AV Receiver Reviews

Five channels driven continuously into 8-ohm loads:
0.1% distortion at 53.9 watts
1% distortion at 63.8 watts

Seven channels driven continuously into 8-ohm loads:
0.1% distortion at 53.0 watts
1% distortion at 63.6 watts

Analog frequency response in Pure Direct mode:
–0.07 dB at 10 Hz
–0.02 dB at 20 Hz
–0.07 dB at 20 kHz
–2.79 dB at 50 kHz

Analog frequency response with stereo signal processing:
–0.14 dB at 10 Hz
–0.05 dB at 20 Hz
–0.14 dB at 20 kHz
–66.30 dB at 50 kHz

This graph shows that the RX- A1000’s left channel, from CD input to speaker output with two channels driving 8-ohm loads, reaches 0.1 percent distortion at 121.0 watts and 1 per- cent distortion at 135.3 watts. Into 4 ohms, the amplifier reaches 0.1 per- cent distortion at 177.8 watts and 1 percent distortion at 213.9 watts.

Response from the multichannel input to the speaker output measures –0.07 decibels at 10 hertz, –0.02 dB at 20 Hz, –0.02 dB at 20 kilohertz, and –2.82 dB at 50 kHz. THD+N from the CD input to the speaker output was less than 0.007 percent at 1 kHz when driving 2.83 volts into an 8-ohm load. Crosstalk at 1 kHz driving 2.83 volts into an 8-ohm load was –97.43 dB left to right and –93.41 dB right to left. The signal-to-noise ratio with an 8- ohm load from 10 Hz to 24 kHz with “A” weighting was –108.41 dBrA.

From the Dolby Digital input to the loudspeaker output, the left channel measures –0.03 dB at 20 Hz and –0.01 dB at 20 kHz. The center channel mea- sures –0.03 dB at 20 Hz and –0.01 dB at 20 kHz, and the left surround channel measures –0.03 dB at 20 Hz and –0.03 dB at 20 kHz. From the Dolby Digital input to the line-level output, the LFE channel is +0.15 dB at 20 Hz when referenced to the level at 40 Hz and reaches the upper 3-dB down point at 94 Hz and the upper 6-dB down point at 116 Hz.—MJP