Is Rotel stereo good?
Rotel is still good, perhaps not where it was, but at it’s price point it is competitive. Having said that, most electronics (today) are pretty good and the quality to price ratio keeps rising.
Why is it called Rotel?
Ro-Tel gets its name from its inventor, Carl Roettele, who started a family canning company in Elsa, Texas, in the 1940s. It is commonly used in making chile con queso, particularly with Velveeta, and in King Ranch chicken.
Where is Rotel manufactured?
China
It’s Kao and lead electronics designer Daren Orth who show us around Rotel’s manufacturing plant in Zhuhai’s free trade zone. In pursuit of lower labour costs, Rotel first moved production from Japan to Taiwan in the eighties and then to China a decade later. In Shenzhen they rent a multi-floored factory.
What’s the difference between the rc-1550 and RC-1580?
As mentioned in the CM9/RB-1582 thread in the Speakers forum I recently demoed these two preamps from Rotel. The RC-1550 costs about £500 and the RC-1580 costs £1000. The RC-1550 is a slighty simpler model with one aux input instead of three and with rotary input selector knobs rather than discrete buttons as on…
What kind of audio does the Rotel rsx-1550 have?
The Rotel RSX-1550 is a 5x 100W receiver featuring all of the latest audio standards. You get the newest codecs — barring the two-month-old Pro Logic IIz — including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
Is the Rotel 1500 a good preamp?
I’ve not heard these but the Rotel 1500 series has a very good reputation. And I don’t think they are so very different from each other, one is just a better more advanced version of the other. The key features of the better pre-amp are – • Discrete, differential input stages, including CD, Tuner, and 2 AUX inputs
How many line-level inputs does the rcrc-1550 have?
RC-1550 features six line-level inputs in addition to a phono input for moving magnet cartridges. A convenient contour control allows easy and repeatable timbre adjustments.