Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3

Just to complete the thread... I thought about it and the wife was really not digging the separate amp outside the media console look so we ended up with an integrated.

I took the Rotel RA1570 and the RA1592 home and I kept the 1592.

It has been a good match.

Relax and enjoy the music!  Best of luck.

Nice amplifier. I'd use the balanced inputs on that Rotel unless you have a very low output impedance preamp. Enjoy.

very nice choice Joey.  Your Sfs will sing with 200w/ch.  Congrats.

I held onto a RCD-1570 just in case. I'm not a fan of the slot loader but it works. Other than that, garbagio for the past 8 years.

@donjr

Don, I haven't heard the RCD-1570 but did own its predecessor, the highly regarded RCD-1072. Let's just say that it was the worst CD player I've ever owned. I bought it on a whim thinking it would have mated perfectly with my Rotel pre/pro combo at the time. Despite having good build quality and being quite attractive to look at, it never developed any mojo with its accompanying Rotel equipment. The cd player was very dry and uninvolving, with no dynamics or gusto whatsoever. A less expensive Sony (non-ES) player I was using previously had a much nicer and warmer sound than the Rotel. The 1072 just too overly-analytic.

Was your newer 1570 CD player similar to what I experienced?