Yamaha Audio products from the past? vs. more current.

When in doubt it’s hard to go wrong with Yamaha. 

I have a Yamaha AV receiver for the livingroom theater set up.
Bought a pair of vandesteen 5’s and thought I could just plug them in like any normal speaker.
Nope. Needs a pre in and out for the separate external bypass.
So I’m looking at a local Yamaha MX1000 power amp to keep the same brand.
Apparently they have a following.
http://legendaryamps.com/latest.html

and

http://legendaryamps.com/WhyYamaha.html

Fan here of the MX1000 here and Yamaha in general.    MX1000 works flawlessly and is my favorite amp but planning total rebuild in the near future to take it to my end and beyond.    

I've been selectively buying high end Yamaha for the last 15 odd years and I'd say being well built using money no option parts selection, made for very respectable then as well as now performance ! The amps. in my main system are from their pro series, pc2002m, pc4002m, and pc5002m.
Their powering large inefficient speakers dropping to a 11/2-2 ohm load with no clipping just clean powerful sound.The cost to achieve that today ? 
We're happy.
Cheers

Yes always good stuff, sometimes hit or miss as we I'll  aduio companies...