Marantz MA500 Monoblock

[joeinid]

Originally Posted by miketuason

Update: I bought another one from Jeffrey Behr which makes a total of three now. Each of my rear channel now has its own MA500. The sound is superb, The MA500 really are made for high-end HT system, I highly recommend it.

Great to read Mike! Glad you are happy.

[BVLDARI]

Originally Posted by miketuason

Just pick one up today and going to use it for my center channel, Has anyone have experience with this amp and are they descent amp? Thanks.

I have three MA700 and four MA500. I've been very pleased with them for many many years now. Two of the MA500 are bridged and for a while were driving a 2 ohm subwoofer with ZERO issues. Rock solid amps overall. I had one issue with one of them a long time ago, can't even remember what. More recently one of the RCA jackets was coming off but that was an easy enough DIY fix.

But will likely need to upgrade in the future because my current speakers may enjoy a few more watts...

[miketuason]

Yes, after owning this for a while now and have been using it for my home theater quite a lot that, I am now learning that these mono blocks are truly pretty solid and does puts out great sound quality.