This my most and almost overhaul system with the exception of the Rotel preamp. The room is acoustically treated on the first reflections, front wall and rear wall. I am really enjoy it how it sound now.
I have a Rotel 956 AX in excellent shape, I'm the one and only owner, no smoking, it's clean an recently checked out. It's sitting in my den, rarely used.
Thank you Scotandholly for the kind words. This actually is the second Rotel preamp I went through. The first was a RC-970BX for a while and now the 995 an there was a huge difference in quality. The 970 had the split volume channel adjustment.