I checked on the back of my Denon and it was made in Japan, which isn't bad. The specs show 200 watts into 8 ohm, 400 into 4 ohm and 600 into 2 ohm. I listened to mine this afternoon on a nice 2 channel system and it sounded great, dead quiet, great dynamics and imaging. These were the top of the line stereo amps in the late 90's and cost over $1000, a lot for an amp at that time. They have volume controls on the cd input but the normal input sounds better to me.