Rotel RA-6000 Diamond Series Integrated Amplifier

Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile

Outstanding Product Award – Hi-fi News

Passion, Performance, and Power

The Rotel Diamond Series RA-6000 Integrated Amplifier celebrates 60-years of Rotel heritage and tradition, delivering performance, passion, and value synonymous with the brand’s iconic Japanese heritage. The RA-6000 supports an exceptional array of modern and legacy sources with a wide range of inputs. These include stereo RCA (x 3), XLR, Moving Magnet phono stage for vinyl fans, aptX™ HD and AAC wireless Bluetooth, Coaxial (x 3), Optical (x 3), and asynchronous PC-USB inputs.

"Recommended Component" Honors

Stereophile honored the RA-6000 by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2024.

According to Stereophile,"The RA-6000 let recordings sound like themselves, open and clear with no issues to distract listeners. 'It was a joy,' [John Atkinson] wrote, adding that in his system, 'the RA-6000 played LPs even better than CDs—and that's saying a lot.'"

Additionally, Stereophile's Herb Reichert calls the RA-6000 <"a well-built, timeless-looking, solid-sounding tour-de-force that should serve its users very well for decades. Bravo, Rotel! Here's to 60 more years as a family-owned business!"

Outstanding Product Award

The RA-6000 snagged an Outstanding Product Award from England's Hi-fi News magazine.

"Anniversary products sometimes offer little more than a new colour or a lavish finish, but this is certainly not the case with Rotel's Diamond Series," notes Jamie Biesemans. VThe RA-6000 is a powerful, yet refined-sounding amplifier with all the trimmings, and it's accompanied by an equally good CD spinner with an excellent DAC. You might want to add a streamer, but otherwise this is a superb set which can drive just about everything."

"A Ballet-Dancing Beast"

"Individually, the DT-6000 [CD player] is a flexible and highly resolving digital do-it-all with remarkable CD playback; the RA-6000 is a ballet-dancing beast, breaking zero sweats while man-handling the speakers like the artist intended. It blooms, it bites, but most importantly it bows down before the recorded music," observes Duncan Taylor, The Music Room, August 26, 2022.

"This is one of the best integrated amps I’ve ever heard (and I’ve heard hundreds), and it’s for sure one of the best CD players (again– Rotel’s thirty-second design) I’ve ever used, and they both bestow honor on their high-tech makers with the gift for longevity."

"One of the Best"

"The Rotel RA-6000 absolutely deserves to be considered one of the best integrated amplifier-DACs… [at its] price point," notes Roger Kanno, SoundStage! Hi-Fi, February 1, 2023. "It offers a ton of performance and flexibility for the money. This new Diamond Series RA-6000 really takes Rotel’s classic amplification products to the next level of performance; updated, but still maintaining their familiar, classic look, and coming in at a price below that of Rotel’s highly regarded Michi products."

Big, Robust Power

The RA-6000 delivers more than enough power to fill large spaces with beautiful music. Conveniently packaged in casework graced with elegant Diamond Series industrial design, the RA-6000 delivers 350 watts of robust, Class AB output power into 4 ohm speakers.

An in-house manufactured toroidal transformer feeds dedicated power to all critical circuits utilizing high efficiency, low ESR slit-foil smoothing capacitors delivering an abundance of ripple free, reserve power and current with exceptional control of rich, deep bass energy.

Low-Noise Performance

The RA-6000 features low-noise circuitry so that you hear the music rather than interference that can muddy sound quality. Physical and electrical isolation techniques are utilized in the digital and high gain amplifier circuits, reducing noise in the highly sensitive analog stages further lowering the noise floor and reducing distortion.

Catering to Digital Sources

Digital sources are processed via a premium 32-bit/384kHz Texas Instruments Digital-Analog converter extracting the finest of details portrayed on an immersive sound stage. Coaxial and Optical inputs support 24-bit/192kHz PCM audio. The PC-USB input renders up to 32-bit/384kHz high resolution music files, unfolds and renders MQA and MQA Studio, and is fully certified Roon Tested for the highest compatibility with Roon software.

Convenience Features

Front panel controls, a back-lit IR remote control and 2-line display provide intuitive operation of the unit. Ethernet, RS232,12V trigger and external remote input ensure simplified integration with all popular control systems.

The RA-6000 is available in your choice of a black or silver finish.

Product Features

Integrated amp for analog and digital sources
Balanced and single-ended analog inputs
2 x 350 Watts of robust Class AB power, 4 Ohms
Texas Instruments premium 32-bit/384kHz DAC
Built-in MM phono preamp
Certified Roon Tested
Supports MQA and MQA Studio
Inputs: stereo RCA (x 3), XLR, Moving Magnet phono stage, aptX™ HD and AAC wireless Bluetooth, Coaxial (x 3), Optical (x 3), and asynchronous PC-USB
Back-lit IR remote control
2-line display provide intuitive operation
Ethernet port
RS232,12V trigger
External remote input

Product Specs

Maximum Power Output: 350 watts/ch (4 ohms)
Continuous Power Output: 200 watts/ch (8 ohms)
Total Harmonic Distortion: < 0.0075%
Intermodulation Distortion: < 0.03% (60 Hz : 7kHz, 4:1)
Frequency Response: Phono Input 20 Hz - 20k Hz, 0 ± 0.5 dB; Line Level Inputs 10 Hz - 100k Hz, 0 ± 0.5 dB
Damping Factor: 600 (20 Hz - 20 kHz, 8 ohms)
Input Sensitivity / Impedance: Phono Input (MM) 5.2 mV / 47k ohms; Line Level Inputs (RCA) 340 mV / 5.6k ohms; Line Level Inputs (XLR) 540 mV / 100k ohms
Input Overload: Phono Input (MM) 52 mV; Line Level Inputs (RCA) 3.5 V; Line Level Inputs (XLR) 4.5 V
Preamplifier Output / Impedance: 1.9 V / 100 ohms
Signal to Noise Ratio (IHF A-weighted): Phono Input (MM) 80 dB; Line Level Inputs 103 dB
Digital to Analog Converters: Texas Instruments
Digital Section Frequency Response: 10 Hz - 90k Hz (0 ± 2 dB, Max)
Digital Section Signal to Noise Ratio: (IHF A-weighted) 102 dB
Digital Section Input Sensitivity/Impedance: 0 dBfs / 75 ohms
Digital Section Preamplifier Output Level: 1.43 V (at -20 dB)
Coaxial/Optical Digital Signals: SPDIF LPCM (up to 24-bit / 192k Hz)
PC-USB: USB Audio Class 2.0 (up to 32-bit / 384k Hz) (Driver installation required); Support MQA and MQA Studio (up to 24-bit / 384k Hz); Roon Tested
Power Consumption: 500 watts
Standby Power Consumption: Normal < 0.5 watts; Network Standby < 2 watts
Dimensions: 17" x 5-7/8" x 16"
Weight: 41.5 lb.

Product Warranty

Parts & Labor

5 Years

Rotel Warranty Information

Product Manual

	Rotel RA-6000 Owner's Manual (PDF Format)

	Rotel RA-6000 Information Sheet (PDF Format)

Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile

"The RA-6000 let recordings sound like themselves, open and clear with no issues to distract listeners. 'It was a joy,' [John Atkinson] wrote, adding that in his system, 'the RA-6000 played LPs even better than CDs—and that's saying a lot.'"

- Stereophile, March 15, 2024

Outstanding Product Award – Hi-fi News

"Anniversary products sometimes offer little more than a new colour or a lavish finish, but this is certainly not the case with Rotel's Diamond Series. The RA-6000 is a powerful, yet refined-sounding amplifier with all the trimmings, and it's accompanied by an equally good CD spinner with an excellent DAC. You might want to add a streamer, but otherwise this is a superb set which can drive just about everything."

- Jamie Biesemans, Hi-Fi News, September 8, 2022

"The Rotel RA-6000 absolutely deserves to be considered one of the best integrated amplifier-DACs… [at its] price point. It may lack a couple of features, the most notable being a room-correction system, but if you don’t want or don’t need room correction, it offers a ton of performance and flexibility for the money. This new Diamond Series RA-6000 really takes Rotel’s classic amplification products to the next level of performance; updated, but still maintaining their familiar, classic look, and coming in at a price below that of Rotel’s highly regarded Michi products."

- Roger Kanno, SoundStage! Hi-Fi, February 1, 2023

"...a well-built, timeless-looking, solid-sounding tour-de-force that should serve its users very well for decades. Bravo, Rotel! Here's to 60 more years as a family-owned business!"

- Herb Reichert, Stereophile, February 2023

"Individually, the DT-6000 [CD player] is a flexible and highly resolving digital do-it-all with remarkable CD playback; the RA-6000 is a ballet-dancing beast, breaking zero sweats while man-handling the speakers like the artist intended. It blooms, it bites, but most importantly it bows down before the recorded music."

"This is one of the best integrated amps I’ve ever heard (and I’ve heard hundreds), and it’s for sure one of the best CD players (again– Rotel’s thirty-second design) I’ve ever used, and they both bestow honor on their high-tech makers with the gift for longevity."

- Duncan Taylor, The Music Room, August 26, 2022

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