Marantz HD-AMP1
Housed in an elegant compact chassis that occupies just over 1 square foot of desktop or shelf space, the HD-AMP1 digital integrated amplifier features high resolution D/A conversion and compatibility with a wide range of uncompressed high resolution audio formats, including WAV, ALAC, FLAC and AIFF, and is also capable of decoding DSD tracks with compatibility of all 3 DSD sampling frequencies - 2.6/5.2/11.2-MHz (DSD is the audio format of SACD).
The powerful digital amplifier section features cool-running wide bandwidth and wide dynamic range Class D audiophile amplifier technology, delivering 35 watts per channel into 8 ohms and 70 watts per channel into 4 ohms, providing compatibility with the widest range of speaker types and impedances.
Featuring 2 USB ports, 1 on the front and 1 on the back, the HD-AMP1 lets you connect your favorite iDevice or USB drive to the front panel USB port, and your PC or Mac to the rear panel USB-B port to stream your high resolution audio tracks, and it features advanced noise isolation to guard against digital noise from degrading the high resolution sound.
Equipped with Marantz Musical Digital Filtering, our proprietary DSP filter technology, the HD-AMP1 lets you choose from 2 digital filter algorithms so you can precisely tailor the sound to your liking. The reference-class ESS SABRE DAC features 32-bit/384-kHz decoding for the highest resolution and widest dynamic range with today's advanced audiophile hi-res tracks.
The analog sections feature our exclusive HDAM-SA2 modules, including the analog front end block, the D/A converter block and in the dedicated headphone amplifier block.
There are 2 optical and 1 coaxial digital inputs, along with 2 analog inputs, so you can connect the widest range of source components.
The elegant chassis features a solid brushed aluminum front panel along with luxurious woodtone side panels.
Q Acoustics Concept 20
The ‘Concept 20’ is a special loudspeaker whichgoes beyond anything that Q Acoustics has achieved before. It’s abeautifully styled product which we confidently believe delivers alevel of sonic performance previously thought impossible at itsprice point.” To achieve this extraordinary performance, QAcoustics’ design team applied scientific methodology and advancesin technology to address
the problem of cabinet resonance; long recognisedas the single biggest hurdle preventing speaker designersdelivering true ‘high end’ performance at a reasonable price. The‘Concept 20’ proves cabinet resonance need be a problem no longer.*Incorporating a ‘cabinet within a cabinet’ design, its inner andouter enclosures are bound together by a bespoke adhesive whichnever quite sets. This configuration (known as Gelcore™construction) allows the kinetic energy generated by the driveunits within the cabinet to be dispersed as heat and preventingthem colouring and degrading the
speaker’s musical output. Combine this new cabinetdesign with the Concept 20’s advanced, high dynamic, low distortiondrive units and the result is a loudspeaker which, at its price, isnothing short of sensational.
