The Momentum MxV is “D’Agostino’s best-ever built-in mannequin”, boasts 250W/computer and is now accessible in Australia.
The Momentum MxV made debuted at The UK Hello-Fi Present Reside 2023 after its June 2023 US launch, the place we lined the tech specs in additional element. It’s simply recognisable as a Dan D’Agostino Grasp Audio Methods creation thanks in no small half to its use of copper for the heatsinks (copper’s thermal conductivity is 91% better than aluminium) and analogue meters impressed by Swiss watch faces.
The press launch tells listeners to count on a “magnificently muscular but additionally exceptionally nimble” efficiency, which, after our transient time with it in Ascot, we can’t argue in opposition to.
Providing 250W of energy per channel into an 8-ohm load combines with the pliability of elective digital streaming and phono stage modules to type a high-end built-in amplifier that mixes the front-end expertise from the Momentum HD Preamplifier and the facility part of the Momentum S250 MxV Stereo Amplifier, leading to “Momentum Sequence efficiency in a compact framework”.
The Momentum MxV Built-in Amplifier sports activities a devoted audio chassis and a separate energy provide, with the 2 chassis interlocking by means of distinctive thirty-pin 30-amp, gold-plated connectors to eradicate wiring usually used for these functions and the related anomalies that may happen.
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When the modular Momentum MxV Built-in Amplifier is absolutely geared up, its topology is a seamless circuit working in live performance from enter to output. DDMAS tells us that every inside part is very specialised, however figuring out the precise complement of energy provide, management, and audio circuitry getting used collectively affords engineering a imaginative and prescient of the system that’s usually not doable. “Our engineering workforce has taken the inherent advantages of an built-in design and elevated it to a brand new degree of sonic efficiency,” stated Invoice McKieganPresident of Dan D’Agostino Grasp Audio Methods.
The spine of the Momentum MxV Built-in Amplifier is a brand new ultra-quiet 2,000VA linear transformer. This makes use of a novel toroidal winding expertise that delivers better energy output than a equally sized standard transformer, so says DDMAS. This engine drives a virtually 60,000ⲙF capacitor financial institution, leading to 250/500/1,000W energy output into 8/4/2Ω speaker hundreds. The press launch states that inside circuitry filters RF noise from the AC powerline and compensates for uneven energy waveforms and DC on the mains.
The elective digital module vaults the Momentum MxV Built-in into the chopping fringe of at the moment’s digital listening surroundings by including S/PDIF coaxial, optical, and USB-A for legacy digital parts and Ethernet and Wi-Fi for network-based music with PCM alerts as much as 32-bit/192kHz and DSD as much as DSD1024 supported. A devoted iOS D’Agostino DSM app supplies built-in Tidal, Qobuz, and MQA decoding, plus full unit management.
Moreover, the elective phono module provides vinyl playback functionality supporting low output shifting coil cartridges with over 60dB of acquire and loading choices from 100-47k ohms.
Obtainable in silver, black, or custom-painted finishes, each Momentum MxV Built-in Amplifier is hand-built and individually examined in D’Agostino’s Arizona manufacturing unit.
It sells in Australia for $114,995 RRP, whereas the digital and phono modules add $17,995 and $8,995 to the worth, respectively.
