The Momentum MxV is “D’Agostino’s best-ever built-in mannequin”, boasts 250W/computer and is now obtainable within the UK and Europe.
We now have already skilled the Momentum MxV at its nationwide debut at The UK Hello-Fi Present Dwell 2023 after its June 2023 US launch, the place we coated 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% higher than aluminium) and analogue meters impressed by Swiss watch faces.
The press launch tells listeners to anticipate a “magnificently muscular but additionally exceptionally nimble” efficiency, which, after our temporary time with it in Ascot, we can’t argue towards.
Providing 250W of energy per channel into an 8-ohm load combines with the pliability of non-obligatory digital streaming and phono stage modules to kind a high-end built-in amplifier that mixes the front-end know-how from the Momentum HD Preamplifier and the facility part of the Momentum S250 MxV Stereo Amplifier, leading to “Momentum Collection 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 way of distinctive thirty-pin 30-amp, gold-plated connectors to remove 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 outfitted, its topology is a seamless circuit working in live performance from enter to output. DDMAS tells us that every inner part is extremely specialised, however realizing the precise complement of energy provide, management, and audio circuitry getting used collectively affords engineering a imaginative and prescient of the system that’s sometimes not doable. “Our engineering crew has taken the inherent advantages of an built-in design and elevated it to a brand new stage 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 know-how that delivers higher 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 masses. The press launch states that inner circuitry filters RF noise from the AC powerline and compensates for uneven energy waveforms and DC on the mains.
The non-obligatory digital module vaults the Momentum MxV Built-in into the slicing fringe of right now’s digital listening surroundings by including S/PDIF coaxial, optical, and USB-A for legacy digital elements and Ethernet and Wi-Fi for network-based music with PCM indicators as much as 32-bit/192kHz and DSD as much as DSD1024 supported. A devoted iOS D’Agostino DSM app gives built-in Tidal, Qobuz, and MQA decoding, plus full unit management.
Moreover, the non-obligatory phono module provides vinyl playback functionality supporting low output shifting coil cartridges with over 60dB of achieve and loading choices from 100-47k ohms.
Accessible 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.
The UK RRP is £73,998 inc. VAT, whereas the digital and phono modules add £11,398 and £5,698 to the worth, respectively.
