For those who assume you realize luxurious amplifiers, assume once more. Excessive-end audio producer Goldmund is again with one other addition to its tremendous high-end Telos line, this time with the brand new Telos 2800 mono energy amplifier, and its costs are sufficient to present you a nosebleed. We thought the lately unveiled McIntosh MC2.1KW monoblock amp was costly at £59,995 / €64,990 / $50,000, however Goldmund has blown these figures out of the water with a humongous asking worth for the Telos 2800 of £125,000 for a single unit.
At such costs, we’re anticipating critical firepower. Goldmund guarantees that the discharge of the Telos 2800 “marks a milestone in high-fidelity audio”, with a sound that has been engineered to “redefine the requirements of sound high quality and precision”. These are the types of claims we will get excited by.
The Telos 2800 claims to supply a max energy output of 450 Wrms into 8 ohms, with a promised dynamic vary of 110dB inside 22kHz of bandwidth and intensely low noise ground for the inputs, all within the identify of providing immense readability and depth alongside the best way. Central to the luxurious amplifier is a toroidal energy transformer which, alongside a colossal capacitor financial institution, ought to end in main positive aspects in dynamics and the amp’s reactivity.
Higher nonetheless, the Telos is promising important positive aspects in warmth regulation. A brand new warmth sink covers all the rear panel of the hefty 59kg amp, and this bigger floor space permits extra warmth to be dissipated.
On the rear panel you will discover single RCA and balanced XLR inputs alongside a digital enter and output RCA connectors. The amp can also be fitted with two output binding posts and a single Goldmund speaker 4B-type connector.
Goldmund does not actually do “reasonably priced”, with the 2800 becoming a member of the outrageously high-end Telos 8800 energy amp that itself boasts a price ticket of £350,000 (£700,000 if you need a pair). That nearly softens the blow for the brand new Telos 2800, as this mono energy amp will set you again a relatively modest (!) £125,000 / $140,000 for a single unit, or £250,000 / $280,000 for a pair of monoblocks. Cut price!
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