The L-509Z is Luxman’s new flagship built-in amplifier, constructing on the legacy of the L-509X, and joins 2022’s L-507Z within the high-performance Z collection.
The esteemed Japanese firm’s new built-in amp produces a claimed 120 watts per channel into an 8 ohm load (or 240W per channel into 4 ohms) and depends upon the model’s patented “LIFES” suggestions engine, first used within the M-10X energy amp after which once more within the C-10X, to this new flagship mannequin. Nonetheless, the L-509Z is the primary to characteristic it in each the ability amplifier and the preamplifier sections.
The L-509Z brings a brand new phono preamp with switchable acquire, accommodating low-output and high-output transferring coil cartridges alongside redesigned tone controls, a seven-segment LED quantity stage show and a mute swap.
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We’re advised that the L-509Z sports activities a redesigned unfavorable suggestions circuit, with the next-gen circuitry providing what Luxman proclaims leads to an “elevated stage of musicality and unprecedented element”. In the meantime, a brand new rotary encoder helps handle the unit’s quantity controls for “smoother and extra exact quantity management than ever earlier than”.
Premiering on the L-509Z, the LECUA-EX is a computerised precision attenuator. Luxman boasts that it delivers meticulous quantity adjustment throughout 88 discrete steps whereas minimising distortion. Moreover, LECUA-EX enhances the expertise by a brand new rotary encoder, that includes a weighted mechanism to allow smoother adjustment with a “high-quality operational really feel”.
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The L-509Z combines excessive energy and linearity because of three-stage Darlington bipolar transistors in a quadruple-paralleled push-pull configuration. The extremely regulated energy provide boasts a large 600 VA EI-type transformer and an array of eight 10,000 µF filter capacitors. The Class AB output stage is conservatively rated at 120W per channel at 8 ohms and 240W p/c at 4 ohms. Furthermore, low-resistance speaker relays and peel-coated circuit boards are all housed inside the unit’s ultra-thick aluminium chassis.
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Across the again, the brand new L-509Z has 4 single-ended RCA line-level inputs and two balanced XLR inputs. Excessive-quality RCA terminals are employed for line-in inputs, and the built-in amp can swap between two pairs of audio system. On the entrance, the L-509Z presents each 4.4mm and 6.3mm headphone jacks.
The unit’s upgraded phono stage helps each transferring magnet and transferring coil cartridges and allows you to swap between high and low MC settings.
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The L-509Z sports activities an LED show for checking quantity stage alongside two conventional analogue energy meters and a pair of rotary management knobs, one for controlling quantity and the opposite for choosing the enter. Additional features, together with speaker choice, mute and three-dial tone management, are discovered on the entrance panel. Lastly, you too can management the L-509Z out of your listening place by way of a provided distant.
The Luxman L-509Z is now accessible to order within the UK at an RRP of £11,000.
