Lyngdorf Audio has launched its strongest amplifier but at CEDIA 2023 – and boy, is there energy on faucet right here! The brand new MXA-8400 energy amplifier combines the Danish firm’s PowerPerfect energy provide design with Purifi’s Eigentakt Class D amplification to ship a mighty eight channels of 400 watts (into 4 ohms in two-channel mode).
The multi-channel amplifier enhances the model’s current MP-40 2.1 and MP-60 2.1 processors, which may decode as much as sixteen output channels for Dolby Atmos and DTS-X AV setups. “The MXA-8400 was designed with Lyngdorf MP multichannel processor house owners and residential cinema lovers in thoughts, who made an intentional option to improve from built-in AVRs to best-in-class separates,” says Roland Hoffmann of Lyngdorf Audio.
Purifi’s Eigentakt know-how – additionally present in a lot of different amplifiers, most notably by NAD – options patented error correction for “extraordinarily low” distortion, with the amplifier’s sonic aim being to provide “extremely impartial sound efficiency, with negligible audible noise” at any frequency and quantity.
Lyngdorf’s newest energy provide has been specifically designed to deal with the MXA-8400’s mixed 3.2 kilowatts of output energy (and even increased peak energy), even when all the channels are pushed. The design utilises channel balancing, filtering and several other safety techniques in an effort to beat what the corporate believes to be a restrict of many multi-channel fashions.
The output channels are bridgeable in pairs, with energy rankings as much as 800 watts per channel for 4 channels (into eight ohms in bridge mode).
Enter rely is fairly beneficiant too, with the MXA-8400’s rear panel accommodating 4 pairs of XLRs.
Following its launch at CEDIA this week, manufacturing for the Lyngdorf Audio MXA-8400 energy amplifier (£7999 / AU$16,500) will start on the firm’s amenities in Skive, Denmark, with availability commencing in November.
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