Introduced final September, the reference fashions in Marantz’s Cinema Sequence at the moment are accessible in Europe. The AV 10 is a 15.4-channel, 8K-supporting AV preamp/processor that arrives alongside its 16-channel, 200-watt energy amplifier companion, the AMP 10. Collectively, the dynamic duo promise to enter house owners right into a heady state of AV reverie.
Priced at £6000 / $7000 / €7000 a chunk, the AV 10 and AMP 10 are the ultimate fashions within the newly launched Cinema Sequence to be unleashed unto the world, becoming a member of the extra inexpensive Cinema 40, 50, 60 and 70 AVRs which have rolled out over earlier weeks.
Unsurprisingly, the flagship fashions characterize the head of the corporate’s AV providing from each a options and, fingers crossed, efficiency perspective. The AV 10 is kitted out with 15.4 channels of output and processing that may decode Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, IMAX Enhanced and Auro 3D, with assist for as much as a 9.1.6 Atmos configuration. There’s Audyssey’s MultEQ XT32 room correction onboard, in addition to the choice to improve to the skilled Dirac Reside utility.
The AV 10’s beneficiant seven HDMI inputs are all 8K-compatible, and there’s a collection of digital and analogue (together with phono) inputs for hooking up any Blu-ray participant, video games console, turntable or one other audio supply you might want to.
Talking of audio sources, the AV 10 additionally integrates the HEOS multi-room music streaming platform, which is a gateway to companies comparable to Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music and Deezer.
The AV 10 naturally utilises Marantz’s discrete HDAM and present suggestions amplification, making it the perfect companion for the AMP 10, which can also be constructed on its HDAM-SA2 know-how and options newly developed Class D amplification to take its efficiency to greater heights.
Whereas providing 16 channels of amplification, the AMP 10 is in no way treasured relating to energy. It delivers a powerful (and greater than you’ll probably ever want) 200 watts per channel into 8 ohms, or 400 watts per channel into 4 ohms. Marantz says the AMP 10 options its “most superior and refined amplifier structure”.
Marantz is flying the flag for customisation right here, too. Not solely can the 16 channels be operated independently, however channel pairs can be switched into bi-amp mode to separate frequency bands from one another, and even into bridged mono mode if anybody ever wanted to – yikes – harness the AMP 10’s highest output.
The Marantz Cinema Sequence acquired fairly the launch get together, with a listening session attended by its companion Max Richter on the famed Sheats-Goldstein Residence in Los Angeles, no much less – nevertheless it’s now winged its manner from LA to Europe (and, for that matter, doesn’t require potential house owners to roll out any pink carpet for its arrival into their residence).
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