The brand new CD 50n community CD participant and matching Mannequin 50 built-in amplifier are the most recent fashions in an ever-expanding lineup of stereo gear that now contains 5 CD gamers and 7 built-in amps. Every of the brand new fashions sports activities the distinctive faceplate design Marantz has transitioned to over the previous couple of years and sells for $1,800.
Marantz hails the CD 50n “some of the versatile CD gamers ever created” — one combining a high-quality disc participant and streamer in a single part that includes 32-bit ESS Sabre digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and Marantz-designed filters that serve all types of digital audio, whether or not arriving over the web or originating on CD or SACD.
Streaming is dealt with by way of the app-controllable Heos streaming platform developed by Marantz sister-brand Denon. Along with Wi-Fi-based high-resolution streaming, the participant helps streaming by way of Bluetooth and AirPlay 2 and supplies prepared entry to Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Prime Music, Pandora, and different music providers. It’s additionally licensed as Roon Prepared to be used with the favored subscription-based music administration software program and helps voice management by way of Amazon Alexa.
The CD 50n is supplied with a beneficiant set of connections that features a headphone output with its personal devoted quantity management, mounted and variable analog RCA outputs, optical and coaxial digital inputs and outputs, a S/PDIF enter that helps resolutions as much as 24 bits/192 kHz, an ARC-enabled HDMI enter for TV hookups, two USB ports, and RS-232 and Ethernet connectors. Excessive-resolution audio can also be supported by way of USB (as much as PCM 32 bits/384 kHz and DSD 256).
A Excellent Mate
That includes an all-analog design, the Mannequin 50 attracts inspiration from its greater finish sibling, the Mannequin 40n built-in amplifier that netted a Sound & Imaginative and prescient Prime Decide final yr. Just like the 40n, the Mannequin 50 boasts a high-current Class A/B energy part rated to ship 70 watts/channel and that includes a “substantial toroidal energy provide and thoroughly laid out inner sign path topography designed to reduce impedance losses.”
The amplifier additionally incorporates the most recent iteration of Marantz’s low-distortion HDAM (Hyper Dynamic Amplifier Module) expertise and options front-panel bass and treble controls along with six analog inputs, a moving-magnet phono enter, and stereo preamp output.
For extra info on the Marantz CD 50n, go to Marantz.com. Click on right here for extra on the Mannequin 50 built-in amplifier.
