Marantz Cinema 30 is everything you want from a home cinema amplifier

There’s a brand new reference AV amplifier on the town, and it comes from Marantz. The most recent in its Cinema collection of excessive efficiency residence theatre separates, the Cinema 30 combines leading edge processing with a slick new design.

Accessible in black or silver gold finishes, the brand new flagship boasts Marantz’s iconic porthole show and utilises a multi-layer chassis, incorporating in depth use of copper. The fascia options selectable aspect illumination and a fold down entrance panel. It comes with a backlit aluminium distant management.

Constructed and tuned in Shirakawa, Japan, the Cinema 30 is an eleven channel design with the choice of 13.4 channel processing when coupled with further amplification; all digital and analogue alerts move via the Marantz HDAM SA-2 pre-amplifier stage.

The mannequin employs the most recent Analog Gadgets SHARC twin DSP chipset, coupled to state-of-the-art 32-bit ESS Sabre DACs with devoted jitter discount. Codec help is common, and covers Dolby Atmos,, DTS:X Professional and Auro 3D. It’s additionally IMAX Enhanced licensed.

All seven HDMI inputs can help 8k video, and 4k 120Hz sources. There are additionally copious analogue and digital inputs. The Cinema 30 makes use of HEOS, for multiroom audio and high-resolution streaming.

There’s additionally Spotify Join, AirPlay 2 with HomePod, and Bluetooth onboard. Voice assistant help cowl each Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

Set up is achieved utilizing Audyssey MultEQ XT32 superior room optimization, though there’s the choice for Dirac Reside calibration with Dirac Reside Bass Management. This permits for low frequency integration for as much as 4 unbiased subwoofers.

Accessible now, the Marantz Cinema 30 retails for £3,900 ($4500 / €4,500).