My favorite music streamer deal of the Black Friday gross sales season has been the Cambridge CXN V2 for £599, however that’s sadly now out of inventory and I would not be stunned if this admittedly higher deal headed the identical manner. The deal in query: the Arcam ST60 for £649 at Peter Tyson due to a £650 low cost making it half worth. Searching for a tremendous-value mid-range streamer to smarten up your hi-fi? Think about it discovered.
The Arcam ST60 received What Hello-Fi? Awards in 2022 and 2021 because the ‘Greatest music streamer £1000-£1500’, the value class above that of the CXN V2. So contemplating the superior-sounding Arcam is barely £50 greater than the out-of-stock CXN this Black Friday, it is not solely an arguably higher deal but in addition maybe the music streamer cut price of the 12 months.
This deal beats the ST60’s earlier greatest low worth of £799 on the identical retailer throughout the Prime Day 2 gross sales again in October. We did not assume that worth might be overwhelmed, nevertheless it has and we might urge anybody out there for a proficient, well-equipped community streamer to learn our five-star Arcam ST60 evaluate and contemplate introducing it to their system.
The Peter Tyson web site notes that inventory is due in ‘late November’ and so ought to be replenished any day now.
So, what’s so good about it? Firstly, the ST60 ticks a number of of the numerous (many) streaming function bins, together with AirPlay 2, GoogleCast and UPnP, so you may wirelessly stream music from a streaming service (Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, Deezer or no matter) or recordsdata saved in your community, with audio assist as much as 32-bit/192kHz and together with MQA. Web radio can also be readily accessible by way of the app, though that is the one space that might be extra streamlined.
Ample bodily connections are onboard too – optical, coaxial and USB inputs, plus coaxial, optical, line-level RCA and balanced XLR outputs.
However whereas the Arcam is one well-spec’d machine, its sound efficiency is the place it actually impresses. In our evaluate, we described it as “confident in its supply – large, full, strong and expressive”.
Basslines are muscular whereas excessive frequencies are properly textured. We discovered the ST60’s full-bodied supply satisfyingly pleasurable, with a rhythmically partaking and dynamically refined sound that is capable of maintain our consideration rapt to no matter music we’re listening to.
It is value noting that Arcam not too long ago launched a ST5 music streamer at £799, however we not too long ago examined it and it is truthful to say that, in contrast to its new amplifiers, it did not blow us away. Whereas just a few years previous now, the ST60 is the higher product and we are able to wholeheartedly advocate it for £650 at Peter Tyson.
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