Wednesday, 30 April 2014 13:36
Marley - New headphone amplifier from M2Tech
Written by Karl Erik SyltheItalian M2Tech introduces new headphone amplifier with some properties that provide flexibility.
The town of Pisa in Italy is of course best known for its tower. However, this medium-sized city in the northwestern corner of Tuscany holds more. HiFi manufacturer M2Tech is best known for its DACs, but have a few more cards up its sleeve. The most recent of these is the headphone amplifier Marley.
Marly has two sets of stereo amplifiers on board. These can be used to drive two sets of single-ended headphones with each volumkkpntroll, or they can be run in balanced bridge mode, providing 6dB increase in output.
Headphone Amplifier also has two inputs with input selector, and regular pre-out for connection to external power amplifiers. There is also a separate rec-out.
Volume happening in 1dB steps from-78dB to 0dB. There is also a mute that lowers the level of 20dB.
The effect is quite remarkable to be headphone amplifier - 4W RMS per. channel into 8 ohms makes you ablo to drive highly sensitive speakers.
Manufacturer Specifications:
Connections.
Inputs: 2 x line in on female, gold-plated RCAs
Outputs: 2 x 1/4 "stereo jack (single-ended)
4-pole female XLR (balanced)
pre out on female, gold-plated RCAs
lose out on female, gold-plated RCAs
Supply inputs: 5.5/2.1mm jack, tip positive on
4-pole male XLR for 15 V/-15V / +5 V
Output voltage: 8Vrms max (single-ended), 16Vrms max (balanced)
Output power : 4Wrms pc @ 8 Ohms
Input impedance: 40kOhms
Gain: 12dB (single-ended) / 18dB (balanced)
Input sensitivity: 2Vrms in for max output
Frequency response: 3Hz-80kHz (+0 /-0.5dB)
SNR: 120dB (8Vrms out, 1 kHz, A-weighted)
THD + N: 0.003% (2Vrms out, 1kHz)
Volume range 0 to-78dB plus total mute (1 dB steps)
Muting:-20dB
Balance range: + /-6dB (1dB steps)
Auto switch-off; disabled, 0:02 240 minutes (30 minutes steps)
Supply: 15VDC
Power consumption: 30VA
Size: 200x200x50mm (wxdxh)
Weight: 2kg
Price in Europe: 1.250 Euro.
Norwegian distributor: Mono AS
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