Building on the legacy of the celebrated STEREO 130, the STEREO 230 is a stereo integrated amplifier that delivers 75 watts continuous per channel into 8 ohms or 115 watts continuous per channel into 4 ohms, while an ARC-compatible HDMI socket ensures top-level sound quality during playback of audio-visual content.
The new LEAK can also be connected to an extensive repertoire of audio sources, from turntables equipped with a moving magnet (MM) cartridge to optical disc players, streamers and even Bluetooth devices.
The purist ethos of the STEREO 230 is reflected in many details of its design, such as the use of JFET transistors in the RIAA equalisation stage of the phono section to ensure full compatibility with the standards set by the audio industry for the playback of vinyl records.
The new LEAK is also equipped with a dedicated headphone amplifier with current feedback topology whose performance is perfectly comparable to the best designs on the market.
The exquisite engineering of the STEREO 230 also manifests itself in an uncompromisingly designed DAC section, using one of the renowned ES9018 Sabre32 Reference 32-bit ESS Technology chips from California-based ESS Technology, which allows the LEAK to exhibit particularly sparkling registers in terms of background noise and dynamic range, both essential parameters in the restitution of both traditional digital content and Hi-Res files.
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bookshelf speakers
A more opulent version of the profound remodeling to which the legendary Sandwich speaker, originally marketed in 1961, has been subjected, the Sandwich 250 is an imposing 3-way/3-speaker bass-reflex monitor that combines 1 textile-covered dome tweeter with 30 mm, 1 midrange driver with 108 mm Sandwich cone and a woofer with 280 mm Sandwich cone.
Reintroduced and carefully redesigned using the lessons of more than six decades of research and development in electroacoustics, the new generation cone that mounts the transducers responsible for reproducing the mid and low frequencies of the spectrum consists of an extremely rigid aluminum coating on the external surfaces and a very thick core, made of a structural foam based on polymethacrylate (PMI), often used by the aerospace and automotive industries.
The tweeter has also been the subject of an intense redesign process, incorporating a rear chamber with internal damping in order to absorb the rear wave of the transducer. This innovation not only isolates the tweeter from the rest of the set, but has the additional benefit of reducing its resonance frequency, something that in turn increases the level of integration of the different areas of the audio spectrum, improving the restitution of harmonics and therefore the capacity for analysis.
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Price per pair.
Option to add specific floor supports to 250 Stands for €749 more.
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