description
Compact dimensions huge soundstage
Based around our proprietary HyperAmp technoloy this tiny power-house easily drives the big speakers. The output stages and power supply including power capacitors are separated only a few millimetre's from each other. All 500Watts are instantaneous available to really rock the music.
HyperAmp
Our in house developed technology is a huge step forwards in amplifier technology. This advanced technology is based around an advanced feedback system which is super sensitive. Due to this hyper sensitivity it was very difficult implement our simulations into real life audio design. This process took years to fully optimize but the end result is a very sweet yet crystal clear sound with powerful and ultra controlled lows. Never was the bass line so real, the vibrations can almost be counted but certainly be experienced.
The 500watt ultra fast power supply combined with an abundancy of power capacitors guarantee lifelike performance even under the most complex musical passages every detail can be heard, the sound stage and placement remains steadfast and solid under all circumstances, while never becoming harsh or analytic.
Discover your music collection again and replay the tracks when hearing details which were never before so clearly discernable.
specifications
Type: Class D stereo power amplifier.
Analogue inputs: One pair balanced (via XLR jacks).
Analogue outputs: One pair of speaker taps (via 5-way binding posts)
Power output: 100Watt per channel @ 8 Ohm
Bandwidth: DC - 22.5kHz
Sensitivity: 4V(dBu) to rated power.
Distortion: 0.00025%
Signal to Noise Ratio: 130dB
Dimensions: 212 × 212 × 50mm
Weight: 3kg
reviews
The AMP212 was added via its balanced connections to the DAC212SEII. The amplifier needed some break-in time, as expected, as its initial sonic impressions were a bit less than forthcoming. With more hours abound, the 212 started to show some most impressive qualities. The power output was quite immense for its specifications and was able to drive the Stirling monitors and the AN/ED loudspeakers to very high sound levels, even in my somewhat large size room.The music flowed beautifully throughout the auditioning, filling up the soundstage with great depth, extremely powerful bass, and an elegant, protracted decay and reverb time. Image precision was quite good and very well matched to the DAC212SEII.
However, the AMP212 did exhibit enormous levels of musical detail and transparency while it has a mid to low bass response that is as good as they come. So once again, we have a Class D amplifier that arguably, can equal some of the better Class A/B designs. With its balanced inputs, it is immensely quiet and can be considered an extremely “accurate” and neutral amplifier in the way it recreates the essential foundation of all types of music.
Howard Milstein for the Sound Advocate
The next step was to add the AMP212 and see whether this could match the ATC P2. The transition suggested that the 212mm wide amp has a fuller low end and less clarity through the mid, but further listening made me start to wonder if the ATC has the less flat response. Now the soundstage with Sly and Robbie was not only wide but hugely deep with proper dubstep style explosions and remarkable depth and weight to the percussion.
Continued listening had me totally hooked on the DiDiT pairing which is so open and revealing that I have rarely encountered better. It pulls out so much vitality but no glare from Van Morrison’s ‘The Way Young Lovers Do’ [Astral Weeks, Warner], which is still tonally thin but musically as compelling as it’s ever been without vinyl as the medium. Putting on more and more tracks convinced me that this is one of the most open, well separated, and transparent digital systems I’ve enjoyed in a long time.
The AMP212 clearly works very well with PMC Fact.8 speakers; both are very strong when it comes to openness and the grip that the former has on the low end is positively inspiring. Class D has always been good in the bass but I don’t recall this level of nuance and clarity. But it’s helped in no small measure by the DAC sending the signal.
Jason Kennedy for HiFi+
The AMP212 has compact and solid dimensions, as solid and coherent is the scene that it can recreate, without ever becoming hard, flat or scratchy, in short it has an overall liquid but transparent sound, obtained with powerful bass and excellent control.
The DiDiT couple is in synthesis "too much" in many ways: too many, in fact. Too small, too well sounded, too inexpensive to be considered "truly" Hi-End. Especially if you can read the irony.
Giuseppe Castelli for Remusic
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