Audio Analogue Crescendo ‘AirTech’ Integrated Amplifier – Silver

A high quality Integrated Amplifier from well-regarded Italian specialist Audio Analogue. This is the final ‘AirTech’ version of the Crescendo Integrated and offers a significant performance uplift from the original. It is in very good condition, with just a couple of tiny blemishes – please see photographs. It comes professionally packaged with remote control unit, and as always has our standard three month warranty.
Audio Analogue Say….
The Crescendo Integrated Amplifier is the first amplifier in our catalogue to enter Audio Analogue’s world, characterized by a very high value for money and with absolutely amazing performances for the price range of the product, is definitely a reference for its category. The Crescendo Integrated Amplifier is in fact designed according to philosophies “true high end” in all its parts. In designing Audio Analogue, as always, did not bet only to the electrical specifications, but we also worked mainly on sound and in collaboration with Airtech, the Crescendo integrated amplifier has further evolved: internal wiring made with 7N OCC copper, the same used for the prestigious AIRTECH cables, components of even higher quality and especially a few simple tweaks in the right places, yield a surprising musicality for equipment of this type. In addition to the sound performance improvements, it was designed a new aluminium front panel, always clean design and straightforward, but thicker and with exclusive workmanship.
The Crescendo Integrated Amplifier has also been designed to be extremely versatile both in terms of inputs / outputs that feature, it is equipped in fact of 5 Line Inputs in the back panel and 1 Line Input on the front panel, REC OUT, headphone output on the front panel, the line input 5 can be configured to bypass mode allowing you to easily place the Crescendo Integrated Amplifier inside an AV system. In this configuration the Crescendo Integrated Amplifier can drive the front speakers, increasing the overall quality of system. The volume scale can be selected on the base of the sensitivity of the speakers, there are 4 different scales, three of which were designed for different sensitivities of the speakers and the fourth consists of 79 steps of 1dB each for a maximum scale precision. Balance function. Trigger-In input to be switched-on by a 12VDC trigger signal.
Specifications:
Channels: 2
Input Impedance: 40 kOhm
Power on 8 Ω load: 50 W @ 0.05% THD + N
Power on 4 Ω load: 80 W @ 0.05% THD + N
Line Gain: 6 dB
Power Amp Gain: 27 dB
Frequency Response (Att. 0dB, -3dB band): 150 kHz
Input Noise (Band limits 0 Hz – 80 kHz/A-weighted): < -100 dBV
Signal to Noise Ratio: > 100 dB
Dimensions: 445 (W) x 390 (D) x 81 (H) mm
Weight: 10.5 kg