Arcam is celebrating its 50th year by launching two new products.
The A50 Signature integrated amp takes the top spot in the brand’s Radia Series, created in collaboration with Arcam co-founder John Dawson.
It’s the brand’s first amplifier to implement Arcam’s Class G architecture in fully dual mono, with each channel built as completely discrete amplifier sections. This translates to each side getting its own PCB, output stage, Class G lifter stages, power regulation, and transformer windings.
Inside the chassis this is borne out with a centrally located power supply and carefully separated signal paths for analogue, digital, and power domains.
The rear panel layout also mirrors this approach, with speaker terminals placed at opposite ends of the chassis.
Power output comes in at 2 × 150W (8Ω), while its digital conversion is handled by an ESS ES9039Q2M DAC chip, operating in a fully differential configuration.
This is then supported by an ESS reference voltage regulator to serve digital inputs across HDMI eARC/ARC, USB-C audio, optical and coaxial, alongside analogue. There’s also two-way Bluetooth with Snapdragon Sound (lossless-capable) and Auracast support on its menu, alongside analogue inputs.
Joining this is the new CD25 reference silver disc spinner, being Arcam’s first design since its FMJ D33 to adopt a dual mono DAC architecture, and the first to implement ESS Hyperstream 4 DAC technology.
The A50 Signature costs £2,499 while the CD25 costs £1,499, with both products making their global debut at High End Vienna.
Visit Arcam to find out more.
