Perreaux 200iX

STREO AMPLIFIERS AMPLIFIER OF THE YEAR $8000-$12,000 Perreaux is a New Zealand company, founded by Peter Perreaux in 1974 and now owned by electronics engineer Edwin Nieman, also the founder of the award-winning Dunedin-based Kamahi Electronics, where he heads a team of nearly two dozen electronics engineers. Nieman continues to champion Perreaux’s preferred use of MOSFETs in its amplifiers for their speed, stability and valve-like qualities — despite their cost and the complexity of power supply required to operate them efficiently. Perreaux’s model numbers indicate their power into 8 ohms, here 200W (with THD+N below 0.005%, typically 0.002% @1kHz). The 200iX provides four line-level inputs (one balanced), one mc/mm phono input, and six digital inputs: two coaxial, one USB, one AES/EBU, and two optical. Plus Bluetooth, for which a small…

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