Mark Levinson Nº 5805

STREO AMPLIFIERS AMPLIFIER OF THE YEAR OVER Mark Levinson the man now designs at Daniel Hertz in Switzerland, but Mark Levinson the brand continues to thrive under Harman International, where it lives alongside Arcam, JBL, Lexicon and Revel (to mention only some), maintaining the original ML tradition of sound as ‘heard by musicians’. To that end, signals presented to the No. 5805 amplifier’s three line-level (two unbalanced, one balanced) and one phono inputs stay analogue right through to the loudspeaker terminals, along the way being amplified first by proprietary ‘PurePath’ circuitry (patents pending), which is dual mono, completely discrete and direct-coupled, and then by an equally dual-mono output stage configured as Class-A/B with two high-speed driver transistors operating in Class-A and six 260V 15A output transistors. All this transistorised muscle…

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