Music came from vinyl, and its meagre output was such that plugging it directly into a power amplifier would have produced all the power, as Captain Blackadder once said, of an asthmatic ant. A preamp sat in front of the power amp, because without it there was no way of getting music from your sound source. In the olden days, when mammoths roamed the wild planes and Duran Duran were at number one, its job was clear. If you're looking for a 'Swiss Army Knife' of an audio product, this won't disappoint.In today's preamplifier world, you've got to be all things to all men - and Parasound's P5 attempts precisely this, says David PriceĪ preamplifier’s life is not a happy one. "The P 5 seemingly goes out of its way to throw up as much detail as it can. What's not to like?.This is about as fine a $1095 preamp as I can imagine in 2014. Very well made and complete for the price. And with the vast bulk of my digital music collection, I simply adore listening to it." I just adore touching the thing, to be quite frank about it. Overall, I adore the ergonomics of the P 5, I love its twist knob input selector, I love its volume knob. exceptional imagine and soundstage capabilities. captures and delivers it wonderfully, with sumptuous richness and oodles of warmth. The P 5 does a wonderful job of resolving fine details in music. "A feature-packed product with nearly everything the digital and analog audiophile could hope for all wrapped up in one pretty package. This unit is absolutely state-of-the-art and technological to its core." "This amazing group of equipment best demonstrates the audio industry's present state of the art. "My advice is simple, just get one, I recommend it strongly!" ".to merely say it's a bargain competing with preamps costing many times more is not giving it enough praise." "Calling the new Parasound Halo P 5 simply a preamplifier is an understatement." And that's true no matter whether you buy the P 5, the A 23, or both." "Parasound is one of the very few companies in the world that has a reputation for state-of-the-art sound quality and engineering as well as a reputation for delivering superb value for money, and in looking at this duo, it's easy to see why: buy this pair and you'll be getting an awful lot of power and incredible performance for what, quite frankly, are ridiculously low prices. MC > 67 dB, input shorted, IHF A-weighted MM > 80 dB, input shorted, IHF A-weighted Phono Stage Sensitivity / Input Impedance Rack mounting adapter available (Model HRA 2 sold separately).0.5w standby power consumption meets Energy Star spec.Remote control with discrete on/off power buttons.Premium motor-driven Alps potentiometer volume control.Automatic turn on with 12 V trigger or AC power.12 V output to trigger power amplifiers and other devices.Rear panel IR input and IR loop output jacks.Headphone jack with 10 ohm output impedance.Bass & treble controls with defeat from remote or front panel.1 balanced XLR and 2 RCA subwoofer outputs.Balanced XLR and RCA left and right outputs.Front panel Aux input with automatic +12 dB gain stage.Phono input for MM & MC cartridges with 100 Ohm or 47k Ohm load.1 XLR balanced input (parallels Input 5 RCA jacks).Home theater bypass input for surround sound integration.Analog Bass management with high and low pass crossovers.Incoming jitter on all three digital inputs is significally attenuated with an effective clock recovery system.Coax and optical accept all sampling rates up to 192 kHz, 24-bit.Burr-Brown PCM1798 DAC with USB, Optical and Coax inputs.
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