Marantz reveals new PM8006 stereo amplifier

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Due at the end of the year, the PM8006 will cost £1000

With a list of technical highlights that makes it sound like a bank-vault, Marantz's PM8006 is due to go on sale in the UK in December of this year.

There's no word yet on the power or connectivity of this new stereo amp, but what we do know makes it sound like it will be, at the very least, quite heavy.

Its toroidal power transformer is double-shielded. It features solid aluminium heat-sinks, triple bottom-plate and vibration-supressing feet. Even its solid copper speaker terminals are nickel-plated.

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In addition, your £1000 buys a newly designed moving-magnet phono stage equaliser stage and electric volume control for better separation and gain symmetry.

More details will follow when we get them.

MORE: Read all our Marantz reviews

Simon Lucas

Simon Lucas is a technology journalist, with a strong emphasis on the audio/video side of consumer electronics and home entertainment, and has been since 2003. He worked for more than 14 years at What Hi-Fi?, the last six of which were spent as the editor of the magazine and website. Since then he's written for Wired, The Guardian, TechRadar, Stuff, GQ and many more besides. 

In the course of his career he's developed a pretty deep understanding of the way both the publishing and the electronics industries function, as well as the sort of intimate knowledge of audio products (both specific and general) that can make people very wary of him at parties.