Having been on this recreation some time, it is uncommon {that a} dwelling hi-fi system comes throughout so agile, meaty, delicate, nuanced, and exquisite that I fear I am going to get mildly irritated when listening to anything.
However that was earlier than a night in central London with Moon’s Montreal-based audio engineers, listening to the brand new North 791 and 761 – a community participant/preamp and energy amp combo that’ll blow your socks off after which some.
And at someplace within the area of $37,000 / £30,000 / AU$55,900, Moon’s 791 and 761 resolution will not be even the top-tier choice throughout the six-strong North assortment – that might be the £50,000 861 energy amp and 891 community participant/preamp mixture. Beneath it, the 641 built-in amp and 681 community participant/DAC will set you again a mere £16,000 or thereabouts… so I am going to take two units, thanks.
I received to take heed to all of this amplification and digital-to-analog conversion, hooked as much as a pair of superb Audiovector Arreté R 6 floor-standing audio system (in African Rosewood Piano, in case you had been questioning, from $37,000 / £25,495 / AU$49,800 and emphatically among the finest stereo audio system I’ve ever shared my Tidal playlists with) and I may’ve stayed in that dwelling cinema room for days. Deciding on additional tracks from Moon’s companion app on an iPad simply to see what this technique revealed in them was a pleasure.
My one remorse of the night is that I did not take heed to Jean Leloup’s Je Joue de la Guitare on this technique, as a result of I would love to listen to the whoops, stifled cheers, and singing of the group behind the feminine backing vocals and Leloup’s inimitably delicate French Canadian soulful vocal stylings. Subsequent time.
For now, you need to know that this proposition has simply been unveiled and the merchandise can be that can be purchased out of your native high-end dealership from October 1, 2023.
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The Moon North 761 has one job to carry out, and it performs it with authority. Throughout my time with it, this energy amplifier effortlessly delivered delicate audio indicators from its preamp to our loudspeakers with each transparency and finesse. (Sure, it may be used with one other, however we have got it with its pure companion – and peak hi-fi is all about compatibility.)
This dual-mono amplifier generates 200W per channel into 8ohms in stereo, doubles into 4ohms, and contains a change to bridge the amps and drive 600W into an 8ohm load as a monoblock. Inside its elegant chassis, you may discover the corporate’s newest MoonLink communication to operate in concord with different Moon merchandise, too.
No doubt, the 761 is an influence amplifier furnished with the technical armory to face up in opposition to the perfect. I like my hi-fi heavy, and this factor weighs a reassuring 36kg. For readability, when mixed with its 19kg 791 preamp companion, the system’s 55kg whole is greater than the 52kg I used to weigh for the majority of my performing profession… finest to get a very good hi-fi rack for it.
The prettiest merchandise on our central London hi-fi rack (aside from the distant – extra on that later) is The Moon 791, which mixes a high-end phono stage (for hooking it as much as among the finest turntables, no matter cartridge it bears) and streaming DAC in a state-of-the-art analog preamplifier.
Along with its arsenal of seven digital inputs (together with HDMI ARC), three analog inputs, and two outputs (independently configured for variable or mounted quantity), and its MDE2 – a re-clocking FPGA and flagship DAC supporting resolutions as much as 32/384 and DSD256 – the 791 can host a USB drive, and options the Roon Prepared MiND2 community participant, supporting Bluetooth and AirPlay 2.
The 4.3’’ shade show may be dimmed (it’s going to auto-dim if you’d like) or turned off. And that BRM-1 distant! I believe Moon’s technical workforce may maintain a three-day seminar on simply the buttery easy motion and 0.1dB accuracy of the assorted quantity dials on its merchandise, however holding that reassuringly heavy oval controller and tweaking the audio ranges is one thing I will not neglect in a rush.
No Mono’s Violence Damaged got here to my ears with as but uncharted inky, somber depths and perception on this technique – and with this type of house across the vocal, you may discover new parts throughout the voices of even your most liked artists.