Classé Delta Pre MkII Preamplifier Comes With Heos Built-In

Classé has apparently constructed upon the unique Delta Pre’s confirmed platform, which we lauded as “a technical tour de drive, with flawless efficiency, dealing with each digital and analogue sources with equal finesse” once we reviewed the Delta PRE Mk II’s pre and energy forebears.

The headline replace sees the Delta PRE MkII in a position to obtain high-resolution digital audio in all kinds of codecs and from a number of totally different digital sources—each linked and streamed. Classé boasts that “the Delta PRE Mk II is now one of the versatile and succesful digitally enabled preamplifiers in its class.”

The model guarantees “imperceptible ranges of distortion and actually world-class efficiency”. Moreover, house owners of the OG Delta PRE items may profit from the efficiency enhancements accessible within the new PRE Mk II by upgrading their present PRE to Mk II specification.

The PRE Mk II options HEOS, the multiroom platform utilized by Massimo stablemates Denon and Marantz. The upshot of this inclusion is that the Delta PRE Mk II can stream music from Amazon Music, TIDAL HiFi Plus, Deezer, Pandora, and far more. Furthermore, DLNA and Roon Ready assist blesses the Classé with equal flexibility when streaming from a NAS drive. The Delta PRE Mk II helps all the favored format flavours, together with WAV, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, DSD, and MQA.

As if grabbing your networked music library wasn’t sufficient, it’s also possible to add native music sources by way of the front-panel USB-A and rear-panel USB-B sockets. Rounding issues off is AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect compatibility, and the power to playback 768K hi-res audio/DSD512 over USB-B due to the twin 32-bit / 384kHz AKM AK4497EQ DACs working in Differential Mono mode.

The new stereo pre-amp contains processing options reminiscent of bass administration, a five-band parametric EQ per channel, and a versatile tone/tilt management.

The PRE MkII additionally provides a complete record of cabled connection capabilities, together with two pairs of balanced XLRs, two pairs of RCA, and an MM/MC Phono RCA pair. You additionally get a trio of SPDIF Coax and Optical inputs, in addition to AES/EBU. Outputs embrace 5 configurable XLRs (2 pairs + 1 sub) and one pair + 1 sub RCA. There can be the choice so as to add an HDMI module, accommodating as much as 4 HDMI units.

The Classé Delta PRE Mk II is accessible now abroad for £11,000/ €12,000, whereas house owners of the unique Delta PRE can improve their unit for £2,600/ €3,000. Australian pricing and availability has not but been confirmed.