{"id":126428,"date":"2021-03-22T06:31:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=126428"},"modified":"2021-04-05T06:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:02:40","slug":"accustic-arts-mono-v-and-amp-v-fifth-generation-power-amplifiers-from-the-germans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/accustic-arts-mono-v-and-amp-v-fifth-generation-power-amplifiers-from-the-germans\/","title":{"rendered":"Accustic Arts Mono V and Amp V: Fifth generation Power Amplifiers from the germans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German company Accustic Arts has unveiled the fifth generation of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accusticarts.de\/en\/products\/mono-v\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MONO V<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accusticarts.de\/en\/products\/amp-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMP V<\/a> power amplifiers\u00a0. This time, the appearance of both V-power\u00a0units\u00a0coincided with the release of the\u00a0Accustic Arts Preamp III\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s clear that these components are designed to look and work harmoniously together.<\/p>\n<p>Both assistants in Accustic Arts were assigned to the reference class.\u00a0Mono V and Amp V are very similar.\u00a0On the one hand, their cases are indistinguishable, except for the different number of connectors on the rear panel of the 2-channel Amp V and the Mono V. In addition, they are distinguished by the model designation, milled into the thick top plate of the case.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"big\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cfa3fb4944e2d47696ac3d90be8077cb.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Otherwise, if you analyze the parameters, Amp V is actually two Mono Vs in one package.\u00a0Each power supply has 20 selected MOS-FET output transistors (there were 12 of them in versions II &#8211; in six complementary pairs).<\/p>\n<p>Power is supplied from a sealed toroidal transformer (there are two of them in the Amp V).\u00a0Each transformer is supplemented with a battery of capacities of 110,000 uF &#8211; it also increased by 30,000 uF.\u00a0Looking ahead, let&#8217;s say that the power of the Mono V and Amp V in comparison with the II models has increased approximately threefold.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"big\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34ae612f9cd2e4d1d9e74b9edf83d589.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Accustic Arts engineers traditionally paid special attention to the damping coefficient, which they described as &#8220;extremely&#8221; and &#8220;very&#8221; high for the Mono V and Amp V.\u00a0In addition, the Mono V uses switchable linearization of the damping factor.<\/p>\n<p>Both amplifiers can accept balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA input signals.\u00a0And finally, the power: for 4 Ohm speakers with THD + N = 0.1% distortion, both power units are capable of delivering about 1,400 watts per channel for Mono V and two channels for Amp V. At the same time, a 2 Ohm load is also subject to both new products: with the same quality, Mono V and Amp V will give it more than 1,500 watts per channel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"big\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bcecb4e414f8b02f93662efc17610863.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The amp weights match the capabilities: 71kg for the Mono V and 80kg for the Amp V. Pricing for these Accustic Arts amplifiers has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German company Accustic Arts has unveiled the fifth generation of\u00a0MONO V\u00a0and\u00a0AMP V power amplifiers\u00a0. This time, the appearance of both V-power\u00a0units\u00a0coincided with the release of the\u00a0Accustic Arts Preamp III\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s clear that these components are designed to look and work harmoniously together. Both assistants in Accustic Arts were assigned to the reference class.\u00a0Mono V [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/accustic-arts-mono-v-and-amp-v-fifth-generation-power-amplifiers-from-the-germans\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":126429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-126428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}