{"id":139915,"date":"2022-01-21T07:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=139915"},"modified":"2022-01-21T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T07:55:04","slug":"luxman-m-10x-new-flagship-power-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/luxman-m-10x-new-flagship-power-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxman M-10X: New Flagship Power Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-channel power Luxman M-10x\u00a0will replace the previous flagship model M-900u.\u00a0The amplifier will be included in the next generation line, which Luxman will introduce for its 100th anniversary in 1925.<\/p>\n<p>An important part of Luxman&#8217;s heritage in amplifier design is the ODNF negative feedback circuit, which the company has been developing since the end of the last century.\u00a0The circuit evolved into the Luxman Integrated Feedback Engine System (LIFES1.0) technology, which was used in the Luxman M-10x.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/145_techweek.jpg\" width=\"1444\" height=\"778\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The M-10x has 4-channel push-pull output modules equipped with 3-stage composite Darlington transistors. The result was a 4-parallel push-pull output stage with 16 transistors per channel.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/146_techweek.jpg\" width=\"759\" height=\"569\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Field-effect transistors (FET) are in the preliminary stages.\u00a0Particular attention was paid to power supply &#8211; selected zener diodes manufactured by Vishay (USA) work with the new stabilizer microcircuits.\u00a0The total capacitance of the filtering power supply capacitors reached 80,000 microfarads.\u00a0The circuit is assembled on boards with thickened gold-plated tracks.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/147_techweek.jpg\" width=\"942\" height=\"987\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The M-10x with two rows of symmetrically located cooling radiators weighs under 50 kg. It is capable of delivering from nominal 2 x 150 watts into 8 ohms to peak 2 x 1200 watts into 1 ohm. Even single-channel &#8220;stadium&#8221; 2.4 kW into 2 ohms in BTL mode is possible. At the same time, the first 12 W are worked out in the &#8220;pure&#8221; class A.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/148_techweek.jpg\" width=\"1436\" height=\"734\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As stated, the high damping factor (710) will allow you to cope with even very complex columns. There are 12V trigger inputs and outputs to work with other components. The device will go on sale in February 2022.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/luxmanamerica.com\/product\/m-10x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Luxman M-10X Power Amplifier<\/a> had a suggested retail price of $19,995 in the US.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-channel power Luxman M-10x\u00a0will replace the previous flagship model M-900u.\u00a0The amplifier will be included in the next generation line, which Luxman will introduce for its 100th anniversary in 1925. An important part of Luxman&#8217;s heritage in amplifier design is the ODNF negative feedback circuit, which the company has been developing since the end of the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/luxman-m-10x-new-flagship-power-amplifier\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":139916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-139915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139915","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=139915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}