{"id":146655,"date":"2022-07-14T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=146655"},"modified":"2022-07-14T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:40:03","slug":"tangent-launches-budget-preamp-ii-and-powerampster-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/tangent-launches-budget-preamp-ii-and-powerampster-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangent launches budget PreAmp II and PowerAmpster II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tangent has\u00a0announced the release of a pair of PreAmp II preamplifier and\u00a0PowerAmpster II\u00a0power\u00a0amplifier\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"870\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Tangent PreAmp\u00a0II\u00a0is equipped with a built-in DAC and has a full array of digital and analog inputs, as well as\u00a03.5mm analog outputs, RCA, XLR\u00a0and a mono subwoofer output.\u00a0There is a 6.35 mm headphone jack on the front panel, and the device also has a Bluetooth 5.0 module with\u00a0aptX HD\u00a0support .\u00a0The retail price of the model will be\u00a0200 euros\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/78_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Tangent\u00a0\u00a0PowerAmpster\u00a0II\u00a0operates in\u00a0Class D\u00a0and can deliver up to\u00a0100 watts\u00a0per channel into\u00a04\u00a0ohms in stereo mode and up to\u00a0200 watts\u00a0per channel into\u00a08 ohms\u00a0in bridging.\u00a0Connection is possible to unbalanced RCA input and balanced XLR.\u00a0The retail price of the amplifier is $300\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/79_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both components are made in cases with dimensions of\u00a0195 x 70 x 194 mm\u00a0and weigh\u00a01.3 kg\u00a0and\u00a02 kg\u00a0, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangent has\u00a0announced the release of a pair of PreAmp II preamplifier and\u00a0PowerAmpster II\u00a0power\u00a0amplifier\u00a0. The Tangent PreAmp\u00a0II\u00a0is equipped with a built-in DAC and has a full array of digital and analog inputs, as well as\u00a03.5mm analog outputs, RCA, XLR\u00a0and a mono subwoofer output.\u00a0There is a 6.35 mm headphone jack on the front panel, and the device [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/tangent-launches-budget-preamp-ii-and-powerampster-ii\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":146656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-146655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146655","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=146655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}