 Naast de Deerak Room Correction, een MQA decoding en rendering, de SA30 geeft Googlecast, Airplay 2, Dnl Streaming, Roon Endpoint, beide MM en MC Phono inputs, een HDMI Arc input, RS232 voor custom install en 2x 120 watts Class G Amps. De Arkham Design Language, graag kabinet, groen display character en silvernobs en botten, maakt de brand recognisable, waardoor het eenvoudig is. Als het van de introductie klopt, is het een heel vers tarlem. Dat ziet er niet uit, hoewel het nodig is. Dan ziet de display de nodigste info. Maar laten we eerst zien waar de SA30 in een stereo is. Een Streaming Amp is een centrapees in een stereo en, natuurlijk, moet een loudspeaker het connecten. Toen faciliteert Streaming, moet het connecten met de internet over je modem of router. Als je een computer met either Dnl of Roon Server connecten met je netwerk, kun je muziek spelen van daar met de matching app op een tablet of smartphone. Transportfuncties, settings en volume kunnen worden gedaan door de comprehensive remote control. Dit is alles dat nodig is om muziek spelen van je computer, streaming services en internetradio te spelen. Maar je kunt ook connecten met een USB storage medium om muziek te houden, een CD-player over either digital of analogue connecties, een tuner of andere analogue source, een turntable met ieder mm of mc cartridge mounten en een tv met ieder tosteling of een HDMI-ark. Geven de mogelijkheden, de linea power supply in de klas G amplificatie, de iCam S30 is relatief compact. Het heeft een standaard 433 mm width en is 323 mm diep. Met de hoge van alleen 100 mm is het minder dan andere 120 watt klas A, klas AB of klas G Amps met een linea power supply. Waarschijnlijk de luchtsteroidentransformer, die tussen de onderste en de topplaats is, de weight van de amp is alleen 10,7 kilo's. Aan de voordat, rechts, zien we de powerbutton, met naast het power LED. Dan een serieus van pushbuttons. Balans die de volume control op de balanscontrole de display brightness selector, de directe button die met analogue sources geeft de signal analogue, de info-button die je door informatie op de display leidt, mute, direct leidt je een van de drie mogelijk directe kurs en de twee input-buttons leidt je door de input. De menu-button leidt je in de settings menu. Een hoge input en de telefoon output zijn op 3,5 mm jack. De hoge volume control speelt de toer van de front. Hier bevindt we de IC mains input, de voltage selector, de network socket, een USB-A socket voor externe drijfgevolding muziek en een RS232 connector voor luxuurlijke remote controles. Dan de analogue inputs, begrijpen we met de line inputs die zijn namelijk CD, PVR voor persoonlijke videorecorder en SDB voor zet-ofbox. Maar alle drie kunnen ook gebruikt worden door andere analogue sources, zoals tuner of analogue outputs van tv. Dan krijgen we twee phonoinputen, één voor een moeilijke magnet-cartridge en een voor een moeilijke coil-cartridge. De grondterminal voor de turntabel is ontwikkeld hier. Inbetween the analogue line level output of the preamp-section. Dit kan worden gebruikt voor een extra poweramp, when biamping or for driving an active subwoofer. Dan de digital inputs, begrijpen we met twee spidiffinputen namelijk AV en BED voor audiovisuel en blu-ray en twee tostlinkinputen namelijk SAT en GAME. Again, they are just names. Any digital source with spidiff or tostlink output can be connected here, like tv, cd player and game console. De laatste digital input is de HDMI arc input. When connected to the HDMI arc connector on your tv, the tv sound is reproduced over the stereo while the volume control of the SA30 can be adjusted using the tv remote. Two antenna sockets for wifi and bluetooth for the supplied antennas and two pairs of loudspeaker terminals conclude the tour of the back. The inside is rather crowded. On the left, directly behind the main's input, we find some filtering and fuses. Behind it the large noratelteroidal transformer. For buffering there are four electrolytic capacitors of 18000 microfarads. Then we see three circuit boards above each other. The top one does the HDMI interfacing, the larger one below it does the digital interfacing with an AKM digital audio receiver and the AKM-AK5552 analog to digital converter voor when you want the analog sources passed through the digital processing. For instance if you want to use the direct room correction. Also found here is the wifi and bluetooth module mounted piggyback on the digital board. The board below it holds the analog electronics, the digital to analog conversion using the ES9038Q2M DAC chip and the analog volume control in the shape of a Burr-brown PGA2311U, dat uses nicely small 0.5 dB steps. Towards the rear we see the Class G power stage, with the cooling profile, the power transistor mounted against it and the dual rail power supply in front of it. Class G is a combination of Class A known for its sound quality and lower power and Class AB with its crossover distortion and higher power output. Class G stays in Class A up to a certain level, I guess that's 20 watts here. To switch to Class AB when higher power is needed and crossover distortion is hardly influencing the sound quality. To do this, two power rails are used that are switched between depending on the output power needed. The power amp delivers 120 watts per channel in 8 ohms and 220 watts into 4 ohms. Although the SA30 can be operated from the front, using the remote control is far more easy, especially since the display uses large characters that can be read from a distance, about 3 meters in my case. It can not only control the amp, but also the streaming functions and the Arcamp CD player when present. It can also be reprogrammed to control other devices. There is a numerical pad, transport functions, menu keys, amp functions and volume control, colored keys for TV and keys for input selection. Since there are so many inputs, those that are not in use can be switched off so that when selected with the input plus and minus keys on the front, these are skipped. Analog inputs can be routed through the digital circuits so that direct can be used or stay analog throughout the amp. Three direct live curves can be stored and each input can set to use any of these three curves. So he can filter out very low frequencies for phono as a kind of rumble filter. Or use a curve that accentuates speech for TV sound. Analog inputs can be set to processor pass-through so that when the left and right pre-outputs of a surround processor are connected to that input, it switches to a fixed gain. This way you can use your stereo to do the left and right channels of a surround setup. The SA30 has seven reconstruction filters. Feel free to pick any but I like the appetizing filter best. It also is the default filter. MQA is supported too, so when you subscribe to Tidal, you can have the full benefit. To use the network-based audio, you have to select the input named NET. It automatically switches to the incoming stream. The SA30 supports DLNA and UPMP-AV. DLNA and UPMP-AV are effectively two names for the same function. So I use only DLNA as a name. DLNA-support means that you can have a DLNA server program running on your computer or NAS and use the DLNA controller app on your smartphone or tablet to select music and set volume, make playlists and so on. The best DLNA server program I know is MinimServer. It's available for Windows, macOS, Linux, QNAP, Synology, Asset Store, ReadyNAS en Melco. De start-up edition is free. De full version costs 28 pounds per year. To work with DLNA, you can also look up the IP address of the SA30 in the menu. Type that into a browser on your computer tablet or smartphone and give an enter. On a computer, you see this screen. Choosing device settings, let you change the name, password protector settings, check for updates and reset settings. Network settings can be checked too and there is info on Googlecast. But the reason I show this is under the web client for there is a DLNA controller that lets you select music from your DLNA server, a USB stick or streaming service and play it over the SA30. Let me show you what MinimServer on the NAS does. I'm going to look for ZUKO 103 and select the album WA. Once playing, the volume can be changed here and the playlist can be displayed. If you don't want to use a browser, you can install a DLNA controller on your smartphone or tablet. To do so, search for DLNA controller in your app store and you find many free and a number of paid apps. I use Glider. If you are a Roon user, you can simply add the SA32 Roon by going to setup, then audio, look for the Arkam SA30 and enter a convenient name. I used Arkam SA30, but you could use living room, listening room or any name you like. If you use a streaming app like Tidal, Koboost or Spotify, you can use DLNA, Airplay or Googlecast to send the music from your smartphone or tablet to the SA30. For Tidal, it works like this. Select music to play. Go to the now playing screen and select the SA30 as speaker. Koboost works the same. Spotify doesn't seem to do DLNA, so here you choose Apple Airplay too. The display on the SA30 shows the input on the top line and scroll downwards to show what is streaming in the bottom line. I started in my setup 2 where the SA30 was connected to the Acoustic Energy Radiance 1 loudspeaker. These were supported by the RELT 5 subwoofer connected to the loudspeaker terminals of the SA30 using the REL supplied cable. The network connection was made using a CAT 6 patch cable to the Uptone Ether-region switch, powered by the Uptone UltraCAPS 1.2 power supply. On the dirty side, the Ether-region is connected over a CAT 6 patch cable to the central switch on the third floor and from there to the Zigo internet modem. De DLNA server programminim server was running on the Synology DS1819 plus NAS and I used the Glider DLNA controller app on the iPad Pro 2. RuneRock was running on a M.2 SSD in an Intel NUC 10i7FNH and has the music stored on a 10TB Western Digital USB drive. The RuneControl app was run on the same iPad Pro 2. De equipment was placed in a target rack. All listening was done using the Apple Dising reconstruction filter. The first thing I noticed was a stress-free sound coming from a wide and deep stereo image. Within that stereo image instruments were well in focus and had a good amount of air around them. Voices were very natural as were brass and strings. Sibilance was remarkably clean for this price category. The same was the case with bass. Although not of the same class the sound character has a strong resemblance to the air amp in my setup 1. Just like with the Merence Model 40N review I took the SA30 downstairs and connected it to the PMC Fact 12 signature loudspeakers on stack audio over our 70 isolasers using AudioQuest Robinhood 0 loudspeaker cable. The network connection was made over the network acoustic muwen streaming system tot de Ziggle GS 1900-10 HP switch dat was connectet over CAT 6 cable tot de Ziggle internet modem. De Synology DS1819 plus NAS running Minim server again was the DnL source. Roon Rock was running on a M.2 SSD in an Intel Nocten i7 FNH en has the music stored on a 10TB Western Digital USB drive. Roon Control app was run on the same iPad Pro 2. The HDMI arc input was tested using my 56 inch Panasonic Plasma TV. I had heard the SA30 on a pair of vivid audio GIA4G's at the distributors and was rather impressed. So I felt confident it would perform well to all my PMCs despite the fact that it has a lower efficiency. Next to the things I noticed in my setup 2 the bass control was remarkably good. Different from what class D amps do offering more texture. Midrange resolution appeared to be even better than noticed in my setup 2. Pace and rhythm, micro dynamics and stereo image were better than I have heard up till now with other amps in this price range and in this setting. It's no air amp of course but given its price the overall sound quality is remarkably good. What's there to say? The SA30 looks humble and stylish has more than sufficient inputs and streaming options. Its versatile has DRAC and MQA a great remote control and so on. But above all it sounds very good or should I say very musical. The integration of digital and analog apparently is very well worked out. 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