Peachtree Audio Carina Integrated Amplifier

Peachtree Audio Carina Integrated Amplifier

Carina is Peachtree Audio's new flagship integrated amplifier. It combines several of the sound quality enhancements introduced in the nova500 with the power and price point of the nova300. It is Peachtree Audio's first product with the critically acclaimed Hypex N-Core amplifier technology built-in. Carina also brings several new features to a Peachtree amplifier for the first time.

Digital
• Two ESS 9068 DAC chips, dual mono (one for the left channel, one for the right channel)
• Accepts HD audio input up to 768k PCM and 512k DSD
• Selectable digital filter settings including oversampling on/off
• Full MQA decoding on ALL inputs
• I2S input

Preamplifier
• Fully balanced analog circuitry from the DACs to the power and headphone amplifiers
• High-performance, hybrid volume control (combination analog resistor ladder/digital attenuation)
• User selectable all-digital volume control option
• Bluetooth 5.0 input with HD audio decoding

Amplifiers
• 300 watts-per-channel Hypex NCore power amplifier driving the speaker outputs
• Fully-balanced headphone amplifier with a 4.4mm T/R/R/S output (1/4" unbalanced output also provided)