![]() Play Nick Cave’s beautiful Bright Horses and we find ourselves craving greater subtlety and dynamic attention from the heavy-handed piano and surging strings – the kind delivered by the class-leading Marantz PM7000N, for example. ![]() At times, however, we’d readily swap some of that for more spaciousness and sincerity. There’s certainly more than a suggestion of forwardness and its upbeat character brings benefits to tracks that demand it. This all holds true through the digital connections too: the insight and character is well retained, evidence of the effort that Audiolab put into the digital stage paying off. It’s not the most spacious listen, but it organises each strand coherently. Similarly, as we play 65daysofstatic’s Unmake The Wild Light, the Audiolab’s performance is energising, as it rolls through melodic synths and charges through denser, more demanding sections. It’s an arresting rendition, the assault of horns is authoritative, the raw synths are cutting, and both West’s auto-tuned rap and Nina Simone’s vocal samples are sharp and lucid. Play Kanye West’s Blood On The Leaves and the Audiolab isn’t short of punch and attack, and it also has a copious and well-controlled low-end presence. It is startlingly smooth and articulate, while also being capable of spicing things up with a healthy dose of energetic drive. The 6000A Play’s frontage isn’t the only similarity between it and the 6000A – the streaming amp also shares its sibling’s penchant for clarity, cleanliness and punch. ![]() The company has been honing the implementation inside its digital products since, and here is no different.Īll sources, save for those hooked up to the legacy analogue sockets, are privy to Audiolab’s three user-selectable digital audio filters – ‘fast roll-off’, ‘slow roll-off’ (our favoured mode) and ‘minimum phase’ – offering some level of customisation based on your partnering equipment and preference. The digital inputs feed into the same family of ESS Sabre32 Reference DAC chips found in Audiolab’s celebrated M-DAC almost a decade ago. Last but not least, aptX Bluetooth offers an easy offline way to stream from your phone or music player, too. Traditionalists are well catered for through the 6000A Play’s MM phono input, while a further fine spread of three line-level, two optical and two coaxial inputs can collectively accommodate CD players, CD transports, TVs or practically any other analogue or digital source. ![]() Streaming may be taking the music (and hi-fi) industry by storm, but vinyl and other physical media aren’t going anywhere – as Audiolab knows. Thanks to Works With Alexa support, those who are now accustomed to shouting demands at their devices can use their voice to control the 6000A Play, providing it’s hooked up to an Amazon Alexa-equipped device. Inputs Coaxial x2, optical x2, line-level RCA x3 ![]()
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