Marantz Model M1 HEOS Streaming multi-room amp

Description

A streaming amp with excellent sound Marantz’s MODEL M1 streaming amp lets you create a great-sounding two-channel hi-fi system by simply adding a pair of passive speakers. It’s got smooth, powerful amplification, crystal-clear high-res digital decoding, and flexible streaming capabilities – including built-in HEOS, which allows it to be part of a wireless multi-room sound system. It can also handle analog and digital sources, including a TV. High-performance amplification and digital decoding The M1 is meticulously designed and built in Marantz’s storied Shirakawa facility in Japan. Its high-performance built-in amp provides robust, clean sound with an extremely quiet noise floor and impressively low distortion. And it’s stable down to 4 ohms if you want to use it with more demanding speakers. Marantz’s proprietary digital filtering is the same you’ll find in their fantastic-sounding higher-end CD players and streaming components. It helps the M1 deliver beautifully clear musical detail. Hands-on with the Marantz M1 streaming amplifier I tested the MODEL M1 with a pair of MartinLogan floor-standing speakers. I downloaded and opened the HEOS app, and it recognized the M1. I’m a Qobuz user, but that service is not one of the many which HEOS natively supports – Spotify?, TIDAL, and more. Instead, I played some high-res music files that I had downloaded on my phone. HEOS displays music sources in a logical way, and I was pleased to see my local favorite radio station, WTJU, ready to roll in the radio section. My phone showed up in the source row and from there it was easy navigating. The amplifier pushed out substantial sound and brought my speakers to life through the dynamic peaks and valleys of Electricity, a track on Bill Frisell’s Orchestras album. It’s a very nice-sounding live record featuring both jazz and philharmonic orchestras. The M1 delivered a pleasing wide and open soundstage with the kind of low end you feel at a large-scale live orchestral performan