The cor integrated is an amplifier that adds no sonic character of its own to the music. It follows exactly the same design ethos for high resolution playback as used in the creation of all PMC’s loudspeakers, namely musicality, transparency and neutrality, where nothing is added and nothing is taken away. The role of the amplifier, like the company’s speakers, is to reproduce the music exactly as it is meant to be heard.
Designed and hand-built by PMC in the UK, the cor - the dictionary definition of which is: (anatomy) heart; (figuratively) soul, mind - is an integrated amplifier that works entirely in the analogue domain.
Every element of the cor has been developed with purity of sound at the top of the criteria list. The four unbalanced RCA analogue inputs are joined by one pair of balanced XLR inputs and a set of direct inputs that connect straight to the power amplifier. The cor integrated does not feature any digital inputs and is unashamedly an analogue amplifier for the purist.
All the components were specified without compromise after extensive listening tests, including the black PCBs and the volume control, which, together with the tone and balance faders, are motorised using the finest technology from professional mixing consoles, and are remote controllable. This provides flexibility to achieve the perfect sound on every track, without moving from your armchair.
Hear all the magic of music, with the cor integrated amplifier.
Overview:
- Type: Pure analogue Class A/B integrated amplifier
- Inputs: 1 x balanced, 4 x single-ended, direct in
- Outputs: 4mm binding posts, preamp out
Preamplifier:
- Frequency response: 20Hz - 20kHz +0/-0.2dB 5Hz - 80kHz +0/-1dB
- Maximum gain: 15dB
- Tone controls: +/- 10dB
- Input impedance: 25kOhms, unbalanced >14kOhms, balanced
- THD: 0.001% at 1kHz
- Maximum input: 5.5Vrms
- Maximum output: 10Vrms
Power Amplifier:
- Rated output power, 230V mains: 95W into 8Ohms,140W into 4Ohms
- Frequency response: 20Hz - 20kHz +0/-0.2dB 5Hz - 80kHz +0/-1dB
- Input impedance: 23.5kOhms
- Sensitivity: 1V = 100W into 8Ohms
- Gain: 28.9dB
- THD (Rated output power into 8Ohms): 0.001% at 1kHz
- Noise: -101dB A-weighted re. rated output
- Damping factor: >160 into 8Ohms, 20Hz - 20kHz
General:
- Dimensions:
H: 87.5mm (3.4")
W: 432mm (17")
D: 401mm (15.8") - inc. feet
- Weight: 12kg (26.5lbs)
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"The Cor is essentially transparent to the source, so if you like what that does you should like the results the amp will give you."
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"The one thing that was clear after a couple of days is that PMC has manufactured an amplifier that does full justice to their loudspeakers."
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"What cor sounds like is hard to grasp because it’s so refined, subtle, and transparent, but what you can say is that it’s incredibly open and revealing."
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"If genuine neutrality is what you seek, it is undoubtedly possible to create it, but the Cor’s ability to emphasise what you already like about your system without adding more variables is arguably even more desirable."
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"The Cor’s utilitarian look, which I like, states firmly, in a businesslike tone, “I’m not messing around -- get out of my way and let me do my job.” That job is to effortlessly drive almost any pair of speakers with uncompromised transparency."
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