Your Home Theater’s Missing Keystone
Engineered for best-in-class performance, the Marantz AMP 10 is a 16-channel power amplifier built for listeners who want to experience the full scope of their home theater setup. Rated at 200 watts per channel into 8 ohms, it combines impressive power output with an abundant channel count, delivering clean, controlled power to even the most complex speaker configurations. The AMP 10 pairs flawlessly with the Marantz AV 10 preamplifier, providing you with plenty of horsepower to accommodate a 15.4-channel setup, enough for even the most ambitious builds. Bi-amp and BTL modes provide additional flexibility to push individual speakers harder or drive woofer and tweeter sections independently. Whatever your setup is, or wherever you want to take it, the AMP 10 is built to drive it with authority.
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Current feedback circuit design
When a recording captures the crack of a snare drum or the attack of a picked guitar string, that information arrives faster than most amplifier circuits can cleanly process it. This is because most amplifier designs use a voltage feedback topology, which decreases bandwidth as gain increases. The AMP 10 uses a current feedback circuit instead, which responds to error currents rather than error voltages and eliminates this gain/bandwidth tradeoff entirely. The result is an amplifier that stays wide open at higher gain settings, so the fine detail and dynamic snap of high-resolution audio reach your speakers exactly as recorded.
Two ways to push the amp further
The AMP 10 offers two advanced connection modes for listeners who want to extract maximum performance from their speakers. Bi-amp mode dedicates separate amplifier channels to a speaker's woofer and tweeter terminals, eliminating the counter-electromotive force, or back-EMF, that a working woofer can feed back into the tweeter circuit. BTL (Bridge) mode takes a different approach, combining two channels into a single feed and doubling the output to 400 watts into 4 ohms, giving power-hungry speakers the headroom they need to perform without strain. Both modes are configurable per channel pair directly on the rear panel of the AMP 10; no additional cabling from the preamplifier is required.
Marantz: a legacy of home entertainment excellence
One of the original architects of hi-fi amplification, Saul Marantz founded the company that bears his name in 1953. In the ensuing decades, Marantz established state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Japan and cemented a reputation for outstanding audio quality in music reproduction and home cinema. The warm, detailed, and highly musical sound of a Marantz is the result of a number of factors, including advanced research and design, uncompromising build quality with premium electronic components, and rigorous testing of every element of every product. Proprietary Marantz technologies, such as the Hyper Dynamic Amplifier Module (HDAM), impart enhanced dimensionality to the Marantz sound. Today, the latest HDAM SA-2 technology is at the heart of the amplification circuitry in the company’s flagship products. The highest-quality D/A converters and clock jitter reducers are specified to decode high-resolution music files with unerring accuracy. Gold-plated RCA terminals ensure that corrosion won’t degrade signals as products age. Custom toroidal transformers help regulate power for consistent performance and superior sound. And copper-plated chassis are used to eliminate possible electronic interference. These are but a few of the finer points that set Marantz components apart from the crowd. Sweetwater is proud to offer you this esteemed line of outstanding home audio-video products.
Marantz AMP 10 Features:
- Reference-grade Class D amplifier delivering 16 channels of authority-level power for the most ambitious home theater builds
- Rated at 200W per channel into 8Ω (or 400W into 4Ω), driving every one of your speakers with confidence and control
- High-speed current feedback circuit ensures accurate, natural signal reproduction, preserving transient detail across the full audio spectrum
- HDAM-equipped preamp stage captures the finest nuances of DSD and high-resolution audio
- Bi-amp mode powers woofer and tweeter independently, eliminating back-EMF interference between drivers for a cleaner sound
- BTL (Bridge) mode combines 2 channels into a single 400W feed, ideal for driving power-hungry speakers to their full potential
- Balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA inputs on every channel pair, so you can connect to virtually any preamp
- Double-layered, copper-plated chassis minimizes interference and vibration, keeping the noise floor as low as possible
- MELF resistors and premium electrolytic capacitors throughout the signal path maintain accuracy and consistency across the full audio band
- High-end machined brass speaker binding posts on all 16 channels ensure a secure, low-resistance connection that protects signal integrity from amplifier to speaker
- Pairs flawlessly with the Marantz AV 10 preamplifier, providing plenty of horsepower to accommodate a 15.4-ch. setup
- Amp Control jack links power and display settings with an AV 10 preamp, so the whole system powers up and down together
- Analog level meter with backlit display monitors Channel 1 output in real time, so you always have a visual read on what the amplifier is doing
- DC trigger I/O, IR Flasher input, and RS-232C port give custom installers full integration flexibility without workarounds
