Technical data

The PM-12 Special Edition integrated amplifier in a nutshell:

• Developed and fine-tuned by European and Japanese sound engineers with over 65 years of experience with Marantz amplifier designs
• Marantz high-resolution preamplifier stage with proprietary HDAM technology
  Switching power amp design derived from flagship PM-10 and PM-KI Ruby
• Any speaker can be connected thanks to the impedance independent frequency response
• Generous Output: 100W + 100W (into 8 Ohms), 200W + 200W (4 Ohms)
• Completely discrete, two-stage design for signal purity with separate power supply for preamp section and power amp section to reduce interference
• Toroidal transformer especially for the preamplifier for clarity and a powerful sound
• Current Feedback design with newly developed broadband circuit
• HDAM® SA3 circuit for a clean signal and optimal dynamics
• MM / MC phono input with new, discrete Marantz Musical Premium Phono EQ circuit
• Separate, nickel-plated connections for CD and phono and Marantz own, high-quality copper-plated speaker connections with a high purity
• Linear volume control with new electric volume system

SA-12 Special Edition SACD player with DAC mode in a nutshell:

• Developed and extensively tuned by European and Japanese sound engineers with over 35 years of experience at Marantz in CD players and digital audio
• The internally developed SACD / CD mechanism SACDM-3 has been specially developed for audio
• Playback of SACD / CD and playback of compilations on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM
• Asynchronous USB input for high-resolution audio up to PCM / DXD 384 kHz / 32-bit and DSD 11.2 MHz
• Isolation of USB and digital inputs (optical and coaxial) to block out noise from internal and external sources
• Innovative Marantz Musical Mastering “MMM-Stream” upsampling to DSD and filtration
• Specially designed and 1-bit, direct “MM Conversion” from DSD to analog
• New analog output stage with Marantz HDAM-SA3 and HDAM-SA2 technology and low output impedance
• Power supply with toroidal transformer
• Separate headphone amplifier with all-discrete HDAM-SA2 construction