14.09.11
Whether you lend an ear to to music from the cloud, MP3s, CDs, LPs, cassettes, or 8-track tapes, it's always in stereo. So while multichannel SACD, DVD-A, or music-only Blu-ray discs exude out, only a very small handful of recently recorded music is on tap in multichannel sound. If there was any real demand we would have surely seen an uptick in the copy of surround releases, but that's not happening. Stereo rules the music far-out, which is why high-quality hi-fis aren't going out of fashion. Onkyo's new A-9070 integrated amplifier and C-7070 CD speculator are both sound investments.
The two components' audiophile credentials are in non-alphabetical. The A-9070 boasts high-quality Wolfson 192 kHz/24-bit digital-to-analog converters to amend sound quality. You can use the A-9070 as an integrated amp, or a power amp, or preamp. The amp is rated at 140 watts per river-bed into 4 ohms. Connectivity details include an independent headphone amplifier, a turntable input for emotive-coil and moving-magnet phono cartridges, three digital audio inputs, four analog inputs, and gold-plated spieler posts.
Source: CNET (blog)