Canadian high-end AV specialist Anthem has revealed a new music preamp and home cinema processor in the shape of the AVM 50v (Audio/Video Master 50v).
Following Anthem's super high end benchmark design, the Statement D2v, which appeared last year along with the P5 power amp asking for £16,000, the AVM 50v promises similar advanced technologies at a lower price.
It's a 7.1-channel audio and video processor with eight separate HDMI inputs, broadcast-quality digital video processing, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, XLRs, 1080p upscaling, Anthem Room Correction, and two stereo zones.
It also includes the latest Sigma Designs VXP broadcast-quality digital video processing for deeper colour while promising improved noise reduction through block artefact and mosquito noise reduction.
Two new dual-core audio Digital Signal Processing (DSP) engines, designed by Anthem in its Ontario labs, offer a total of 800 million instructions per second (MIPS) of processing power to allow decoding of the new Dolby, DTS and other HD audio standards.
Anthem has upgraded its pulse-code modulation (PCM) input to support 7.1 channels at 24 bits or 192kHz and the receiver also contains a programmable equalizer and a Clock Data Recovery (CDR) function for each of the three TMDS pairs in an HDMI or DVI signal for vanishingly low jitter.
The Anthem AVM 50v is on sale now for £5,999.
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