Edge M

Twice the edge – That's what Cambridge Audio's new 200-watt Edge M mono amp promises [€8'728/pr]. It's a fully balanced design in optimized class AB which the company refers to as XA. It claims to avoid zero-crossing distortion. It uses twin toroidal power transformers and delivers 350Wrms into 4Ω. Bandwidth is 80kHz -1dB, S/NR 115B at full power and distortion less than 0.002%. Each amp weighs 23.6kg and consumes 1KW at full power. Voltage gain is 22/28dB on RCA/XLR.