Plinius Inspire 980 DAC streamer amplifier
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Plinius Inspire 980 Integrated Amplifier
Listening to High Fidelity reproduction of music can give you a lift or soothe and relax you depending on your needs.
Can you afford to miss out on this experience by listening to your favourite music on anything but the best system? We don’t think you should have to and Plinius solutions get you into true High Fidelity listening.
Manufacturing and Production
All aspects of our business from design through to marketing are carried out by the Plinius team operating from our headquarters in New Zealand.
Our team of young designers bring energy and modern engineering practice to the simple goal of introducing a modern audience to High Fidelity music.
At our facility in Christchurch all aspects of production are situated close to each other on one site ensuring there is a close working relationship between all members of the manufacturing team.
International distributors are frequent visitors to our premises where they can see Plinius products being individually assembled. They are often surprised by the very complex and sophisticated products being made in other departments. Our production facility supports a variety of businesses from laboratory and medical equipment to camera and GPS systems.
The 80 watt per channel Plinius 980 has all the versatility of the Inspire 880 that allows you to directly connect up almost any source – analogue or digital – from a CD player, your personal computer, your AV source or turntable. The Inspire 980 adds the further feature of networking capability via wired or wireless Ethernet and this allows you to directly access your music library stored on a networked drive.
The Plinius Inspire 980 Integrated Amplifier is available for demo at Criterion Audio.
Click here to view a review of the Plinius 980 on the Tone Audio website
Click here to view Plinius products available at Criterion Audio
The Inspire 980 adds networking streaming compared to the 880 integrated. On demonstration at Criterion Audio Cambridge.
The 80 watt per channel Inspire 980 has all the versatility of the Inspire 880 that allows you to directly connect up almost any source from a CD player, your personal computer, your AV source or turntable. The Inspire 980 adds the further feature of networking capability via wired or wireless Ethernet and this allows you to directly access your music library stored on a networked drive.
Various network controllers can be used to control playback but for the ultimate in refinement of interfaces the Plinius Arataki can’t be beaten. The Arataki app for iPad was developed to control network playback via our premium Tiki and Toko products but it can also be used with the Inspire 980.
Whether enjoying a listening session with friends or using a play-list for background music at a party the Inspire 980 and the Arataki controller is the perfect combo for enjoying music in high fidelity.
- Specification:
- Power: 80 watts RMS per channel into 8 ohms. Both channels driven from 20Hz to 20kHz at less than 0.2% total harmonic distortion
- Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz /-0.2dB, -3dB at 2Hz and -3dB at 300kHz
- Distortion:
- Typically >0.05% THD at rated power
- 0.2% THD and IM worst case prior to clipping
- Current Output: 16A short duration peak per channel, fuse protected
- Input Impedence: 10k ohms for line inputs
- Gain: Line inputs to speaker out 38dB
- Digital Inputs:
- 1 x USB asynchronous (up to 24 bit, 192ks/s)
- 2 x Optical Toslink (up to 24 bit, 96ks/s)
- MM Phono Input
- RCA Unbalanced Input
- Gain: 50dB
- Load: 47k
- Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz /–0.2dB within RIAA spec
- Power/Current Consumption
- 300W (maximum)
- 0.14A (32W) Standby
- Height: 72mm (3″)
- Width: 450mm (17.75″)
- Depth: 350mm (13.75″)
- Weight: 10kg (22lb)
