Audio Engineering Society UK

Title: ‘The anatomy of a modern audio-video amplifier’
Location: Royal Academy of Engineering, London
Description: Lecture by John Dawson, Arcam
Start Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Date: Tuesday 10th November 2009

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A modern Audio-Video amplifier/receiver (AVR) is an exceedingly complex piece of consumer electronics, requiring expertise in many aspects of analogue and digital audio and high definition video, plus considerable software skills. As such it represents a huge project for any small to medium sized audio company. This lecture takes a look inside the Arcam AVR600 – one of the few such units developed outside of the large Japanese CE companies – and will discuss some of the design choices made in order to try to ensure a good chance of commercial success.