Mark Levinson integrated powerhouse with all the bling


No! Class-D inside this beauty.
Linear Class-A/B and delivers good current into low loads, most probably BJT output, also has "bling" a dac and phono stage inside, heavy at almost 30kg
Remains flat in frequency response regardless of loading, (no tone control behavior like many do) 

And can do respectable wattage's down into 2ohms
133.5Wpc into 8 ohms 
210w into 4 ohms
370w into 2 ohms 
 
At $8K would have to be a contender for those wanting an integrated that can handle hard to drive speakers.

https://www.stereo.net.au/reviews/mark-levinson-ml5802-integrated-amplifier-review

https://www.stereophile.com/content/mark-levinson-no5805-integrated-amplifier

Cheers George
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it must make the people doing the bashing feel oh-so superior to those of us who like ML.
Yeah superior plebs, who have no idea how good ML electronics were, amps or digital.

Cheers George
ML is one of those brands which, after I heard it, I could understand why everyone talks about how good it measures.
Whatever is meant by that.

But I will follow up and say most ML amps are big, effortless sounding, with massive sound stage, extended both ends and never ever sound hard, or stressed, and usually can drive everything, if anything their sound is a little on the dark side of neutral.

Cheers George
Mark Levinson Integrated....hmmmm... 585 look no further
Also nice if a used one is wanted, but was double the new price, (if adjusted for 5 years time), and it also only got 20w out of it more when tested before it shut down into 2ohm, so for the money this new one is pretty good.

The new one also stays flatter into the simulated load test, even though it has higher output impedance "less feedback?" but more current?
So the new has better low load impedance control but doesn’t have as good distortion figures, because maybe of using less feedback.

This is the real interesting part it runs 2 of it 8 per channel transistors in pure class-A, it has an automatic adjustable to max Class-A bias according to heatsink temperature.

Cheers George
All good info on paper. Question is: have YOU listened to any of the two?
Na neither, but I've always liked what ML does, I've yet to hear for myself or read anything bad from ML, except for one that was a bit of a flop, and that was their balls and all foray into class-d with the  No.53 Class-D monoblocks.

Cheers George