There’s an awful lot going on back there.Īt either end of the panel are a pair of chunky speaker binding posts, able to accept either bare wire or 4mm banana plugs. So while the front of the Integro is calm and minimal, the rear is hectic. The downside of being compact and discreet in physical terms is that it can be tricky to squeeze in all the physical connectivity you wish to include. As far as design goes Volumio certainly seems to think less is more – and I reckon there will be quite a few prospective customers who agree. A pair of oversized and quite assertively orange control dials sit either side of a small, functional OLED display on the fascia, along with a 6.3mm headphone socket – and that’s basically your lot.Įverything is put together perfectly well, and everything feels ready to survive even quite careless ownership. The main chassis is of a single slice of folded aluminium with integrated feet, capped with a plastic front face and a metal rear. What there is of the Integro is very nicely made of very acceptable materials. It’s not short of competition where functionality is concerned, but as far as dimensions are concerned it’s in a league of its own. At just 50 x 270 x 150mm (HxWxD), the Volumio Integro is extremely discreet, very compact and proportioned to be positioned pretty much anywhere you like. From the outset, the Volumio has both price and physical discretion on its side – but it’ll need to perform properly too if it’s going to tempt you… Designĭiscreet is a word I’ll be relying on here, even more so than the word compact. There’s nothing new about the idea of an integrated network amplifier, of course – everyone from Cambridge Audio and Marantz to NAD and Yamaha has one to sell you. In the United States it’s definitely $1199, regardless of prevailing economic conditions. It’s a similar deal for Australian customers – so on the day I’m writing this review, UK customers will pay £1057 and Australian customers AU$1952. It sells for €1199 on Volumio’s own website, and shipping to the UK is free. The Volumio Integro integrated network amplifier is on sale now, and in the United Kingdom it costs whatever the sterling/euro exchange rate happens to be on that day you order it.
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