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Everything

Nothing

One great amplifier

Build quality internal/external,high quality sound!!

No WBT terminals, no balanced output.

This is a great sounding amplifier. Very detailed high en mid range and a very controled bass section. I've used it with a Marantz CD17 KI/CD6000ose, Scan Speak Reference Plus speakers/ B&W Nautilus. After tying a lot of different amps, I decided to stick to this one. What a great amplifier. Although it's a intergrated amplifier, you have to replace it with a heavy pre/end combi to get same results. I bought it very cheap at 750 Euro's. The PM16 is extremely well build, also the finsh is great. It's looks just like the recent PM14 model.

Similar Products Used:

PM14, PM8200, PM7000. Several Pre/End combi's

Yes IT IS a brute, weighing in at 20 kg and it certainly doesn´t lack any power with it´s 80W into 8 ohms. Some people I´ve talked to describes it bass-lighter than little brother PM-17(!), but more refined and detailed. I have to agree, it has everything one could wish for when it gets to clarity and honesty to the recordings. I´ve heard it with my P6`s (see my review), Dali 470 and 805 Nautilus. I marvelled at the endless power of the PM-16, separating instruments and voices, making it just natural and thrilling at the same time. The finish is as always with Marantz superb, in this case black, but also availible in gold, I think.
There can only be one rating:

Good sound, low price and well built

No pre-Amp output

This Amp doesn't lack anything: power, bass, detail, a perfect placing of instruments and voices, it never sounds stressed or sharp but utterly fantastic with any kind of music I tested (of course Opera, Symphony, Chamber Music, Jazz but also Zouk, Bossa Nova, Salsa …)

I really want to point out that this Amp doesn't lack any bass, and have to say that it is driving perfectly my diabolically good Jean Marie Reynaud Evolution 3 loudspeakers.

To conclude, I give it without hesitation a five star for the price I bought it ($980 by today's exchange rate with two years guarantee), and at this price it's definitively worth for the money however I'd given a four star for the suggested retail.

You can't go wrong with this one, believe it!

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Several Amp tested

sound is not to bad

build quallity

I owned one from 2 years and the damm thing kept breaking down .
unfortunatly it really stopt working afer 2 years and marantz didn t want to do anything for me because the service periode was over.
even in the workshop it kept breaking down.
this amp cost me a lot of money and brought me no pleasure at all ,just a lot of headaches.
I wouldnt want to recommend this amp to anyone, built quality and marantz service are very poor

Very well builded.Great looks. Great sound.Highest quality.

No pre-amp.

This is a very,very,good sounding amplifier. After reading several tests , in wich this amplifier always had the
highest possible ranking , i decided to check it out for myself. I could take one at home to try it in my own livingroom , with my own speakers (Magnepan 1.5). I really
was impressed by its performances. Indeed the bass-section is less powerfull then the PM17 , but this isn't a problem if one owns Magnepan speakers. The sound is so clear and detailed , its a lust for my ears. I payed a very acceptable price for it ($ 2500,- for the PM16 and a CD17).
For the lack of bass , special on the older recordings , i decided to buy a active subwoofer. Sound is now heavenly.

Similar Products Used:

Luxman.

Soft, analytical power is high,

Power is not enough

I brought this for almost one year and found that it is very suitable for jazz, instumental playing, it brings me to music heaven every evening. I enjoy it very much.