Peachtree Audio Carina Gloss Mocha- Preowned

Peachtree Audio Carina Amplifier in Gloss Mocha
-Direct from Peachtree Audio

Received during our trade up program, these amplifiers have been inspected by our in-house technicians and perform and function as new.  The owner's manual and accessories are included. We back your preowned Carina with a 1-year warranty when registered on our website. 

This original Carina does NOT have analog inputs. 
 

What is Carina?

Carina is Peachtree Audio's new flagship integrated amplifier. It combines several of the sound quality enhancements introduced in the nova500 with the power and price point of the nova300. It is Peachtree Audio's first product with the critically acclaimed Hypex N-Core amplifier technology built-in. Carina also brings several new features to a Peachtree amplifier for the first time.

Why we made Carina

Very simply, to establish a new benchmark for integrated amplifiers at its price. Our ongoing testing of available technologies identified a combination of DAC, preamplifier and power amplifier technologies that worked extremely well together to create an exceptional listening experience at a reasonable price. Carina is an easy-to-use, highly transparent integrated amplifier that drives a wide range of speakers (and headphones!) with ease, and accepts up to 6 digital inputs including Bluetooth.

Carina highlights

• Two ESS 9068 DAC chips, dual mono (one for the left channel, one for the right channel)
• Accepts HD audio input up to 768k PCM and 512k DSD
• Selectable digital filter settings including oversampling on/off
• Full MQA decoding on ALL inputs
• I2S input

• Fully balanced analog circuitry from the DACs to the power and headphone amplifiers
• High-performance, hybrid volume control (combination analog resistor ladder/digital attenuation)
• User selectable all-digital volume control option
• Bluetooth 5.0 input with HD audio decoding

• 300 watts-per-channel Hypex NCore power amplifier driving the speaker outputs
• Fully-balanced headphone amplifier with a 4.4mm T/R/R/S output (1/4" unbalanced output also provided)

• Timeless Peachtree Audio industrial design crafted out of aluminum, wrapped in real wood, and finished in gloss ebony mocha or piano black
• High-quality OLED front panel display with an intuitive dual knob user interface
• Trigger input for power on/off control from another device
• Hand-held remote control with integrated commands for Bluesound devices (NODE, VAULT, etc.)

How does Carina sound?

It is our best sounding integrated amplifier to date, period. Even better than the highly regarded nova500, the Grand Integrated and the classic nova and decco amplifiers that have come before. To celebrate this achievement we have broken with tradition and given it a unique name: Carina. Carina is a name in the Italian language that roughly translates to “pretty" and is derived from the Latin word Carus that means “beloved." We are confident that Carina looks and performs better than anything else in its price range - and many products that cost significantly more - and that Carina will earn a place in your heart and mind, too!

How does Carina compare to the nova300?
Simply stated, Carina is better sounding. It has a superior DAC, preamplifier, power amplifier and headphone amplifier. Each of these functions has been upgraded to take advantage of recent technology advancements and integrated in a design with several small but significant enhancements to achieve remarkable sound quality.

Features in Carina that are not available in the nova300

• Dual DAC chip design
• HD audio input up to 768k PCM and 512 DSD
• Full MQA decoding on ALL inputs
• Fully balanced circuitry from the DACs to the power and headphone amplifiers
• Fully balanced headphone output
• High-performance, hybrid volume control (combination analog resistor ladder/digital attenuation)
• Bluetooth 5.0 input with HD audio decoding
• OLED front panel display with large characters
• Numeric volume control range
• Trigger input (nova300 has a trigger output)