Specifications

P2 / P5 MULTICHANNEL AMPLIFIERS
PERFORMANCE FROM THE HEART
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In life we admire “heart.” When we say someone has heart we mean
passion, spirit, fortitude. And we applaud it. While the amplifier is the
brawn behind every successful music and movie presentation, it is
also the heart! Its role is as crucial as that of the speakers in its
ability to render delicate musical detail one moment and deliver
room-shaking explosions the next. The most exquisite pieces of
music fall flat without clean, quiet power to sustain them through to
their natural, musical ebb. Movie special effects require an
inordinate supply of stable high-current power to give visceral
credibility to the “special” aspect of each effect! In fact, all truly
successful sound reproduction requires “heart.”
The heart of an amplifier rests with its design and it is here that P2
and P5 amplifiers reveal their high-end lineage. Our commitment to
edge-of-the-art design includes multi-layered, hand-designed
circuit
boards with thick two-ounce copper traces; rugged, independent
power supplies with tuned toroidal power transformers for each
amplifier channel; fourteen rugged bipolar output devices per channel
for an overdesigned output stage; massive custom-designed,
convection-cooled heatsinks with serrated fins; a “no-fuse” design.
And the list goes on.
“To say, as Anthem does in its literature, that the Statement D1 and P5
can ‘recreate the passion a music lover experiences when attending a
live musical performance, or the thrilling sound a movie buff
experiences in the very best movie theaters’ is an understatement.
The D1 preamp/processor/tuner and P5 multichannel power amplifier
are the best home-theater components I have heard in my system,
and it was a joy to review them.”
– Gary Altunian, The Perfect Vision