Arcam’s compact Solo Mini
Building on the success of Arcam’s Solo the Solo Mini takes modern trends to their extremes and brings us a sleeker, smaller Solo that even manages to slim the price tag down to a respectable £650 sans speakers.
This miniaturised version of the Solo retains all the performance of its bigger brother and sacrifices just a little loudness whilst being still powerful enough to fill a good sized room for a party or serious music listening.
The Arcam Solo Mini packs the CD player, amplifier, DAB radio and iPod/mp3/USB device support into its single compact aluminium faced box. Everything is accessible via a simply and intuitive operating system and controls have been cleverly placed along the top front edge. There’s even a clock radio with wake to CD or Radio functionality. All this audio goodness is delivered via the 25 watt per channel amplifier.
As a product of Arcam’s 30 years Hi-fi experience and with a re-assuring price tag the Solo Mini is set to impress style and space conscious audiophiles in March 2008.
General
- matching MUSO speakers available
- all metal casework with aluminium fascia and lid
- clear dot matrix display with easy-to-read text
- simple intuitive operating system – elegant system handset
- clock with four alarms – wake up to CD or radio
- size 230 x 350 x 90 – weight 4kg nett
CD player
- CD text, CD-R, CD-RW. WMA, MP3
- 24-bit Wolfson DAC with low jitter crystal clock
- audio outputs and DAC topology from range topping DV139
- convenient slot-loading CD operation
Radio tuner
- high sensitivity integrated DAB/FM/AM or FM/AM tuner
- 30x PM, 30x AM, 10x DAB presets
- separate antenna’s and antenna inputs for DAB/FM/AM
Mobile music devices
- full iPod integration using Arcam rDock / rLead
- front panel USB input for portable music players
- USB playback of MP3 and WMA files with text display
Power amplifiers
- 25w RMS into 8ohms continuous power output
- passive fanless cooling system
- full size speaker binding posts
- toroid transformer based power amp supply
- eleven independently regulated power supplies
Preamplifier
- five line level inputs plus record output
- preamplifier output for external power amps
- front panel mini jack input for MP3 players or games consoles
- front panel headphones mini jack
- infrared jack output to control other sources
- full bass and treble controls
Custom installation
- rear panel RS232 input for function control and software update
- infrared output jack to control other sources
- discrete IR codes for toggled commands (standby, mute, etc.)