![]() ![]() ![]() It has rated power of 60 watts per channel operating in Class AB. The A12 is one of two new stereo integrated amps. The company offers an assortment that includes integrated amps, a preamp, power amp, DAC, and CD player (remember CD players?) for home theater, there’s a Class D AVR, a pre/pro, a fivechannel amp, and wholehouse distribution amps. Rotel operates in both the two-channel and multichannel worlds. It’s the amp for those who connect every conceivable signal source with cables but reserve the right to hedge their bets-in this case, with Bluetooth aptX that offers the convenience of pushing music to the system wirelessly from a compatible device. The Rotel A12 stereo integrated amplifier doesn’t have network audio features-but it does have the desired PC-friendly USB input, along with an iOS-friendly USB input, a moving-magnet phono input, and the usual complement of digital and analog inputs. AVRs and streaming amps tend to rely on wired and wireless network connections rather than on a USB port and asynchronous digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that can take over the clocking functions of the digital bit transfer and reduce the effects of jitter. Yet this desirable feature is tantalizingly rare. It’s simple, it’s direct, and it enables the computer to feed bits to the system and rely on the system’s digital-to-analog conversion. Connecting a computer to an audio system with a USB cable seems a perfectly logical idea.
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