Hi All,

I just wanted to write a quick blog to say that yesterday we took delivery of our demo PMC COR amplifier, a lot of people probably don’t realise that PMC have been making amps for around 25 years for all their active speakers but it is a first for them to release a domestic amplifier for home use.

Firstly I have to comment on the build quality, it really is quite stunning and as a piece of design it really looks the part, much better in the flesh than the pictures to be fair, also the addition of treble and bass controls will be a welcome addition for a lot of people, and quite rare nowadays, don’t worry though as there is also a bypass function to take this out the loop for the absolute purists out there. The treble and bass sliders are taken from the recording studio mixing desks and really have a quality feel to them but even better is the fact that you can adjust them from the comfort of your arm chair with the supplied remote, very cool.

We have been lucky to be one of the first to get ours but I think availability is going to be quite limited to start with as they are all hand build at PMC HQ, and to be fair I don’t think PMC really know how popular this is going to be as it is a new venture for them, although on first impressions anyone looking for a highend integrated will definitely put the COR on their audition list, so basically the first 50 are going to be available in silver with the PMC 25 year anniversary logo printed on the top plate, once these are all sold then silver and black finishes will be the options.

As for sound quality, PMC have designed this to be neutral but musical if that makes sense, the idea is to not impart any character onto the recording so in theory it just becomes a volume control but really is capable of driving most passive speakers, we love the PMC Fact.12′s here but they are not the easiest speaker to drive well but the COR really does take them in it’s stride and really makes them sing, please see below for an excellent review of the COR from Jason Kennedy at The EAR.

http://hifilounge.co.uk/PMC-Speakers-Cor-amplifier

If you think this could be the amp for you please feel free to get in touch to arrange a demo, thanks.

As ever please find a few pictures below.

PMC Logo is the touch sensitive ON/OFF button.

Cheers,
Paul.