Enjoy enhanced stereo sound with your favorite pair of speakers and the silver Audiolab 6000A Stereo 100W Integrated Amplifier. It outputs up to 50W per channel at 8 ohms and features Bluetooth connectivity in addition to its two digital coaxial, two optical, and five stereo RCA inputs. One RCA input is a dedicated phono input and is accompanied by a ground screw terminal. An 1/8" headphone jack with discrete amplification enables private listening. The 6000A includes a remote control as an added convenience.
- 2-Channel Amplifier Configuration
- 50W per Channel Power Output @ 8 ohms
- ESS SABRE ES9018K2M DAC
- Bluetooth Audio Input
Audiolab 6000A Overview
Audiolab 6000A Specs
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Audiolab 6000A Reviews
Very Refined and Simple Piece of Gear
I bought this to replace a Denon receiver which was destroyed by a storm-related power surge (before I plugged in this unit, I first put in a much heavier-duty power strip, a Furman PST-8, and upgraded our whole-house surge suppressor to something beefier). I had previously tried a NAD C 338, but did not really like it that much - the screen, remote, user interface, and audio were just not up to the quality I expected, so I returned it. This was my second try. It has the simplicity I was looking for, along with multiple digital inputs. I am using this with a Denon DCD-900NE CD player, which survived the storm, connected to this unit by a Toslink fiber optic cable. I'm also using it with an Audioengine B-Fi, also connected via Toslink. This allows me to play CDs from my collection and also, easily switch to sending audio from an iPhone, iPod, or laptop running the DS Audio application to stream from the music library on my Synology server. This works great. Switching is crisp with the sound of relays clicking and a nice ramp-up of volume to avoid sudden volume mismatch. The controls feel solid and smooth. The sound quality, through some Sony bookshelf speakers, is terrific and detailed, and seems a little flatter and more accurate than the NAD. The NAD remote was terrible - flimsy and without enough functions. This remote feels altogether nicer and is more pleasant to use. It was more expensive to get the version with the silver finish, but I went ahead and got it, because it looks more like an older piece of gear from the seventies or eighties, and looks nicer on the shelf in my basement library. I have not tried the Bluetooth input and will probably not use it much, or the analog inputs, unless I someday wind up connecting a turntable. I will consider moving the Denon CD player elsewhere in the house and adding a matching Audiolab CD player in the future, and possibly other matching components. So far I'm very glad I ditched the NAD and went for the Audiolab. I really see no downsides, except that if they had offered such a model, I would have bought one without Bluetooth.
Realism to the sound
I tested the Rotel Tribute combo(amp&CD) vs Audiolab 6000 (amp&CD) combo. No doubt the Audiolab wins in terms of sound, I don't know all the fancy words to use in this comparison but in my simple language explanation its like this. The Audiolab sound is thicker fuller darker and most of all it has a 3D like feeling to the sound, by the Rotel it seams like the sound is flat on the wall in front of me, by the Audiolab the sound is away from the wall there is air between the instrument and the wall, so its more real experience. The bass is interesting because by the Rotel I can hear a bigger bass, but its nice in the beginning, later I felt its blocking some sound of the other instruments, in other words, its not as balanced the bass with the other sounds. By Audiolab the bass is not sticking out from the rest and I think its more tighter. so its either because the bass is not so boomy or because all the other sounds are punching out same strong as the bass. Anyway, its more pleasing to listen to because of that. from the other hand the Rotel has also a very special sound very detailed, another benefit it has tone controls(and a general sound booster), you can adjust the bass and the treble which makes it very convenient and takes away the problem mentioned above because u can boost the treble and or lower the bass. Still it doesn't give the 3D sound as the Audiolab. one more pro to the Audiolab CDT, you can make fast fwd the song by pressing long the go to next song button, you can NOT do it by the Rotel CD player, only with the Remote controller(very embarrassing). From the other hand a con to the Audiolab CDT, when you press the pause button, if you leave it more than a few minutes it goes back to beginning of the CD (I didn't find any setting to change that - very embarrassing).
