#Mission cyrus 1 whathifi Bluetooth#

Midrange clarity was superb, showing the finesse of Rudy Van GelderвЂ™s engineering. And perform it did! On Kenny DorhamвЂ™s superb album Una Mas (Blue Note ST 84127, Japanese reissue), the onboard phono showed a great amount of clarity and finesse, with a sure-footed sense of timing. I kicked off the listening with vinyl вЂ“ I was curious to see how the onboard passively filtered MM phono stage would perform. I also tried out the headphone output with a pair of Focal Elex headphones. On the outputs, I tested the amp with a pair of Q Acoustics Concept 500s as well as two pairs of LS 3/5as driven in parallel in a double formation (per Ken KesslerвЂ™s suggestion in HiFi News and Record Review).

#Mission cyrus 1 whathifi Bluetooth#

I tested the ONE HD with a variety of sources вЂ“ Roon server to a Sonore Microrendu driving the USB input, a Sony HAP-Z1ES via analogue single-ended, Bluetooth from an Astell and Kern Kann for aptX HD transmission, vinyl courtesy of my Denon DP80/Micro Seiki MA505X arm, with an Audio Technica VM 540ML MM cartridge, EAR 834P phono stage as well as the onboard phono. There is no supplied remote control, but a companion control app (available on the Google Play and Apple App stores) connected via Bluetooth worked well, though adjusting the volume can be a little fiddly вЂ“ the main volume slider is capped by a max volume setting in the settings pane. No tone controls as such on this amplifier, given its fairly вЂњpuristвЂќ approach. The power switch is a push button under the source selector. The case is true to Cyrus design, being a well-built and dense half-width unit with a source selector knob on the left, and the volume on the right (a digital encoder with LEDs show your volume setting). There is also a quarter-inch TRS headphone jack running off a Class A/B headphone amp. There are two sets of speaker outputs per channel вЂ“ which make bi-wiring a doddle вЂ“ driven from Class D amps specified for 100W per channel into a six-ohm load. On the analogue side, there is an MM phono input and three line-level phono inputs, one of which can be configured for fixed-gain AV application. Optical Toslink and co-axial SPDIF inputs accept PCM data up to 24/192. A USB-B input serves as an asynchronous digital input, capable for PCM up to 32-bit/192kHz and DSD64 and 128. Bringing it right up to date is a plethora of inputs: Bluetooth, with aptX HD capable, as well as aptX and fall back to SBC. When the chance came to review this amplifier, I jumped at it, as the very first truly hi-fi amp which I bought with my own money was a Mission Cyrus One Mk II вЂ“ an amazing little shoebox unit which could embarrass amplifiers in price brackets above it.ДЇast forward more than 25 years and the Cyrus ONE HD is here, still in the half-width shoebox chassis, but electronically, all has been revised. вЂ“ Stage depth isnвЂ™t quite as deep as more esoteric amps tonal balance can be a little lean with some speakers can also be a bit cold if not matched well with the right speakers volume always set low on powering on no IR remote, companion app can be a little fiddly sometimes.Д¬YRUS has been in the electronics business for quite some while, first as a spin-off from Mission, but now on its own with a line of mid-to-high-end electronics which have won plaudits from many customers and critics. + Detailed, involving sound, with large sound staging open midrange, with nicely balanced upper end and good extension fast and lean bass and good pace, rhythm and timing very fine passive MM phono stage good digital and analogue connectivity with a fine internal DAC.