M6 Encore 225 (DISCONTINUED) - Overview

The Musical Fidelity Encore 225 is perfect for anyone who wants to combine the incredible power, realism and emotional involvement of our M6si amplifier with a high-quality M3 CD player and accessibility web radio and Spotify Connect.

Design + Build

The Encore 225 is easy and intuitive to use. It has 225 watts per channel and a huge range of facilities. It features timeless hardware and massive build-quality that Musical Fidelity is known for. The plethora of input and output options are there to make the Encore a mainstay in your music system. You will enjoy the hardware’s excellent performance, facilities and power for decades to come and add modern streaming sources as they develop. Webradio and Spotify Connect are built in to get you started with the basics.

Full colour display with hardware frontpanel buttons

All Encore functions can be accessed via the frontpanel! Being able to browse the Encore with the buttons on the frontpanel (or IR remote) makes the Encore totally unique and perfect for anyone who values traditional high-end build quality and fast access without the need to have your phone or app nearby!

Control via Squeezebox Apps

The Encore can be comfortably controlled via your Squeezebox app of choice on your phone or mobile device.

The diverse control options and the ability to fully control the Encore on the frontpanel make it future-proof, so that in 20 years, when the digital infrastructure will be completely different from today, your Encore will continue to play music like on day one.

The Encore 225 In Brief

State of the art integrated amplifier with 3 analog inputs, 4 digital inputs
M6si hardware built-in
M3 CD Player
High quality aluminium chassis with hardware buttons on the front in pristine build quality
Large, high resolution, full colour display allows easy and intuitive controls
Full control via front-panel hardware buttons, IR remote, Squeezebox Apps and web-interface
Web-radio and Spotify Connect

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M6 Encore 225 (DISCONTINUED) - Design and Build

The Encore is easy and intuitive to use. It has 225 watts per channel and a huge range of facilities; 3 analog inputs, 4 digital inputs, 4 USB A connections (one of which has high current capacity for charging phones and tablets), network connectivity, high quality headphone amplifier, fixed and variable line level outputs as well as a digital output. The Encore has an inbuilt CD player and upgradeable 1TB hard disk drive for storage - enough for over 2500 CDs.

The heart of the Encore is a powerful dual core 64 bit Intel CPU with 2GB of RAM. This provides superb performance and allows continual upgrading of its facilities making the Encore virtually future proof.

M6 Encore 225 (DISCONTINUED) - Specifications

Amplifier

Power output: 225 Watts per channel into 8 Ohms
THD (+ noise): <0.007 % typical 20Hz - 20 kHz
Signal to Noise Ratio: >107dB ‘A’ - weighted
Frequency Response: +0, –0.1dB, 10Hz to 20 kHz

Inputs

3 x Line Level RCA 300mV nominal 2V typical up to 7V rms
2 x optical S/PDIF 24 bit inputs up to 192kHz
2 x coax S/PDIF 24 bit inputs up to 192kHz
10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet connector

Outputs

1x line level FIXED 2.0V @ 0dBFS (300mV rms nominal, >6V rms max)
1x line level PREAMP variable outputs (>6V rms max) (Preamp gain, line input to PREAMP outputs is 4.5x (13dB) at maximum volume)
Headphone output suitable for headphones impedance 8 ohms to ∞. (Headphone output features independent volume setting)
Speaker outputs 1 pair 4mm banana plugs per channel
1x optical S/PDIF 24-bit output up to 192kHz
1x coax S/PDIF 24-bit output up to 192kHz