Parasound Halo HINT 6 Stereo Integrated Amplifier

A 160 W, high-bias class A and AB amp designed by John Curl. With onboard DAC, HT bypass, headphone amp, MM/MC phonostage.

With power amp circuitry designed by the legendary John Curl, the Parasound Halo HINT 6 is a hugely powerful high-bias class-A with AB operation. It has an onboard Sabre DAC with USB DSD input, USB 384/32 PCM, and coax and optical up to 192/24.

The phonostage will support moving magnet, moving coil, and moving iron cartridges. There is a home theater bypass and front panel subwoofer level control for easy integration into a cinema system. There is a dedicated high-current headphone amp, and bass and treble controls.

The oversized, shielded toroidal power supply, and power amp stage are both dual mono, and there is 40,000 uF of power supply filter capacitance. Matched JFET input stages perfectly synch with MOSFET driver stages featuring 12 high voltage/high current bipolar output transistors

Features

• Bass & treble controls with relay bypass from remote or front panel
• Rear panel IR input and IR loop output jacks
• 12 Volt trigger output
• Back-lit remote control with discrete buttons
• Analog bass management with high & low pass crossovers
• Dedicated high-current headphone amplifier (TI TPA6120)

Specifications

Power Output (8, 4 ohm): 180 W, 270 W

Inputs
Digital:  USB, coax, 2 x optical
Analog: Stereo RCA phono, 5 x stereo RCA line, stereo XLR, stereo RCA HT bypass, 2 x RCA sub, 12 V trigger

Outputs: stereo XLR preamp, XLR sub, stereo RCA fixed, 2 x RCA sub, stereo RCA pre

Dimensions (WHD): 17-1/4″ x 5-7/8″ x 16-1/4″

Weight: 33 lb.