Peachtree Audio Carina GaN- Gloss Mocha- Recertified- Direct from Manufacturer

SAVE ON A FACTORY RECERTIFIED CARINA GaN!

Peachtree recertified products are inspected by our in-house technicians and perform and function as new. They may have minor cosmetic blemishes. The owner's manual and accessories are included. We back your recertified Carina GaN with our same-as-new two year warranty, extended to three years if registered online.
 

Carina GaN
Integrated Amplifier with GaN Power Amplifier

Regular price: $2,999.00

• 200 watts per channel GaN power amplifier with independent power supply
• DAC-less “power DAC” design with zero feedback
• 4 digital audio inputs including USB-C
• Analog input configurable as Phono (Moving Magnet), AUX or Home Theater Bypass
• Bluetooth v5 wireless input
• OLED front panel display

The Carina GaN

The Carina GaN is a 200 watts-per-channel integrated amplifier incorporating the revolutionary GaN-FET technology found in the Peachtree GaN 1. It provides a musical path to your speakers that is remarkably direct and artifact-free. Want to hear all of the intricate details in your music that have always been there but you couldn't quite hear before? The Carina GaN is for YOU! It accepts 5 digital inputs including Bluetooth plus an analog input switchable between MM phono and AUX and will drive virtually any speaker with authority, dynamics and finesse.

What makes the Carina GaN special?

First and foremost is the GaN-FET amplifier module. It has several inherent advantages in a power amplifier that even the best MOS-FET designs simply cannot achieve. A GaN-FET power stage provides a precise high-power reproduction of the Class-D PWM signal with extremely high linearity. This linearity eliminates the need for ANY feedback, ultimately allowing for the best possible audio quality providing clean, clear middle and high frequencies and a tight, solid reproduction of low frequencies. GaN-FETs track the complex audio waveforms so much more accurately than MOS-FETs resulting in significantly more transparent and natural sound. The difference is something even a casual listener will hear and appreciate.
The Carina GaN is designed so that it does NOT even require a digital-to-analog-converter (DAC) for its digital sources. The digital audio signal at the input of the Carina GaN directs the amplifier outputs to drive the speakers. That's it - no DAC needed! Just a direct musical path from your digital source to your speakers. And for your analog sources the Carina GaN utilizes a high-end AKM analog to digital converter to achieve the cleanest path possible to the GaN-FET power module.

Carina GaN highlights
 
Digital

• Two ESS 9068 DAC chips, dual mono (one for the left channel, one for the right channel)
  [Carina GaN DACs used for the headphone and preamp outputs only]

• Accepts HD audio input up to 768k PCM and 512k DSD

• Selectable digital filter settings including oversampling on/off

Analog

• Moving Magnet (MM) phono input switchable to line level (AUX) or Home Theater Bypass (HTB)

Preamplifier

• Fully balanced analog circuitry

• High-performance, hybrid volume control (combination analog resistor ladder/digital attenuation)

• User selectable all-digital volume control option

• Bluetooth 5.0 input with HD audio decoding

• Preamp output for connecting to a powered subwoofer or external power amplifier

Amplifier

• Power DAC topology [The Carina GaN amplifier performs the digital to analog conversion function for the speaker outputs]

• 200 watts-per-channel GaN power amplifier with separate regulated power supply [Same output power from 4-8 Ohms]

• Fully-balanced headphone amplifier with a 4.4mm T/R/R/R/S output (1/4" unbalanced output also provided)

Other

• Timeless Peachtree Audio industrial design crafted out of aluminum, wrapped in real wood, and finished in gloss ebony mocha or piano black

• High-quality OLED front panel display with an intuitive dual knob user interface

• Trigger input and output for power on/off control to or from another device

• Hand-held remote control with integrated commands for Bluesound devices (NODE, VAULT, etc.)

How does Carina sound?

Carina amplifiers are our best sounding integrated amplifiers ever, period. Even better than the highly regarded nova series, the Grand Integrated and the original classic nova and decco amplifiers that have come before. And to celebrate this achievement we have broken with tradition and given it a unique name: Carina.
How does Carina compare to the nova150/300/500?
Simply stated, model for model Carina is better. It has a superior DAC, preamplifier, power amplifier and headphone amplifier. Each of these functions has been upgraded to take advantage of recent technology advancements and integrated in a design with several small but significant enhancements to achieve remarkable sound quality.

Features in Carina that are not available in the nova series:

• Dual DAC chip design

HD audio input up to 768k PCM and 512 DSDFull MQA decoding on ALL inputsFully balanced circuitry from the DACs to the power and headphone amplifiersFully balanced headphone outputHigh-performance, hybrid volume control (combination analog resistor ladder/digital attenuation)Bluetooth 5.0 input with HD audio decodingOLED front panel display with large charactersNumeric volume control rangeTrigger input and output (nova150/300/500 have a trigger output)