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Marantz PM-11S3 Integrated Ampliﬁer

ON TEST

one of those companies that still holds the LP

in high esteem as a music source. So much so

that Marantz one of the few large multina-

tional companies that is still selling turnta-

bles. Some of these are made for it by other

companies (ones that specialise in building

turntables) but I understand that other

turntables in its range are made in Japan by

Marantz itself. No doubt Marantz has also

been keeping a weather eye on the turntable

market, and has noted (along with everyone

else!) that sales of both LPs and turntables are

on the rise…to the extent that in the United

Kingdom, sales of LP records in 2013 doubled

that of 2012, and overall, more LPs were sold

in 2013 than were sold back in 2001!

Signiﬁcantly, according to the British

Phonograph Industry, 35.3 per cent of vinyl

buyers in the UK in 2013 were under 35 years

of age. No doubt the rise is also due to an

excellent incentive offered by some record

companies (and Amazon), whereby if you

buy an LP, you get a ‘rip’ of the LP for free.

Although the PM-11S has MM/MC circuit-

ry, you should note that there’s only a single

phono input, which is switched between MM

and MC, so you can’t connect two turnta-

bles at the same time, with different phono

cartridges, and switch between them.

As noted earlier, the PM-11S3 has both

‘pre-out’ and ‘main-in’ facilities, so you can

use the unit as a pre-amp and send a line-

level signal out to an external power ampli-

ﬁer, or you can use an external preampliﬁer

and use the PM-11S3’s power ampliﬁer to

drive your speakers. However you cannot do

both at the same time: you have to use the

PM-11S3 either as an integrated ampliﬁer

only, a pre-amp only or as a power

amp only. Although this is unlikely

to be limiting, there are one or two

(admittedly fairly esoteric!) applica-

MARANTZ PM-11S3

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

Brand: Marantz

Model: PM-11S3

Category: Integrated Ampliﬁer

RRP: $9,560

Warranty: Three Years

Distributor: Qualiﬁ Pty Ltd

Address: 24 Lionel Road

Mt Waverley VIC 3149

1800 242 426

(03) 8542 1111

info@qualiﬁ.com.au

www.qualiﬁ.com.au

Readers interested in a full technical

appraisal of the performance of the

Marantz PM-11S3 Integrated Ampliﬁer

should continue on and read the

LABORATORY REPORT published on

page 48. Readers should note that

the results mentioned in the report,

tabulated in performance charts and/

or displayed using graphs

and/or photographs should be

construed as applying only to

the speciﬁc sample tested.

Lab Report on page 48

• High power

• Very low distortion

• Bulletproof build

quality

• Bright lights

• Owner’s manual

LAB REPORT

The equipmenT

As you can see for yourself, the front panel

design of the PM-11S3 is perfectly sym-

metrical, perhaps reﬂecting the concept of

the perfectly symmetrically circuit layout

within… but I suspect just to satisfy someone

somewhat higher-up in the corporate peck-

ing order than the head of Marantz’s design

team. (I often wonder what goes on in meet-

ings about control layout. If the electrical

engineers allocate only seven ‘user’ buttons,

do the designers go back and ask them to in-

clude another circuit, so they can have eight

buttons, to allow them to put four down each

side? Or in a case where the engineers want

nine buttons on the front panel, does the

design team make them take one away or…

more likely, make that function only acces-

sible via the remote control?)

In the case of the Marantz PM-11S3 I

suspect I am speculating spectacularly idly,

because despite the symmetrical layout,

there seemed to be no superﬂuous switches,

nor any desirable controls missing… though

the bass and treble tone controls—and the

balance control—which are nearly always

ﬁxtures on ampliﬁer front panels, were

conspicuously absent, and instead needed to

be invoked by using buttons on the remote

control.

The lighting is also beautiful, so a lot of

thought has gone into this as well, but it’s

fairly bright… presumably to make the PM-

11S3 stand out in a hi-ﬁ store. There is no

facility for dimming the front-panel lighting,

but you can certainly turn it off if you like,

by pressing and holding (for more than two

seconds) the ‘Display’ button on the front

panel.

The fact that the PM-11S3 not only has

a phono stage, but one that accommodates

both moving-magnet (MM) and moving-coil

(MC) phono cartridges shows that Marantz is

tions where it would be useful to be able to

separate the pre- and power sections elec-

tronically and use them individually. Perhaps

on the PM-11S4?

The instruction manual supplied with the

PM-11S3 is high quality and the instruc-

tions are for the most part excellent, though

the same cannot be said for the instruction

manual’s index, where instead of Volume

adjustment being under ‘V’, Tone Controls

under ‘T’ and Standby under ‘S’, as you’d ex-

pect, all three are listed under ‘A’ for Adjust.

Mmmm. Can we blame Microsoft’s indexing

function for this, or someone at Marantz?

In common with many modern hi-ﬁ

components, Marantz has built automatic

standby circuitry into the PM-11S3, whereby

if no music has been playing for at least 30

Power Output: Both channels driven into

8-ohm, 4-ohm and 2-ohm non-inductive

loads at 20Hz, 1kHz and 20kHz. [PM-11S3]

Newport Test Labs

Power Output: Single and both

channels driven into 8-ohm, 4-ohm

and 2-ohm non-inductive loads at

20Hz, 1kHz and 20kHz. [PM-11S3]

Newport Test Labs

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