Onkyo Icon M-80 Power Amplifier

A 130 W Class-AB amp that's a perfect match for the P-80 preamp

The Icon series is visually a nod to the past, but sonically the culmination of Onkyo’s accumulated and continuously evolving sound creation technologies. With a three-stage Inverted Darlington Amplifier and great attention paid to vibration suppression, the Onkyo M-80 Power Amplifier powerfully drives large speakers to deliver dynamic full-range audio that will captivate and move you.

The Onkyo M-80 Power Amplifier uses a three-stage inverted Darlington amplifier. circuit. This is a layered transistor output design where a driver and power transistor are tied together with feedback, and then fed by an additional gain stage. It has a very low output impedance and powerfully drives speakers with a large current. Additionally, by keeping negative feedback low, it’s not affected by extra noise from the speaker, offering a powerful yet highly resolving and informative sound. The M-80’s output stage transistors are in parallel configuration, providing excellent instantaneous current supply capability, further enhancing the rise of sound and the sense of power. The driver stage of the M-80 amplifier uses DIDRC (Dynamic Intermodulation Distortion Reduction Circuitry), which reduces noise in the ultra-high frequency band with DIDRC’s High Slew Rate Design and helps produce the natural sound of an analog record.

The Onkyo M-80 Power Amplifier features a custom high-current power supply to provide dynamic full-range sound, and an extruded aluminum heat sink that suppresses vibration. The addition of high-quality 10000uF capacitors custom-made exclusively for Onkyo, Hi-Fi grade terminals (both speaker output and audio input terminals), copper bus bars, and a robust vibration-proof front panel ensures powerful, world-class playback.

The M-80 housing consists of two aluminum side panels and a steel top panel. This three-piece housing construction increases rigidity and improves seismic resistance for an altogether improved sound quality.

Specifications

Output Power (8 ohm, 4 ohm): 130 W, 200 W

Amplifier Type: Class AB

Analog Audio Input: RCA unbalanced, 1 pair; XLR balanced, 1 pair

12 V Trigger Input: 1/8" (3.5 mm) jack

Power Consumption: 445 W, 51 W idle, less than 0.3 W standby

Dimensions (WHD): 17.1" x 5.3" x 13.6" (435 x 135 x 345 mm)

Weight: 29.8 lb. (13.5 kg)