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07 Feb 2023
LINDEMANN MUSIC COMBO > HIFI+ WINNER AWARD
... for best Integrated Streaming Amplifier of the year 2022
Lindemann’s elegant little box is a deceptively powerful and flexible device. Delivering a healthy 70W into eight ohms, the amp includes a network player, DAC, and MM phono stage and two line-level analogue inputs. You can connect it to A2DP-compatible Bluetooth devices, local network, and online streaming services via a router, you can play thumb drives or even CDs from a CD-ROM drive inserted into the rear USB connector. There’s a good quality headphone socket. Everything is driven from Lindemann’s own iOS or Android app, and there’s a healthily sized yellow OLED read-out on the front panel. Controls on the amp itself are minimal, just a power button and a jog wheel, but this last doubles up as volume and source selector. There is also a mini-remote with track handling functionality, but consider this an adjunct to the app.
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The Lindemann Musicbook Combo is one of the ways good audio reaches those it presently cannot. It’s small enough to be domestically acceptable. It’s powerful enough to drive the loudspeakers it will most likely partner with and sounds good while doing so. It’s made to be not just appchummy but live happily in that domain and the app itself works extremely well. If this is the face of audio’s future, it’s a bright and rosy one!
Lindemann Musicbook Combo
HIFI+
Lindemann’s elegant little box is a deceptively powerful and flexible device. Delivering a healthy 70W into eight ohms, the amp includes a network player, DAC, and MM phono stage and two line-level analogue inputs. You can connect it to A2DP-compatible Bluetooth devices, local network, and online streaming services via a router, you can play thumb drives or even CDs from a CD-ROM drive inserted into the rear USB connector. There’s a good quality headphone socket. Everything is driven from Lindemann’s own iOS or Android app, and there’s a healthily sized yellow OLED read-out on the front panel. Controls on the amp itself are minimal, just a power button and a jog wheel, but this last doubles up as volume and source selector. There is also a mini-remote with track handling functionality, but consider this an adjunct to the app.
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The Lindemann Musicbook Combo is one of the ways good audio reaches those it presently cannot. It’s small enough to be domestically acceptable. It’s powerful enough to drive the loudspeakers it will most likely partner with and sounds good while doing so. It’s made to be not just appchummy but live happily in that domain and the app itself works extremely well. If this is the face of audio’s future, it’s a bright and rosy one!
Lindemann Musicbook Combo
HIFI+