Presented last year at the Munich High End, the Madison Amplifier never saw the light of day in this prototype version, but now appears in an optimized version, of which we have the first worldwide test in Vumètre n°59.
For a quick reminder, let’s recall that immediately after the Munich 2024 trade show, the takeover of Swiss company Wattson Audio was announced by compatriot high-end company CH Precision. The engineers immediately decided to collaborate, with the result that the largest streamers (Madison & Madison LE) were redesigned as one, and the brand-new power amplifier was revised.
A year later, the Madison Amplifier finally saw the light of day, and while it retains the launch case, identical in design but much larger than that of the Streamer, it has benefited from numerous internal modifications. Intended to be bridgeable (i.e., monophonic, to be combined with a second Amp to drive each speaker separately), the Amplifier can now also, like the big CH blocks, become “bi-amp”, i.e., still be used on one side only, but in order to use its two pairs of terminals for the two pairs of speaker terminals (when the latter have four terminals each).
From 2 x 50 W into 8 ohms and up to 2 x 120 W into 2 ohms, the Madison Amplifier can be integrated with a preamp or a source with digital volume control via one RCA and one XLR pair, and is available in Europe at a price of 6 495 €, a substantial but ultimately reasonable price when you consider that the product is now a small CH.
Find out more in our May issue!
08/05/2025