I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with the Burmester Phase 3. It needs no excuses made for its performance, because it’s a true high-end system in a box (well, two crates actually). A lot of systems with similar intent trade performance for convenience, but Phase 3 gives you both. Is this the future of high-end? Very possibly, and for that Phase 3 comes highly recommended.
Technical Specifications
Main System
Analogue Inputs: 1x pair balanced XLR
Digital Inputs: 1× RCA, 1× Toslink S/PDIF, 1× Ethernet RJ45, 3× USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0 Type A (rear), 1× USB 2.0 Type A (front)
Analogue outputs: 1x pair balanced XLR, 1x pair single‑ended RCA
Digital outputs: 1× RCA, 1× Toslink S/PDIF
Antenna: 2× coax connectors
Remote connections: 1× RS232, 2× 2.5mm jacks
Headphone output: 1× 6.3mm jack
CD drive: CD-DA
Hard disk: 2× 2TB (RAID)
Display: Green point matrix, 8 character
Audio formats: FLAC/wav/mp3/AIFF/OGG/AAC/ALAC (m4a)/DSD; Stereo 16 and 24 Bit, up to 192 kHz, gapless play by track analysis and intelligent caching
Sampling rate: selected from either 24 bit/96 kHz or 24bit/192 kHz
Storage: SSD drive for system storage, 2× 2 TB hard drive capacity for music data storage, RAID 1 system (security with two mirrored hard drives, 2 TB usable)
Play functions: Audio CD, Internet radio services, Music‑Player, USB‑stick
USB: Music playback, playlist export
Analogue compensation of level jumps between individual tracks
Integration of TIDAL streaming service and Highresaudio service
Web‑Browser Interface on HTML5
High End rip‑function
Exclusive music database containing over 3,500,000 titles for matching file data from ripped CDs
Power output: 120W per channel (four ohms)
Frequency Response: 5Hz-60kHz (–3dB)
Distortion (THD+N): 0.015%
Signal/Noise ratio: > 74dB
Damping factor: > 250
Loudspeakers
Type: two-way rear ported design
Drive units: AMT tweeter, 170mm glassfibre woofer cone
System Dimensions (W×D×H): 573×628×420mm (loft style), 632×633x×48mm (Retro Style)
Weight: 39kg (loft), 30kg (Retro)
Price: £23,800
Manufactured by: Burmester
URL: www.burmester.de
Tel: +49 30 787 968 0