Description
Platina Integrated
Bold in design and substantial in form, the Quad Platina Integrated delivers reference-grade sound, exceptional power, and peerless finesse.
Typically QUAD, yet offering a new timeless form, reimagined with crisp, modern intent, the PLATINA series retains the soul of its heritage while embracing today’s clean geometry, refined materials, and purposeful simplicity.
An exercise in restraint and refinement, tactile machined aluminium knobs and subtle buttons flank a crisp TFT display, providing a tactile and visual focal point. The disciplined rear panel layout, with gold-plated connectors, speaks to both form and function, ensuring a premium user experience at every touchpoint. The result is strikingly contemporary.
Power By Design
The engine of the flagship series, Platina Integrated boasts a massive new power amplifier section, setting out its stall as a powerhouse of precision. A dual mono class AB design offers 2 x 200W into 8 ohms (300W into 4 ohms) and delivers effortless authority with vast headroom and dynamic control.
Engineered to drive even the most demanding loudspeakers, it combines muscular output with audiophile finesse, resolving the finest musical details with scale, grip, and composure.
The result is an engaging yet transparent sound presentation that honours the artist’s intentions, whether streaming high-resolution files, spinning vinyl classics, or commanding a modern home theatre setup.
At the output stage, the Platina Integrated uses a premium four-channel active volume control. Backed by active circuitry, it allows for precise, step-based volume changes so the volume will increase or decrease feeling natural and consistent to the ear.
Digital Domain
A fully-fledged and truly modern amplifier solution; at the heart of the Platina Integrated digital capabilities lies a state-of-the-art DAC featuring an ES 9038 PRO chip. A hallmark of high-end DAC design, the DAC section uses two high-precision master clocks, one for 44.1 kHz and one for 48 kHz families.
Capitalising on QUAD’s rich history in analogue and digital audio solutions, this DAC chip implementation ensures astonishingly-low jitter levels with improved transparency and imaging for faithful reproduction of digital source material – source materials that can extend into PCM up to 768 kHz and DSD512, allowing for lifelike detail across a wide range of audio formats.
Usability
Despite its wealth of performance options and capabilities, like all Platina components, the Platina Integrated is built around an expertly crafted general user interface (GUI), tactile controls and a full colour TFT display.
This interface improves functionality by making complex settings and features more accessible and intuitive. It allows users to navigate options quickly, view system status at a glance, and adjust parameters with clarity and precision, without needing to remember commands or rely on cryptic button combinations.
Analogue Domain
Platina Integrated can accommodate analogue sources via two pairs of RCA inputs, a pair of balanced XLR inputs, and a dedicated, high-performance MM/MC phono stage.
Each analogue input can be selected via the remote control, and each offers independent input sensitivity via the extensive GUI. In addition, the phono stage’s three selectable gains (46dB, 52dB, 60dB) and selectable input impedance (MM or MC) can be accessed and adjusted to suit the user’s requirements.
This custom-designed phono stage is QUAD’s most advanced phono stage yet. This JFET design enhances the MM/MC functionality by providing a high input impedance, making it ideal for seamless interfacing with MM (moving magnet) and MC (moving coil) cartridges.
Platina Integrated Amplifier, in Black finish, by Quad
Features
- 2 x 200W (8 ohm) / 2 x 300W (4 ohm)
- Class AB Dual Mono Design
- ES9038Pro 32-bit DAC
- Roon Tested
- Highly linear Analogue Volume Control
- 4.3″ 800 x 480 Full View IPS LCD
- Dedicated High-performance Low Noise MM/MC Phono stage with selectable gain (46/52/60dB)
- Dedicated Current-Feedback Headphone Amp
- Support USB Upgrade
Specifications
- Model: Platina Integrated
- General Description: Integrated Amplifier
- Inputs
- 2 x Analogue (RCA), 1 x XLR, 1 x Phono (MM / MC)
- 2 x SPDIF (Coaxial), 2 x SPDIF (Optical)
- 1 x PC USB (Type C), 1 x HDMI ARC
- 1 x 12V Trigger
- Outputs
- 1 x RCA (pair), 1 x XLR (pair), 1 x Stereo Speaker binding post (pair)
- 1 x Optical, 1 x Coaxial, 1 x 12V Trigger
- Sampling Frequency
- Optical / Coaxial: 44.1kHz – 192kHz
- PC USB: 44.1kHz – 768kHz (PCM) / DSD64, DSD128, DSD256, DSD512
- Preamplifier Section
- Gain: 0dB (Line) +46 / +52 / +60dB Adjustable (Phono)
- Input Sensitivity: 1.2Vrms (Line Volume = 0dB)
- Input Sensitivity: 2.4Vrms (XLR Volume = 0dB)
- Input Sensitivity: 5mV (Phono MM, Gain = 46dB, Volume = 0dB)
- Input Sensitivity: 1mV (Phono MC, Gain = 60dB, Volume = 0dB)
- Input Impedance: 50K (Line)
- Input Impedance: 50K // 100pF (Phono MM)
- Input Impedance: 360R // 200pF (Phono MC)
- Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): < 0.0004% (1kHz @ 2V, Volume = 0dB)
- Frequency Response: 20Hz – 20kHz (+/- 0.1dB)
- Output Impedance: 120 ohm
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio: >110dB (Line & XLR, A-weighted)
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio: >78dB (Phono MM, A-weighted)
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio: >70dB (Phono MC, A-weighted)
- DAC
- D to A Converter: ES9038Pro
- Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): <0.001% (1kHz @ 0dBFS)
- Output Level (0dBFS, 1kHz): 2.0Vrms
- Max. Sampling Frequency: Optical / Coaxial: 192kHz
- Max. Sampling Frequency: PC USB: PCM 768kHz, DSD512
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio (S/N): >116dB (A-weighted)
- Power Amplifier Section
- Gain: +30dB
- 2 x 200W (8 ohm, THD <1%)
- 2 x 310W (4 ohm, THD <1%)
- Frequency Response: 20Hz – 20kHz (+/-0.3dB)
- Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): <0.0008% (1kHz @ 100W / 8 ohm)
- Input Sensitivity: 1.2Vrms
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio (S/N): >112dB (A-weighted)
- Max. Output Current: 20A
- Headphone Amplifier
- Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): < 0.01% (1kHz, 50mW)
- Output Impedance: 2.35 ohm
- Load Impedance: 20 – 600 ohm
- General Specifications
- Standby Power Consumption: <0.5W
- Net Weight: 17.1kg
- Gross Weight: 19.3kg
- Dimensions (W x H x D): 445 x 134.5 x 348mm
- Carton Size (W x H x D): 500 x 225 x 450mm
- Finish: Black / Silver
- Power Requirements: 220-240V ~ 50/60Hz
- Power Requirements: 100-120V ~ 50/60Hz
Included
- Power Cord
- Remote Control
- User Manual
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