Through the exercise we discovered the revolutionary OMEGA circuit design, which has no sonic equal. We knew we were embarking on a great adventure when we started the cost-no-barrier design exercise that culminated in the development of the OMEGA Series of amplifiers and preamplifiers. This enables you to have very short speaker wire lengths to each speaker, no matter whether it is driving a center channel, or a fine two channel system, or all the channels of a five or six or more surround sound setup. Now you can place each channel right at each speaker. The monaural Classé CAM-350 is developed using the knowledge gained from the development of our spectacular OMEGA Series amplifiers.
The test bench is where these amps showed their true capabilities. While we were not able to drive these to their full power as our test gear maxes out at 300W, they went right to our limit without any distortion or significant increase in THD.Īll caps are healthy and there are no signs of them ever being over worked or abused.Ĭosmetically both amps are great, just the occasional light scuff or scratch from handling. Nothing noticeable unless you are closely inspecting. It's simple in design and also operation. There's a single power button on the front and an LED that blinks red while warming up, then turning to solid when ready. On boot up you hear lots of protection relays engaging over its warmup period, indicating this is a well thought out design with great protection circuitry. In the listening room these amps drove our reference EgglestonWorks Andras with ease and articulation. Not a hint of strain even at the loudest levels.
Power output equals 8 Ohms with 350 watts, 4 Ohms with 700 watts, and 2 Ohms with 1200 watts - EACH!įirst thing we noticed when testing these beasts is the unique internal component layout and parts quality. Instead of using a small number of storage capacitors, it utilizes a large number of of them with the hopes of improving reliability and speed. Parts quality is of the highest level, utilizing resistors and passive components of the tightest tolerances, and a power transformer capable of driving an arc welder. There are several high quality epoxy PC boards stacked in what is a manageable and compact cabinet without overcrowding. The gentleman that we acquired them from just didn't have the space in his new apartment. Most folks just hang on to them since they are hard to beat. Second set of CAM 350's to arrive at our shop *ever*. Sweet sounding solid state monoblocks from Canadian company Classe Audio.