Canadian high-end AV manufacturer Anthem has announced the AVM 50v (Audio/Video Master 50v) music preamp and home cinema processor.
Following in the footsteps of its benchmark big brother, the Statement D2v, the AVM 50v promises similar advanced technologies for significantly less outlay.
It’s a fully featured 7.1-channel audio and video processor with eight HDMI inputs, broadcast-quality digital video processing, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, XLRs, 1080p upscaling, Anthem Room Correction, and two stereo zones.
It also features the latest Sigma Designs VXP broadcast-quality digital video processing for deep colour while offering improved noise reduction through block artefact and mosquito noise reduction.
Two new dual-core audio Digital Signal Processing (DSP) engines, designed in-house by Anthem, offer a total of 800 million instructions per second (MIPS) of processing power to allow decoding of the new Dolby, DTS and other HD audio standards.
Anthem has upgraded its pulse-code modulation (PCM) input to support 7.1 channels at 24bits or 192kHz and the receiver also contains a programmable equalizer and a Clock Data Recovery (CDR) function for each of the three TMDS pairs in an HDMI or DVI signal for vanishingly low jitter.
The Anthem AVM 50v is available now for £5,999.