Hegel H190 Integrated Amplifier 2x 150 Watts

H190 - The Versatile

The H190 is an amplifier with DLNA streaming capabilities that can play music from any streaming platform including AirPlay. With configurable inputs, a high-end DAC, and a front-facing headphone output you can enjoy ease of use with ultimate sound quality.

In anodised black aluminium with an OLED display, the H190 is beautiful enough to be the centrepiece in any system and powerful enough to drive almost any loudspeaker on the market.

Key Features:
• 2 x 150 W/8 Ω
• 6 Digital & 3 Analogue Inputs
• Balanced & Unbalanced Analogue Inputs
• SoundEngine 2 Technology
• DualAmp Technology
• DualPower Technology
• Apple AirPlay
• Spotify Connect
• Roon Ready
• Control4 Ready
• UPnP Streaming
• Headphone Output
• Software Upgradeable
• Available in Black or White Finish

 "The Listening"

"The Hegel H190 shows remarkable clarity and transparency for an amplifier of this price. From the moment that you cue up one of your favourite tracks, what stands out is the purity of the sound. It has an appealing midrange, with a broadly neutral tonality. This amplifier also displays excellent grip, being obviously able to drive a wide range of loudspeakers in an authoritative way. From big studio monitors to more traditional standmount speakers, the H190 provides ample power to drive them easily. It's unlikely that you will encounter any limitations when it comes to matching this amplifier to your choice of speakers, making it a truly versatile unit."

Read the full review by Craig Joyce on StereoNET

The Hegel embodiment of Powerful Design

With a damping factor of over 4000, the H190 is powerful enough to drive almost any loudspeaker currently on the market, especially the big ones! Plug in your loudspeakers and start streaming music over AirPlay, or any other DLNA streamer, quickly and easily. The high-end DAC ensures precision decoding, providing the best foundation of sound for your entire set-up. The 2x150-watt SoundEngine2 error cancelling amplifier prevents distortion and preserves the details and dynamic range in the original music signal.

The H190 also features a sturdy 6.3mm Headphone output that is front facing, so you can easily plug and unplug as your listening style changes over the course of a day. With powerful technology inside of a modern casing, the H190 is the Hegel embodiment of Powerful Design.

Crafted From the Ground Up by Hegel

The digital-to-analog conversion is of the highest quality in the H190, with technology crafted from the ground up by Hegel.

"We take full control of the digital data stream, using technology developed from our absolute reference products, ensuring digital music delivery in its purest form."

The result is perfectly natural sound, without any artefacts that make you want to turn the volume down. The H190 has Apple Airplay, Spotify Connect, IP Control, Control4 and UPnP streaming. More features are already in progress and will be offered at no cost, using the easy software update functionality. All inputs are configurable for volume bypass, so you can integrate in a home theatre or with a Bluesound or Sonos device for example. Whatever you want, you can do it with the H190.

SoundEngine2 Technology

The H190 uses the Hegel SoundEngine 2 amplifier platform allowing a damping factor higher than 4000 together with extremely low distortion levels. In many ways it works like a noise-cancelling headphone. It compares the output of the amplifier with the input. It detects all the sound pollution (distortion), and plays this forward into the speaker output, but in reverse phase. Like 1 minus 1 equals 0. It cancels out all pollution in real time, leaving you with only the most natural sound.

The SoundEngine technology has been developed over more than 30 years, from conception to where it is now. Millions of dollars were invested in initial development. It is what makes possible the sound performance for the money in the H190.

DualAmp Technology

In normal audio amplifiers, the voltage gain stages and current gain stages are combined in the same amplifier module.

DualAmp Technology from Hegel separates the voltage gain stage and the current gain stage into two completely different stages. First, the music signal goes to the voltage gain stage, amplifying only the voltage level of the music signal. By doing only voltage gain in this first stage, we can use amplifier building blocks that are specially designed to do voltage amplification. After the separate voltage gain stage, we have the current gain stage, doing only current gain and nothing else.

The Hegel DualAmp technology gives lower total distortion and a higher dynamic range than normal audio amplifiers. The Hegel DualAmp technology is developed in-house by Hegel and is only found in Hegel products.

DualPower Technology

Hegel integrated amplifiers, power amplifiers, and sources are using completely separate DualPower power supplies for the input and voltage gain stages, and for the current output stages of the audio amplifier. The custom-designed Hegel power transformers have got separate DualPower windings feeding independent high-speed rectifiers and high-capacity power supply capacitors.

By using the DualPower power supply technology Hegel amplifiers will prevent disturbances from the high currents flowing in the loudspeakers entering the sensitive input gain stages and voltage gain stages. The Hegel DualPower technology gives lower total distortion and a higher dynamic range than normal audio amplifiers. The Hegel DualPower technology is developed in-house by Hegel and is only found in Hegel products.

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