LYNGDORF AUDIO MP-50 16 CHANNEL WORLD CLASS SURROUND SOUND PROCESSOR

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MP-50 SURROUND SOUND PROCESSOR
THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE

Designed and developed in Denmark by Lyngdorf Audio, the high-end MP-50 surround sound processor delivers a surround sound experience that outmatches anything in and above its class.

PACKED WITH TECHNOLOGY
When it comes to room correction technology, nothing comes close to the MP-50’s RoomPerfect™, the world’s most sophisticated technology for adapting the sound system to your room.

Other highlights from the MP-50´s exhaustive specifications list include a state-of-the-art HDMI stage with 4K pass-through and HDCP 2.2; support for Dolby® Atmos, DTS:X and Auro-3D®; 16 balanced XLR outputs for power amplifiers; a voicing tool to cater to personal preferences; fully digital signal processing; and an optional DCI-compliant digital AES/EBU input for integration with digital cinema servers.

ROOMPERFECT™ ROOM CORRECTION
With RoomPerfect™, the MP-50 delivers a perfect surround sound experience equally well to living rooms, media rooms, and home theaters. Without the need for extensive acoustic treatment, you get a surround system with optimal frequency response, seamless level alignment, and bass management that perfectly integrates the speakers and subwoofers, plus more freedom when choosing speakers and their placement.

IMMERSIVE SURROUND SOUND
The MP-50 offers full support of Dolby® Atmos, DTS:X and Auro-3D®, as well as legacy surround sound formats. The processor features 16 balanced XLR outputs and can output 12 unique channels. The remaining 4 outputs can be used for additional speakers or woofers.

MEDIA PLAYER
The MP-50 features a built-in media player, which connects to services like Spotify and Airplay as well as internet radio. Through a cabled network or USB connector, you can access your library of music and enjoy it in stereo or as up-mixed to a surround sound format.

STUNNING GOOD LOOKS
The chassis—a salute to modern industrial design—is executed in the signature black design of Lyngdorf Audio. Complemented with matte black aluminium and glass in a profile that complements its capabilities, the MP-50 radiates Danish design at its best.

VOICING TOOL – TO CATER TO YOUR PERSONAL PREFERENCES
The MP-50’s built-in voicing tool will allow you to customize 32 voicings, thus changing the overall tonality of the system to your preferences and dedicating voicings to each input of the processor. You can also create a voicing to compensate for a particular recording.

Each voicing can consist of up to eight filters with adjustable gain and Q, all controlled through the browser interface, which shows the effect of each filter as well as the overall effect to tonality.

DEAD SILENT
Because of the extremely low background noise of the fully digital signal processing in the MP-50, you will experience . . . silence. You can enjoy everything from the faintest details to the loudest bangs with full dynamics and realism. But to enjoy the silent passages of music or cinema, your room also needs to be quiet. This is where the digital approach has another benefit; the MP-50 doesn´t generate much heat and therefore has only passive cooling with no need for noise-inducing fans.

CONNECTIONS
A variety of in- and out-puts provide plenty of options to connect your audio and video sources, including eight HDMI inputs and two HDMI outputs, four optical and three digital coaxial inputs, a USB input that supports audio up to 192kHz/32bit, and an AES/EBU input plus an XLR connector for the RoomPerfect™ calibration microphone. There’s also an HDBaseT™ output, a feature set that can converge uncompressed full UHD digital video and audio through a 100m/300ft LAN cable.

BUILT TO LAST
The MP-50 is, like all Lyngdorf Audio electronics, built to the highest standards. Everything is simply best-in-class—from the meticulous design based on 20 years of knowhow in digital signal processing, to selection of components, mechanical design, manufacturing, and 48 hours of burn-in before the final QA. Each step ensures that you will not only have ultimate performance but also a product with the highest reliability in the industry.

FLEXIBILITY IN INSTALLATION
Multiple control options will allow you to integrate the MP-50 with control systems, IR sensors, and triggers, whereas the IP-control or the infrared remote will offer a direct control of all features.

DCI-COMPLIANT DIGITAL AES/EBU INPUT
For movie aficionados, the MP-50 offers an optional upgrade with a DCI-compliant digital AES/EBU input for integration with digital cinema servers.

CONTROL MP-50 WITH AN APP
The Lyngdorf Remote Application automatically discovers the MP-50 connected to your local network, and you will be able to adjust all the basic functions like input selection and volume level from your handheld device.

The built-in media player can be controlled directly, and you can access music files stored on pen drives connected to the MP-50 as well as search all files stored on your local hard drives. Swiping left and right gives you access to cover art as well as informing you of the signal resolution.

The Lyngdorf Remote Application is available for free download from both IOS and Android.

AUDIOGON BLUE BOOK VALUE IS @ $7476 FOR A USED MP-50

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WIDESCREEN MAGAZINE REVIEW

RoomPerfect turned out to be a revelation. I have not had a product
in this room with Audyssey where I preferred the sound with
Audyssey enabled. Dirac room correction has been in two other
products reviewed previously, and at least it sounded better than not
using it and was definitely an improvement. But RoomPerfect does
something no other automated audio calibration product has done
for me: it made the system sound unified and fully integrated from
the lowest frequencies to the highest. In spite of claims of other room
measurement and correction products, they don’t do for me. At least
not in this room. There was always a feeling that the subwoofer
wasn’t quite “with” the rest of the system and that there were several
other frequency ranges where the sound seemed “different” somehow,
rather than sounding like it was coming from very well-integrated
products. RoomPerfect completely eliminated that feeling on the
very first try at using it. There was something magic about the way
sound would transition from various channels to the subwoofer… it
was so much more… integrated… smooth… seamless… correct…
and even seductive. It sounded like there was one full-range (below
16 Hz to 20,000 Hz or more) loudspeaker in the room that could
reproduce sound anywhere within the space. I recognized the
improvement immediately after RoomPerfect calibration, but it took a
while to understand why RoomPerfect was so impressive. That part
wasn’t obvious since this was the first time I have ever heard performance
like this from any home theatre system at any price. And it
was happening right in this same room that seems to thumb its nose
at Audyssey. I don’t want anyone to think I had anything like “bad
sound” before this RoomPerfect experience. It was always entertaining
and enjoyable, though, there was always something in the back
of my head wondering if this was as good as it was ever going to
get. RoomPerfect proved that the sound was not as good as it was
ever going to get. Without RoomPerfect the sound was good, among
the best sound heard in this room, which includes processors selling
for more than three times the cost of the MP-50. But with
RoomPerfect that feeling of seamless integration across the entire
frequency spectrum was intoxicating. That drove the deep dive into
the music collection, to hear everything I love at least once before
the components have to be returned to Lyngdorf. I wasn’t hearing
things I hadn’t heard before, but it was all better than ever before.