Marantz introduced a new preamplifier in the Reference Series, the SC-11S1 which comes this November on US market for $3199.99.

Based on the PM-11S1 and the SC-7S2 pre-amp section, the SC-11S1 features a fully balanced construction with a new linear control volume using a Wolfson WM8816 IC, a balanced input type headphone amplifier, 3 brand new ultra high speed HDAM-SA3 buffer modules and a reworked power supply design with a choke input system resulting in a THD of 0.002%.

It also offers mono, stereo or multi channel configuration with the Marantz F.C.B.S (Floating Control Bus System) for connecting several SC-11S1 preamplifier.