Wonderful piece of equipment, great sound, very flexible and stylish. Perfect working condition and esthetics, comes with the remote, wireless dongle, radio antenna, power lead, manual. No box but will be extremely well packaged. Can consider international postage but please, ask for a quote as the postage differs from country to country and the amount in the description is for European Union only, thanks.

Under the lid is a CD mechanism, DAB/+, FM/AM tuner and a 60-watt amplifier. It makes use of Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower Class D modules for the power section. These are increasingly highly regarded and bode well for performance.

Around the back (neatly concealed under the top plate so as not to spoil the lines) are two additional line inputs, an optical input and a USB socket. The latter is able to replay MP3 and WMA fi les via a stick, but is also supplied with a dongle that allows you to place the MC1 on a wireless network and replay files from an appropriately set up computer.

An optional Kleer wireless module is available that attaches to the bottom of an iPod, iPad or iPhone and allows for lossless audio streaming from the Apple device; the Kleer technology has a bandwidth sufficient to allow for lossless audio to be transferred. 

The MC1 is stylish, but there is substance to it, too.

An assured performer and very even from top to bottom, there is no sense of any particular part of the frequency range being unnaturally boosted or held back. This can leave you initially thinking that the presentation is lacking excitement, but longer listening reveals that what you are hearing is, in fact, very honest and matter-of-fact. This positively encourages longer listening sessions due to the extremely unfatiguing nature of the sound.

The MC1 also has excellent detail retrieval and an impressive soundstage. Complex material is easy to follow and there is a real sense of the space the recording was made in. Timing and pace are also impressive and even very high-tempo music retains a sense of composure. Even pushing the unit towards the top end of its power output doesn’t bring on any real harshness or stridency, which is an unusual and considerably impressive achievement.

Replaying lossless files from a laptop has the same very benign sonic qualities as the CD drive and is free of interruption or drop out. The MC1 is also relatively forgiving of compressed material and remains listenable even with comparatively small files. 

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Elipson Music Center MC1 Features:

- Type: CD Amplifier FM & DAB Tuner

- Amp: ICEpower

- Power handling: 2x 60W RMS 8ohms / 2x 120W RMS 4ohms

- Frequency response: (+/- 3 dB) 20 Hz -20kHz

- Function: Wireless music center compatible with iPhone, iPad, iPod.

- Output: Pre-out, headphones, speakers, sub-out

- Input: Aux1, Aux3, MP3, optical, wireless, usb

- Finish: Satin Brushed Aluminum

- Dimensions: 330 x 73 mm (d/h)

- Weight: 3.8

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