M1 System (Maria 800 with M1 Reference Speakers Audio System)

The flagship Daniel Hertz M1 is the best speaker money can buy and the best speaker that Mark Levinson has ever created.

The Daniel Hertz M1 is the only speaker that creates an emotional experience, in any size room, that challenges live music. Using state of the art pro audio technology with proprietary refinements, the M1 has efficiency of 100dB/1W/1M/8 ohms and offers acoustic output up to 126dB SPL.In practice, most listening consumes less than 1W of power.

The compression driver Tweeter and Daniel Hertz exclusive molded horn reproduce the fine details of the most delicate instruments and also the full force of high SPL rock and pop tracks with sound pressure at the maximum sustainable levels.. The Daniel Hertz exclusive monster 12” Midrange reproduces the body of the sound with extreme transparency and dynamics. The exclusive Daniel Hertz 18” Subwoofer has the speed, low distortion and power handling to shake rooms as well as recreate the subtle low level ambiance of a concert hall. Daniel Hertz speaker connectors eliminate solder joints and terminations, insuring perfect signal transmission between the Maria 800 and the M1.

Mark Levinson personally designed Maria 800 to enable no compromise bi-amplified systems. The Maria 800 can also be operated in bridge mode to deliver 800 watts per channel, 2 channels.

The Maria 800 has fully programmable active crossovers with laboratory grade algorithms that enable the precision tuning in .1dB increments required for bi-amplifying the M4 speakers without compromise.

The Mighty Cat™ Class D chipset is at the heart of the Maria 800. It is a DAC with analog power output that has a native resolution of 384kHz. Mighty Cat™ has the most elegant and shortest signal path possible, eliminating signal degradation by multiple chassis systems with many meters of cable, power supplies and loading issues.

Mighty Cat™ has no audible noise. High output current and low output impedance enable Mighty Cat™ to drive all high quality speakers with ease. Power supply regulation, a rare and costly feature of only a few pure analog amplifiers, is provided by a state-of-the-art SMPS (switching mode power supply), enabling rock solid bass, astonishing punch and dynamics, and pin point imaging. 3 analog inputs have 1 megohm input impedance, an innovation introduced by Mark Levinson, which eliminates loading of analog source devices.