High End High Fidelity handcrafted in France since 1987
Micromega history
Since 1987 Micromega designs, manufactures and distributes digital sources and their analogue complements representing perfect balance between advanced technology and sound reproduction.
Combining revolutionary aesthetics, musical quality of the utmost level to an excellent reliability and a great ease of use, the Micromega products are most faithful spokesman of the musical reproduction. For all these reasons, Micromega belongs to the creators who knew how to change the world of the high fidelity by decisive innovations.
Key Dates
1987: Micromega creates CDF1-Hitech, causing a real breakthrough as well by its musical quality as by an avant-gardist design which, with its top loader reminds people of analogue vinyl disc players and opens new prospects in the digital sound domain. This design received the plebiscite of the press and the public and since fact school.
1988: Micromega creates the CDF1-DIGITAL, first CD player in the world in two distinct parts: The turntable and the D/A converter. They are build in two separate cases, already offering a concept of evolution by a total opening of the products towards technologies of the future and that one decade before everyone.
1989: Micromega creates the Trio system, representing the result of its research as well on signal digital processing as regards to digital-analogue conversion.
Trio had a success without precedent in the history of Micromega and puts the company in the very small group of the top-of-the-range universally famous hi-fi manufacturers.
1990-1991: Micromega again shakes the small world of the high fidelity and more specifically of digital-analogue conversion by offering to all its products Bitstream technology inherited of prestigious Trio and its outstanding results.
For the first Micromega time presents an entry level D/A converter Duetto, ideal complement of all conventional CD players in quest of musicality.
1992: The year of the new technological challenge. Micromega, reveals from research and development department, Solo-R one and only French CD recorder showing its technological advance thus.
1993: Micromega makes build the factory of Conflans Sainte Honorine.
The factory extends on more 1800m² buildings of which an research and development department equipped with equipment to the point of technology and an auditorium with test and listening facilities.
Micromega gives itself the means with this exceptional production equipment of continuing its rise.
Micromega thus offers a pleasant framework all to its teams in the middle of the Hi Technology Pole of the town of Conflans Sainte Honorine . Micromega is surrounded by prestigious French industry companies such as: Thales, Sextant, Blommé Automation, Mediadisc, Thomcast, Laser Technique etc…
It is also the year of Microline, answering an increasing desire of the music lovers of going towards the miniaturization without sacrificing the transparency without which the musical reproduction would lose all its raison d'être.
1994: Micromega created the Concept range, a true revolution in the whole world. For the first time in the world Micromega offers the permanent evolution of its products. Conceived on an open architecture the Concept range makes it possible to each customer to make evolve his CD player, Amplifier, Tuner, Drive, Dac, with the liking of its desires and progressively with time without never losing the initial value of its product.
Indeed Micromega markets the Concept series with a system of upgrade developed on the difference in price between the held product and that which one wants to acquire. Forget second hand unit, devaluated products and the waste of money.
This concept receives an incredible number of prices and rewards which honour work with all the Micromega team. The Concept range opens into large the doors of the export markets and these products are sold in more than 27 countries throughout the world.
1996: Micromega creates the second series of CD players in the Concept range. Stage 4 - 5 - 6 come to replace Stage 1 - 2 – 3, offering an outstanding sonic evolution in this range of palyers. To the end of the year famous Drive 3 and DAC 2 will follow.
1997: Micromega Creates Minium. Only one ambition guides this range of product with a leitmotiv "When the exceptional one becomes accessible". More than one slogan this true philosophy led all the phases of the development of this "small Micromega system".
Minium makes it possible to conquer new consumers who can, thanks to Minium, discover the high fidelity without jeopardizing their capacity financial.
1998: Micromega launches Premium DVD the first High End DVD player of the market.
In March 1998, when Micromega makes the first demonstration with the show of Paris Porte Maillot, the actors of the market are still very dubitative on the future of this new media. The negative judgement against the DVD by the defenders of Laserdisc and the VCR are many: poor quality picture, lack of piqué, little contrast and no films before 2015… Micromega maintains its position as at the beginning of now unquestionable CD and believes that the success and the potential of these new media will start booming with "Home Theatre". Its engineers offer with this product the only alternative to the Audio-Vidéophile stripped down Japanese products. Premium DVD revolutionizes the market and success arrives as of the first days.
1999-2000: Micromega Creates Premium DVD2 - Premium 18 - Premium 20.
These three new sources come to broaden the Premium range. Premium DVD2 is an evolution of Premium DVD and offers a greater number of videos outputs dedicated to the Home Theatre. ¨Premium DVD2 addresses most issue of the video projection.
Premium 18 & 20 are as for them, the first Micromega readers using a SONY drive mechanism.
2000: Micromega makes a new step forward in direction of Home Theatre by bringing a significant complement to the Minium range with two essential products: the DVD player and amplifying processor AVP.
Micromega once more makes it possible for all of its customers to evolve to new horizons and to benefit from the contribution of new technologies.
2001-2002: Micromega creates the Reference line, true technological challenge, which goes, like tradition for Micromega, to offer a new generation of products where technology is taken at its highest degree.
The Reference line, representing the highest level of Micromega know how begins with Reference DVD.
Micromega innovates and offers a system with extreme image processing: Frame and Line memory, Pal and NTSC Progressive Digital video, colours image control and adaptative motion detection to smooth the picture and to bring unprecedented cinematographic reproduction. Reference DVD is fitted with not less than 8 Video outputs, 4 digital audio outputs, one of which is Aes/Ebu, and Stereo outputs.
A little while later, the Reference SACD comes to enlarge this range.
Micromega believes in this new standard, and regards it as a worthy successor to replace CD which is already 20 years old.
2003-2004: Thanks to a new technology of discrete amplification developed by the engineers of its design department, Micromega reveals, at the end of 2003, a new integrated amplifier A120. Developing 2x120W under 4 Ohms and having a multichannel input. This unit has all the assets enabling him to feed the most difficult systems without losing neither its neutrality nor its transparency. It is followed soon by another integrated amplifier A80, which although a little less powerful, does not remain about it less one exceptional unit.
This new technology, of which one of the principal characteristics is to have an excellent output thus a low thermal dissipation, is found in two amplifiers of power S120 and T120. S120 is an amplifier of power 2x120W under 4 Ohms whereas T120 has 3 channels being able to deliver each one 120W.
During the summer 2004, Micromega reveals its new DVD player. This new unit is equipped with the last improvements as well in audio as in video. The audio section is provided with a Dolby DIGITAL and DTS multichannel decoder. For the video part, DVD is equipped with 5 types of different outputs: CVBS, S-VIDEO, YUV, SCART and VGA. The YUV and VGA outputs can be configured in progressive mode as well out of PAL or NTSC. The quality of the sound and picture are faithful to the criteria which always prevailed on the Micromega products. DVD is also one of the only apparatuses of the market to offer a master volume control, making it possible to use it directly with multichannel power amplifiers without it being necessary to resort to an audio-video processor. This characteristic will be of a great interest for the audio-videophiles seeking a very powerful system and of an extreme ease of use.
Micromega concentrates its know-how on this DVD player without compromise.
This technological window gathers all that it is possible to find on a DVD player…, with functions and connectors only found on professional models (RVBHV on BNC, AES/EBU…).
It has a 8 Mo picture memory associated with advanced video treatments (progressive scan, digital natural motion). It is the reason of the extreme fluidity and precision of the picture rendering which will provide all its accuracy on the largest screens.
Compatible with the majority of video formats, it is also able to restore music with a staging ever equalized on this kind of equipement.
The manufacterig knowledge of Micromega (cf CD) fully appears in this exceptional player.
And, like always, manufactured completely in machined aluminium, the unit is quite simply superb.
KEY POINTS
- Progressive Scan PAL and NTSC
- Digital Natural Motion
- DVD, DVD+RW, SVCD, VCD compatibility
- Twin laser head
- Bit Rate Indicator
- Parental Control
- OSD Interface
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
Multistandard DVD/VCD/CD player
Twin AlGaAs laser head
Digital aperture :
-DVD.............................................0.60
-VCD/CD........................................0.45
Wavelength:
-DVD..........................................650nm
-VCD/CD.....................................780nm
-Machined aluminium construction
Supported discs
8 and 12 cm, single and double layer
Video characteristics
Composite CVBS............ 1Vpp/75 ohms
S-Video
Y:....................................1Vpp 75 ohms
C...................................0,3Vpp 75 ohms
RGB...............................0,7Vpp 75 ohms
YUV.............................. 0,7Vpp 75 ohms
-Switchable black level offset
-Video shift right / left
TV Standards:
-PAL 625 lines
-NTSC 525 lines
-Progressive Scan PAL and NTSC
-Digital Natural Motion
-10 bits video converters
Audio characteristics
-MPEG, DTS, AC3 digital decoding
-PCM 16, 20, 24 bits 48 and 96kHz audio
-Dolby Surround analog stereo output
Connectors
-2 SCART connectors
-S-Vidéo
-C (RCA)
-YUV
-BNC and VGA (DB15) RGB HV
-RS232 (domotic link)
-Unbalanced (RCA) and balanced (XLR) analog audio outputs
-coaxial and optical SPDIF digital audio
-AES/EBU digital audio
MICROMEGA S.A
4, rue Vermont - ZA des Boutries
78700 Conflans Sainte Honorine
FRANCE
Switchboard: +331 3490 2500
Fax: +331 3919 8323
![[White background]](http://www.qualityhifi.nl/images/2009/Banners/smallstereo_whitex.jpg)