Arcam A25 + Bowers & Wilkins 603 S3 + Cables

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Choosing your System 

As you progress through the amplifier range, you’ll notice an increase in power output, resulting in enhanced control over your speakers. This allows for louder volumes with reduced harshness, leading to a smoother and more enjoyable listening experience. Greater power translates to tighter bass and improved clarity, with better separation and stereo imaging.

For optimal performance based on room size, we recommend the following speakers:

• Small Rooms: Bowers & Wilkins 607 S3 Bookshelf Speakers
• Medium-Sized Rooms: Bowers & Wilkins 606 S3 Bookshelf Speakers
• Larger Rooms: Bowers & Wilkins 603 S3 Floorstanding Speakers

The Full RADIAs

The Arcam A25 integrated amplifier, part of the new Arcam Radia range, delivers 100 Watts of Class G amplification, ensuring low distortion and superior control. It supports AptX Bluetooth for 24-bit Hi-Res wireless streaming and offers multiple inputs for seamless connectivity. With a 5th generation Class G amplifier design, the A25 provides cleaner, more precise sound while maintaining Arcam's smooth, richly detailed sonic profile, enhancing clarity, power, scale, and precision.

The Arcam A25's 100W of class G amplification, effortlessly drives with the Bowers & Wilkins 603 S3 speakers. Paired with the 603 S3 floorstanding speakers, they provide outstanding high-end clarity and detail and with their dual bass units, these speakers deliver provide more bass and weight for those. As a 3-way speaker, the dedicated woofers focus exclusively on bass, ensuring that mid-range details like vocals remain clear and uncoloured. 

With the Arcam A25, you can enjoy your music at higher volumes without harshness or noise, ensuring a superb listening experience.

In larger rooms, this combination effortlessly fills the space with your favourite tunes. The detail, separation, and stereo imaging become more pronounced, resulting in an open and full sound. You will find the extra detail is evident immediately, with a wider and more precise soundstage. It will be as if you are sitting in front of the performers. 

The A25's unique features, including a USB-C input for Hi-Res music streaming and an upgraded ESS DAC supporting DSD, along with Bluetooth with Qualcomm AptX Adaptive technology, ensure maximum versatility and an open upgrade path, adapting to your evolving audio needs.

Layered, beautiful details

The new 606 S3 introduces our all-new Titanium Dome tweeter, which combines exceptional resolution and insight with smooth, refined high-frequency reproduction. The result? An accurate and immersive insight into your favourite music.

Precision and transparency

Thanks to its composite construction, the Continuum cone avoids the abrupt transitions in behaviour that can impair the performance of a conventional drive unit. With 606 S3, experience a more open, neutral performance that delivers voices and instruments with precision and transparency.

Speaker Features

• Compact form with powerful and scaled sound.
• New Titanium Dome tweeter for exceptional resolution and smooth high-frequency reproduction.
• Acoustically transparent tweeter grille mesh for enhanced realism and detail.
• Continuum bass/midrange cone for accuracy and transparency.
• Upgraded speaker terminals for improved signal path.

5th Generation and Feature-Rich Amplifier

The ARCAM A25 is the best-sounding and most feature-rich amplifier in the new Arcam Radia range. It uses a 5th generation Class G amplifier design to deliver excellent sound quality with powerful dynamics. 

Features

• ARCAM Class G amplification - for ultra-low distortion
• 100W per channel (8 ohms) - powers loudspeakers effortlessly. 
• Bluetooth with aptX™ Adaptive Technology - for the best sound with the most convenience
• Specially selected components and materials - to deliver on sound quality
• Wired or Wireless Headphones - connect your headphones for quiet listening with, or without wires
• All new Radia design - Purposeful yet playful
• MM phono stage - ready for Turntables
• Hi-Res Digital Audio Inputs - with the addition of USB-C for ultra Hi-Res audio
• Plastic Free Packaging - for easy disposal of natural materials

Sleek new style

As part of Arcam’s Radia series, the A25 looks slicker than any previous Arcam amp. With just two dials and subtle illumination, the amp strikes the perfect balance in catching the eye without distracting from the sound. The all-aluminium casing includes the volume and input dials, giving a high quality look and feel. A compact remote control is also included.

Talented in every area

The Arcam A25 features the company’s unique Class G amplifier for incredibly powerful and efficient sound. It’s also Arcam’s best-connected amplifier, with a wide range of inputs including a USB-C interface that’s exclusive to the A25 model. An all-aluminium casing, with backlit aluminium dials gives this amp the luxury aesthetic to match its premium sound quality.

Perfectly balanced sound

With new components and materials, the sound quality is cleaner and more precise, while still retaining the smooth and richly detailed sonic signature that has made Arcam so popular over the past decades.

A treat for your turntable

Much more than just a box-ticking exercise, the Arcam A25’s built-in phono stage makes a top quality connection for your turntable. Suited to turntables with MM (Moving Magnet) cartridges, the high spec phono stage draws a deep seam of information from your vinyl, letting you hear subtle details from the music that might previously have been missed.

Hi-Res Audio with USB-C and Bluetooth Connectivity

Unique to the A25, this Arcam amplifier features a USB-C input, allowing you to connect a laptop, PC, or Mac for Hi-Res music streaming with superior quality. Its upgraded ESS DAC supports DSD for diverse Hi-Res music formats. Additionally, the A25 includes Bluetooth with Qualcomm AptX Adaptive technology, enabling up to 24-bit Hi-Res wireless music streaming from compatible devices for better-than-CD quality.

Versatile Connectivity with the A25 Amplifier

The A25 amplifier supports both Bluetooth and wired headphones, offering flexible connectivity options. Its two-way Bluetooth connectivity allows pairing with Bluetooth headphones for wireless freedom, while a front-mounted headphone socket accommodates any wired headphones.

The A25 optimizes digital audio sources with a high-quality built-in DAC. It features a variety of inputs, including USB-C, two coaxial, and one optical input, making it easy to connect your computer, TV, games console, and digital music sources. Additionally, it supports analog sources with three RCA phono inputs, ensuring compatibility with devices like FM tuners.

Integrated Amplifier Specifications

 

Supplied with a 3 metre pair of terminated Chord C-ScreenX Speaker Cable.

This system is ready to play your favorite tunes in minutes…