The S/5000e represents a return to one of Threshold’s most well-regarded traditional values: prodigious power at an affordable price.

The S/5000e is the heir to Threshold’s legacy of high-current designs that effortlessly command and control demanding loudspeaker loads, delivering the power needed for full revelation of dynamic contrasts and bass extension.

But power is only part of the S/5000e story. The amplifier employs minimal feedback, attesting to its inherent stability and excellent open-loop performance, and is direct coupled input to output, with no capacitors in the signal path. Like all Threshold amplifiers, it utilizes close-tolerance metal film resistors, and matched JFETs. The result is superb open and airy resolution of low-level detail — the subtle shadings that differentiate musical performances.

The ability of the S/5000e to reproduce transient attack, and to explicate complex musical passages, confirms its heritage — flowing not only from the famous Threshold designs of the past, but from today’s remarkable flagship power amplifier, the STASIS 8.0.

The highly affordable S/5000e brings Threshold’s acclaimed designs within easy reach — it’s state-of-the-art that takes into account the state of your budget.

S/5000e Features

  1. •High-current output stage easily drives low-impedance reactive loudspeaker loads

  2. •Low-noise solid state design

  3. •All-discrete components

  4. •Accurate, detailed reproduction

  5. •No transistor glare

  6. •Direct coupled input to output for tight extended bass

  7. •High-speed design resolves complex musical passages

  8. •Balanced inputs provide high common-mode rejection for lower noise

  9. •Premium components such as military-spec precision resistors, computer-grade capacitors, military-grade glass-epoxy circuit boards, massive custom toroidal power transformer

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  11. •Isolated power reserves for voltage and current gain stages

  12. •Separate power supply sections for left and right channels

  13. •Gold-plated RCA jacks

  14. •Swiss-made XLR connectors

  15. •Cardas gold-plated binding posts

  16. •Traditional Threshold rugged chassis construction

  17. •Intelligent 12V DC Trigger for remote startup

  18. •High reliability

  19. •Soft-start turn-on

  20. •Modular construction

  21. •Rack-mountable design

  22. •Attractive polished silver anodized aluminum front panel complements the Threshold STASIS-R Stereo Control Preamplifiers

  23. •Hand assembled in the USA

S/5000e Specifications

  1. •Nominal Power Output (20Hz–20kHz)

  2. •250 Watts per channel at 8 Ohms

  3. •400 Watts per channel at 4 Ohms

  4. •Frequency Response: DC- 50kHz

  5. •Distortion: 0.05% at 1kHz, at rated output power

  6. •Voltage Gain: 28 dB

  7. •Input Impedance: 22k ohm (RCA), 600 ohm (XLR)

  8. •Input Sensitivity: 1.80V RMS for full power output

Dimensions and Weight

  1. •19'' W x 7'' H x 10.75'' D

  2. •48.25 cm W x 17.8 cm H x 27.3 cm D

  3. •Shipping Weight: 44 lbs., 17 kg

  4. •Net Weight: 38 lbs., 20 kg


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