Mark Levinson 585.5 Integrated Amplifier

Harman International is a global audio company that owns many of the top brands in both home and professional audio. Those brands include JBL, Revel, Arcam, Mark Levinson,  Marantz, Denon, B&W and many others. It was founded by Sidney Harman, an early audio pioneer. He sold the company
In the early 1970s to corporate conglomerate Beatrice Foods. Years later he repurchased his namesake company from Beatrice Foods.
Wikipedia reports that Sidney Harman at the time stated “There are two ways to get rich.
One is to sell your company to Beatrice Foods. The other is to buy it back from them.”

Sidney Harman invested heavily in research and development. He had two passions in particular. One was to manufacture the best speaker available. (He owned the speaker manufacturing and engineering resources to accomplish this goal. JBL. He also invested substantial financial resources in the enterprise.). The end result was the Revel line of speakers and in particular the Revel Salon 2.
His second passion was to reconstitute Mark Levinson electronics. To accomplish this he assembled a twelve person team of engineers at Harman’s Engineering Center in Shelton, Connecticut. The design objective was to built state of the art components. The 500 series components. The one of the first components was the Mark Levinson 526 preamp. The balance of the 500 series components were the 523 preamp. The 585 and 585.5 integrated amps. The 534 amp and the 536 dual mono amps. The 519 CD/preamp and the 515 turntable built in conjunction with VIP turntables.
I have all these 500 series components in stock. 
To manufacture the 500 series of Mark Levinson components Sidney Harman chose nearby Mack Technologies in Westbury Massachusetts. Besides having state-of-the-art-tools and computer driven machines for metalworking, surface mounting of individual components, wave soldering, and assembling printed circuit boards; Mack Technologies can track every circuit board they make, and organize the information into an easily retrievable database for service and quality control. Mack Technologies is a global provider of complex electronic manufacturing services. They specialize in customers that need stringent quality and reliability. Customers, for example in the healthcare industry to manufacture medical devices. Military. Aviation and aerospace industries. NASA.
Mark Levinson was the only audio company  to ever utilize their facilities. Sydney Harman wanted the best. His was not purely a cost driven choice. He wanted the best.
The high build quality of 500 series components is immediately evident in the enclosures of the 500 series. They are made of 6000-series aircraft grade aluminum. Built for a lifetime is not just a phrase.

mark Levinson 585.5
Design goal to build an integrated amp to have the ability to reproduce music with the same level of performance of Mark Levinson separates.
Harman press release: “combining the 585.5 with our new 515 turntable creates a compelling two-piece at the most accessible price point within the 500 series.”
The Pure Phone module found in the 585.5 is engineered to the highest standards. The phono module uses fully discrete extremely low noise circuitry newly designed from the ground up.
“The 585.5 phono stage is the same one found in the award-winning 523 and 526 preamplifiers.
Besides the phono stage the 585.5 also includes an upgrade remote control and a new three-piece extended extruded, machined and anodized aluminum top cover which replaces the 585 and matches the appearance of all other Mark Levinson 500 series products.”

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