Pearl Audio is an authorized Burmester dealer in Portland. We represent Burmester electronics from the Classic Line through the Top Line to the Reference Line, with the Signature Line and the BC loudspeakers available to order.
Burmester builds complete systems, and it is best heard that way: a preamplifier and power amplifier, or the 232 integrated amplifier, with one of the company's network players at the front. Tell us which pieces interest you and we will bring them into a listening room for your appointment, with loudspeakers suited to the room you have. The Burmester overview shows which components are on demonstration now.
We keep the 948 power conditioner in the showroom as well. Burmester designed it to remove DC from the mains without limiting the current available to the amplifiers, and hearing the system with and without it is part of understanding how the company intends its equipment to be used.
Burmester circuits are fully balanced and DC-coupled, and the company wires its XLR connections with the opposite polarity to the common convention. None of this is a difficulty, but it has to be planned for: we choose sources and cables with it in mind and correct polarity where a component from another maker joins the system, so that what you hear at home is what you heard here.
Many Burmester components are modular. The 808 preamplifier takes plug-in input and output cards, the 232 can be fitted with a phono or a digital module, and the Musiccenters combine a streamer, a converter and a preamplifier in one chassis. We help you specify a component for the sources you have now, and add to it later.
Burmester systems are delivered and set up by our own staff in the Portland area. We place and connect each component, set up network playback and the Burmester app, and go through the system with you before we leave.
Dieter Burmester built his first preamplifier in Berlin in 1977, and every Burmester is still developed and built by hand there. The story is on our Burmester history and technology page.
To hear Burmester in Portland, call (503) 222-2599 or arrange an audition.
