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  • The Music Room — online and in-store — Erie, Colorado, United States (website)
  • A/V Solutions — in-store — Pleasanton, California, United States (website)
  • Atelier 13 Audio — in-store — Forest Hills, Tennessee, United States (website)
  • Audio Nexus — in-store — Summit, New Jersey, United States (website)
  • Audio Solutions — online and in-store — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (website)
  • Elevation Sight and Sound — in-store — Park City, Utah, United States (website)
  • Excel Audio — in-store — Newport Beach, California, United States (website)
  • Glenn Poors AV — in-store — Champaign, Illinois, United States (website)
  • Guildford Audio Ltd — in-store — Guildford, England, United Kingdom (website)
  • HiFi Handyman — in-store — Anacortes, Washington, United States (website)

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Balanced Audio Technology - BAT REX 300 Power Amplifier

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The REX 300 pairs harmonic completeness with muscular control, delivering tight, textured bass, dimensional imaging, and silky yet detailed highs. Jason Thorpe found its neutral, finely resolved presentation deeply engaging across multiple speakers, while its 200Wpc design supplies the authority and tonal sophistication serious systems demand.

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90/100
Rating for REX 300 Power Amplifier

Deliciously Crispy

Sound Quality

92/100

Build Quality

91/100

Value for Money

85/100

Pros

Harmonically complete, tonally neutral sound with a subtle sweetness that preserves musicality without sacrificing resolution.

Solid, quick, tightly controlled bass combines weight with useful textural definition on demanding bass-heavy music.

Detailed, sweet treble and rich harmonic texture support extended loud listening without ear strain.

Robust, carefully finished construction, including a thick damped top panel, machined heatsinks, and individual channel reset buttons.

Cons

Runs notably hot in operation, so it needs sensible ventilation.

Balanced XLR inputs only; single-ended preamps require RCA-to-XLR adapters.

With large, demanding speakers at extreme volume, the sound can begin to harden.

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What Reviewers Are Saying

"It’s a lovely component and deserves my highest recommendation."

— SoundStage Solo

SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 92/100

Reviewers found the REX 300 notably complete and refined, combining high resolution with a neutral yet subtly sweet tonal character. It delivers controlled, textured bass and convincing dimensionality, though one reviewer heard some hardening when pushed to extreme output levels.

Transparency Resolution

93/100

The amplifier earned repeated praise for resolving texture and harmonic information without turning analytical. Reviewers heard clear vocal layers, crisp fundamentals, rich harmonics, and finely rendered cymbals that could remain vivid or recede naturally within the mix.

Tonal Balance Musicality

94/100

The REX 300 was described as harmonically complete and tonally neutral, without drawing attention to a particular frequency band. Its small touch of treble sweetness and burnished harmonic richness reportedly make extended, loud listening especially enjoyable rather than fatiguing.

Dynamics

88/100

With 200Wpc into 8 ohms and 400Wpc into 4 ohms, the amplifier showed substantial control, delivering solid, quick, tight bass and the ability to drive DALI loudspeakers hard. One reviewer did find that its sound began to harden at the most extreme volumes, tempering its otherwise confident power delivery.

Soundstage Imaging

91/100

Reviewers describe an involving presentation that made it easy to follow individual instruments within a mix. Piano notes were heard standing out in three-dimensional space, while the amplifier preserved enough focus to let cymbals move naturally between foreground and background.

Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.

Build Quality

91/100

The REX 300 is described as heavy, inert, and purposefully made, with a thick, damped top panel, stylishly machined heatsinks and venting, and robust overall construction. Its fully balanced-only input arrangement, substantial power-supply implementation, and individual channel reset buttons reflect serious engineering, although the amplifier runs notably hot in use.

Value for Money

85/100

At $15,000, the REX 300 occupies a premium segment, and the reviews portray performance and execution commensurate with an ambitious high-end amplifier. However, the available reviews do not directly compare its asking price with competing power amplifiers or offer a detailed judgment on value.

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Specifications

Wide bandwidth
3Hz to 200KHz
High slew rate
200V/uS
Power Consumption (Idle/Full Power)
400W / 3000W
Dimensions
19” x 6.5” x 18”
Weight
70 lbs.

Manufacturer's Description — Balanced Audio Technology - BAT

Innovative Power Supply Design

The gain stages of REX 300 feature ultra-high current delivery to achieve spectacular transparency and dynamic realism  The amp also employs the same split power supply topology (Twin Path) as REX 500.  These individual power paths allow the supply to deliver much greater current than traditional designs. The power supply design is further enhanced by BAT’s SuperPak Quattro capacitor bank, which provides four levels of power-supply filtration. In SuperPak Quattro, third-generation premium silver foil/oil capacitors are joined by an X-cap to further flesh out music’s textural beauty and tonal density of music.


Fuseless Protection Circuit where Zeus beats Thor

REX 300 incorporates the same protection circuit used in REX 500 to eliminate any need to replace internal fuses. Many of us have experienced power surges at home and the resultant blown fuses in our gear. If Thor is treating you poorly, just press a rear-panel button on REX 300. Zeus will be summoned to restore normal operation. That’s it! The elimination of internal fuses also permits REX 300 to handle higher currents without impeding the circuit's operation. As always, the best-sounding fuse is no fuse at all.


Only Two Gain Stages (with Zero Global Feedback)

The REX 300 amplifier circuit consists of just two gain blocks. The theoretical ideal for any power amplifier would be to have only one gain block. But the single-stage amp is only possible with low power output. Thus, REX 300 stands at the zenith of simplicity for modern high-power amplifier design. True to BAT’s name, REX 300 is also fully balanced from input to output.


N-Channel MOSFETs

The REX 300 circuit is based entirely on N-Channel MOSFET devices. High-power amplifiers traditionally use complementary N- and P-Channel devices in the output stage. Such configurations are easier to build but suffer from an important drawback: P-Channel devices are inherently inferior to their brethren because they are much slower. In REX 300, both sides of the waveform are handled by identical devices in identical circuit configuration, assuring symmetry of the resulting signal.


Intelligent Power Upgrade


REX 300 can be ordered as either a stereo amplifier or as a monoblock. BAT also provides a transparent upgrade path that allows the owner of a stereo REX 300 to easily convert to a monoblock setup at any point. You don’t need to trade your amplifier in to obtain more power. Simply convert your existing REX 300 to a monoblock and order a second REX 300 monoblock to match. Technically, the stereo to monoblock conversion is accomplished by paralleling the inputs and outputs. This means the performance gets even better since the current delivery gets doubled and becomes more effortless, like the sound of live music.


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  • The Music Room — online and in-store — Erie, Colorado, United States (website)
  • A/V Solutions — in-store — Pleasanton, California, United States (website)
  • Atelier 13 Audio — in-store — Forest Hills, Tennessee, United States (website)
  • Audio Nexus — in-store — Summit, New Jersey, United States (website)
  • Audio Solutions — online and in-store — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (website)
  • Elevation Sight and Sound — in-store — Park City, Utah, United States (website)
  • Excel Audio — in-store — Newport Beach, California, United States (website)
  • Glenn Poors AV — in-store — Champaign, Illinois, United States (website)
  • Guildford Audio Ltd — in-store — Guildford, England, United Kingdom (website)
  • HiFi Handyman — in-store — Anacortes, Washington, United States (website)

and 20 more verified dealers