Have you ever wondered
why all of those sought-after '50s and '60s Rock, Pop, Jazz and classical
recordings sound so good? Beyond the often incredible talent of the performers,
engineers and producers, there was the equipment used to make them.
More
often than not that equipment contained vacuum tubes and audio transformers
designed by engineers who had made a career of designing the best
recording gear by using these components appropriately. When properly
applied, vacuum tubes and audio transformers work exquisitely togeter
to preserve all of the music the cartridge captures from the phonograph
grooves.
The Art Audio Vinyl Reference uses 6N1P vacuum tubes and Lundahl
audio transformers to achieve the goal of giving you all of the music.
- Vacuum
tube / FET hybrid input stage for lowest noise
- Vacuum tube / MOSFET
transformer-coupled output stage
- Moving coil transformer-coupled
input
- Passive RIAA equalization
- Massive shielded internal choke-regulated
power supply
- Choke-regulated power supplies for each stage
- Current regulation
for each individual vacuum tube filament
- Switchable MM/MC loading
impedance
- Signal polarity switching
- Zero "global" negative feedback
Reviews:
Enjoy
the Music (March/April 2005) |
