Tag: Valve Amplifier

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Zontek Art-Deco Phonostage

Janine Elliot takes a listen to the distinctly art-deco looking (and named) phono-preamplifier from Zontek in Poland costing €8990 and having three inputs, allowing for three arms on your turntable.

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BIG Valve Monoblocks From Icon Audio

“Has Icon Audio founder David Shaw designed the ultimate triode amplifier?”, asks the company’s latest press release. Previewed at September’s National Audio Show and created to fulfil a personal ambition, these gargantuan amps will be sold in limited numbers as a special edition. “If I’m completely honest,” says Shaw, “for much of the past year I’ve […]

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The SteamAmp II From Copperstream

The SteamAmp II  from Coppersteam.com is the second iteration in the SteamAmp line and we think it looked great and certainly worthy of a mention in Hifi Pig’s news section. Its circuit follows the original, and is based upon the S5 Electronics K12G Kit. The power supply caps and signal coupling caps have been upgraded, […]

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Tron Atlantic 300B Valve Amplifier

The Atlantic from Tron is one of the smallest 300B amps ever made with a footprint of just 40cm x 25cm. Power is between 9-10watts across the audio spectrum (20-20kHz) and with a usable bandwidth up to to 95kHz (-3dB). The chassis is made from CNC machined Aircraft grade alloy, designed so that no nuts, […]

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McIntosh Announce C2500 Preamplifier

McIntosh Laboratory has launched the new C2500 – a valve preamp with 15 inputs. Designed to offer flexibility with both digital and analogue source components, the new C2500’s input complement includes two dedicated phono inputs (MM and MC) and five digital inputs, with D/A decoding at up to 32-bit/192kHz resolution. The five-strong digital input suite […]

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Coincident Launch Two New Tube Amplifiers

Canadian manufacturer Coincident Speaker Technology have announce their first stereo integrated amplifiers, the Turbo 845SE and the Dynamo 34SE (Pictured). The Turbo 845SE is constructed as true dual mono in every way with the only shared component between the two channels being the chassis. The Turbo is built on the same chassis as the company’s […]

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Purity Audio Design PSE300B Amplifiers

Purity Audio Design of Endicott, New York, will officially debut their Series 2 Silver Statement linestage preamplifer along with their PSE300B Ultra mono bloc amplifiers (pictured) which in turn will be driving Daedalus Audio loudspeakers at Axpona 2013 in Chicago. The pair of monoblocs come with 4 Sophia Electric Princess 300B, 2 Sophia Electric Grade […]

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Coincident Announce Turbo 845SE and Dynamo 34SE Amplifiers

Coincident Speaker Technology based in Ontario, Canada, have contacted Hifi Pig with news that they are adding two new valve amplifier designs to their stable of products, which already includes valve amplifiers, preamplifiers, loudspeakers and audio cables. The Coincident Turbo 845SE amplifier is “built and designed to be an all out assault on integrated stereo […]

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New Canor TP134 Integrated Amplifier

Hi-Fi distributor Sound Fowndations has announced the addition of the CANOR TP134 valve amplifier to its portfolio of high quality audio components. The CANOR TP134 is a high quality stereo integrated amplifier that uses EL34 output valves to generate 35 watts per channel operating in pure class A up to 10 watts per channel. The […]

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Conrad Johnson LP125sa Valve Amplifier

The latest in the series of Conrad-Johnson vacuum-tube power amplifiers, the LP125sa is announced for release in the UK by Audiofreaks distribution. The high-end amplifier is a single stereo block and, at 125 watts per channel has ample power for the majority of high-end loudspeakers. The LP125sa audio circuit consists of three stages. The input […]