PRODUCTS : ELECTRONICS : Vinyl Reference
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Think of your favorite records as a time capsule.
It captures that magic moment when a song meets a performer, and proverbial sparks fly. It immortalizes the efforts of musicians, engineers and producers in a single, powerful recording. And it takes you back in time, while allowing you to be fully present in that highly personal space that is the listening experience.
How does Vinyl Reference make this magic possible? The warmth of transformer-coupled vacuum tube circuitry provides natural musical reproduction. The Vinyl Reference is extremely quiet. It brings out every little performance detail. And it provides total ease and flexibility in gain and loading to accommodate a wide range of moving magnet and moving coil cartridges.
Wonders await you in your record collection.
Introduce it to The Art Audio Vinyl Reference and discover what's been there all along.
- 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
- Vacuum tube shunt-regulated power supplies for each stage
- Current regulation for each individual vacuum tube filament
- Switchable MM/MC loading impedance
- Front panel signal polarity switching
- Zero "global" negative feedback
- Balanced and single-ended outputs
- Lundahl Audio transformers
- Exotic Wood control knobs
Type: | Transformer-coupled hybrid MOSFET/triode phono stage |
MM Section: | |
Gain: | 43dB. (other gain structures by special order) |
Cartridge Loading Impedance: | 47K ohms or 47K ohms in parallel with 220pF |
Distortion: | Less than 0.07% THD+ N (total harmonic distortion plus noise) at 1kHz/1vRMS output |
MC Section: | |
Gain: | 63dB. ( other gain structures by special order) |
Cartridge Loading Impedance: | 100 ohms, 300 ohms, 1K ohms or 47K ohms |
Frequency Response: | Less than 0.12% THD+N (total harmonic distortion plus noise) @ 1kHz/2.5vRMS 20Hz – 20kHz < 0.5dB. |
Tube Complement: | 4 Svetlana Electron Devices 6N1P triodes |
Dimensions: | 18.125" x 13.5" x 4" [ W x D x H ] |
Weight: | 30 lbs. |
Warranty: | 2 years parts and labor/90 days on tubes |