PRODUCTS : ELECTRONICS : POLARIS
The Polaris tube preamplifier, is presenting a new level of musical performance and construction quality among mid-priced vacuum tube preamps. It brings together world leading levels of engineering, highest quality parts and materials, and a never ending love for music.
Features
- 2 Chassis full-featured Class A - triode/pentode vacuum-tube stereo preamplifier
- Unique new pure vacuum tube-circuit design with single gain stage and
incorporates only one coupling capacitor at it's output stage - DHT
- 0 dB negative feedback
- Purist tube design (no any transistor) and shortest possible signal paths
- Very low output impedance to drive any tube or solid state power amp
- High selected, high quality passive components used in all applications
- Central one-point earth grounding
- Fully hand assembled to insure the highest level of craftsmanship
- Central one-point earth grounding
- Fully hand assembled to insure the highest level of craftsmanship
- Elma/Swiss - 4 channel / precision 24 position stepped attenuator volume control
with 192 Welwyn metal-film resistors 1% - Elma/Swiss - Input selector switches
- Gold-plated industrial grade PCB
- Audio circuit boards are anti- resonance-damped mounted
- Special alloy solder used for the best electrical connection
- Selector switch engages relays located near RCA jacks to switch all inputs
- 2 Special tubes for stereo line-amplification ( tube life min. 10000 hrs )
- 4 Special tubes for stereo phono-amplification ( tube life min. 10000 hrs )
- Passive RIAA equalization with 0dB feedback
- Very low noise enables full use of cartridges down to 0.1mV
- Special vibration dampening system for all signal tubes
- High-Current filament regulator for signal tubes and soft tube start automatic
- Lundhal/Sweden - 2 MC phono transformer
- Lundahl/Sweden - 2 Balanced step output transformer
- Mundorf/Germany - MKP capacitors
- Philips - capacitors
- DC-Power filter
- Ayon - Premium internal signal cable uses ultra pure, soft annealed copper and super low loss insulation
- The beautifully crafted special grade aluminium-brushed, anodized and anti-vibration resonance, non-magnetic chassis shields effectively against RFI and EMI.
- 3 Platinum knobs (selectors, volume)
- RCA high quality teflon gold-plated input jacks
- Neutrik/Swiss - XLR chassis connectors
- Remote Control for Volume (optional)
- All front & rear panel descriptions are engraved
- The feet are resonance absorbing types
- Chassis finish: Black
Power Supply
- External tube-regulated & stabilized power supply (RCA 6AX5GT rectifier tube
- A large toroidal power transformer is encased, excellent damped and RFI/EMI ultra-shielded (custom-made for Ayon)
- Lundhal/Sweden - Choke power supply
- AC Phase polarity control indicator
- Warm-up muting period for extending tube life time
- Ayon - Powercord between power supply & preamp
* The Polaris is also available as a two chassis line preamplifier only.
