Audio Analogue Bellini Anniversary Pre Amplifier – Silver

There’s something about Italians & Style, and here’s proof – Audio Analogues superb looking Bellini Anniversary Pre Amplifier. It comes in excellent condition, in its original factory packaging with remote control, manual, mains cable and as always, our three month warranty. If required, we also have a matching Donizetti Power Amplifier available.
Audio Analogue say….
Audio Analogue was born in the beautiful corner of Tuscany between Pistoia, Lucca, and Pisa in 1995. The synergy between high-end audio experts, electronic engineers specialized in the most different fields of electronic design and commercial managers with many years of experience in different fields could only create the basis of what is Audio Analogue today: a company but above all one of the most popular brands in Italy and in the World able to satisfy the tastes of the most demanding audiophiles.
Products always fully MADE IN ITALY, in the heart, soul and substance, using mainly small and very qualified local industries and artisans to make the most of Italian excellence and grow the quality of our and their work. Devices completely hand-crafted, tested with first-class instrumentation, but also and above all with listening tests, always rediscovering the emotion of having created something that can in turn give emotions through listening to the favourite music.
The Bellini Anniversary preamplifier, the new born of Audio Analogue, designed in the Airtech laboratories, is part of the Anniversary line, re-proposing another of the historical products of Audio Analogue. The only thing in common between this new model and the previous versions of Bellini remains the name, while the project and the technical solutions used are completely new. Starting from the excellent base constituted by the preamp section of the Maestro Anniversary integrated amplifier, the novelties with respect to the latter are however multiple. The first is the power supply stage that has been completely redesigned using an inductive-capacitive filtering to minimize mains disturbs. The filter inductance has been designed and manufactured specifically for this device. The amplification stage, called SeGeSTA (Single Gain Stage Transconductance Amplifier), has been designed to make the preamplifier even quieter while keeping the structure completely balanced and without global feedback. The circuit has 4 layers and the positioning of the components has been carefully thought out to avoid crossings between the input and output signals and above all between the digital control signals and the sensitive analogue signals. The use of “Audiograde” components and internal wiring made with 7N OCC pure copper cables complete the picture.
Inductive power supply to reduce any type of disturb from the mains to the line stage, zero global feedback from input to output, fully differential circuit (differential input and differential output) with discrete components dual-mono configuration, digital volume control without operational amplifiers, relay input switches to minimize non-linearity, oversized military resistors to minimize thermal distortion, “Audiograde” capacitors based on Airtech specification, microcontroller management, Airtech internal wiring and gold plated connectors.
Specifications:
Channels: 2
RCA Inputs: 3
XLR Inputs: 2
Unbalanced Outputs: 2
Balanced Outputs: 2
Input Impedance: 47Kohm
Unbalanced Output Gain: 5dB
Balanced Output Gain: 11 dB
Frequency Response (attenuation 0.5dB): 200KHz
Unbalanced Output Noise (Band 0 Hz – 8kHz): ≈24µV
Unbalanced Output Noise (Band 0 Hz – 8kHz) – A weighted: ≈9µV
Balanced Output Noise (Band 0 Hz – 8kHz): ≈37µV
Balanced Output Noise (Band 0 Hz – 8kHz) – A weighted: ≈14µV
Signal to Noise Ratio (0dB/A weighted/ref. 2Vrms) – unbalanced output: ≈107dB
Signal to Noise Ratio (0dB/A weighted/ref. 2Vrms) – balanced output: ≈103dB
Standby Power Consumption (230VAC): 0.7W
Dimensions: 450 (W) x 380 (D) x 140 (H) mm
Weight: 12 kg

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