Bel Canto PRe3 Pre Amplifier

The Bel Canto Design e.One Series is a perfect example of what can be accomplished when elegant engineering and depth of empirical knowledge are combined. All components are selected for high sound quality, precision, technical performance, and material quality.
Bel Canto Design audio products are designed to bring you closer to the power and beauty of your music. Our goal is simply to provide the most expressive and powerful musical experience outside of the live event and bring some of the greatest musicians and their performances into the intimacy of your home.
The unique, Single-Knob control interface insures an intuitive and easy to use means for controlling your system, this is a user interface that emphasises you, the user. The compact dedicated remote control is also easy to use and adds soft and hard mute functionality.
The Bel Canto PRe3 represents a powerful statement in high performance audio control preamplifiers. Its superb audio performance and transparency renders it a modern standard in control preamplifier design:

• All analogue, low noise, low distortion architecture for controlling up to six 2-channel inputs including one balanced input
• Fully balanced XLR outputs for optimum interface to the power amplifier
• 4-layer PC board design for superior signal routing, grounding and power supply routing
• Latest generation of low-noise, low-distortion high speed audio buffers, level controls and output drivers provide superb measured and subjective audio quality
• Independent digital and analogue transformers and multi-stage power supplies for precise power to the sensitive analogue circuitry
• Precision audio grade resistors and no capacitors in the audio signal path
• Ultra-low noise second stage regulation for the analogue amplifier sections
• Home Theatre Bypass mode on Input 5
• Digitally controlled analogue volume control for optimum signal architecture and no-compromise gain and balance control
• New Single-Knob user interface provides simple, intuitive control function

Bandwidth: DC-200 kHz
Volume setting for unity gain: 80.0
Signal to Noise Ratio @ 2 Volt RMS:
> 105 dB A weighted, 20 Hz - 20 kHz
Distortion @ 2 Volt RMS/1 kHz: < 0.001%
Dynamic Range: 120 dB
Input overload: 10 Vrms
Output Impedance: 500 Ω Single Ended, 200 Ω Balanced
Input Impedance: 10 kΩ Single Ended, 20 kΩ Balanced
Maximum Gain: 20 dB/10 X
Maximum Output Level: 9.5 Vrms
Idle power draw: 10 Watts
Power Requirements:
100 - 120 VAC, 50 - 60 Hz or 220 - 240 VAC, 50 - 60 Hz
Dimensions: 216 (W) x 318 (D) x 75 (H) mm
Weight: 4.5 kg

Turnaround

Orders will usually dispatched within 2 working days of receiving cleared payment.

Shipping Rates

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Carriers

We despatch the bulk of our UK mainland items on a 24 hour service.  Non-Mainland locations – Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, the Scilly Isles, the Scottish highlands and Islands, the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland may take a day or so longer. Smaller items are delivered using Royal Mail 24 or special delivery. Larger items are delivered using a courier service such as UPS and occasionally by a Pallet service.

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