Icon Audio Stereo 40i Integrated Valve Amplifier

A great deal of care has been taken in the design, selection of components and production of this amplifier.
Hi-Fi reproduction is a long chain of events that includes the recording, editing, mixing etc, before being transferred to a medium such as LP, CD, or FM, before being played through your own source unit, the amplifier and finally loudspeakers.
Your room acoustics will also affect the sound before it finally reaches your ear. Whilst the amplifier is arguably the most important part of a system, it is important to remember that the weakest link will always affect the final results when making judgements. And not all recordings are ‘equal’! Therefore an amplifier which faithfully reproduces the input signal will also reproduce imperfections in the tonal balance and the recording itself. Therefore setting up and judgements should be made with a ‘clean’ well balanced recording.
The Stereo 40i is a push-pull Ultralinear stereo power amp, capable of running in either pentode or triode mode, using the excellent KT88 valves and fixed bias mode. The driver and phase splitting is all triode. The pre-amp is a high quality ‘Passive’ circuit using silver audio cable and an ALPS ‘blue’ volume control. It is sensitive enough to be used with all modern source equipment having an output of 300 mv or greater. Its simplicity coupled with point to point wiring, hand wiring without the use of printed circuit boards results in an open euphoric sound that is wonderfully detailed and warm sounding.

Features

• KT88 output valves
• 12AT7 (ECC81) double triodes for first stage
• 12AT7 (ECC81) double triodes phase-splitter
• Hand wired point to point components
• NO printed circuit board
• NO tag board
• Ceramic valve bases for low noise/leakage
• HT delay circuit to protect cathodes (optional)
• Japanese EI transformers
• Choke regulated power supply
• Supplied with attractive safety guard
• Minimal feedback used
• 3 section transformer cover to reduce noise
• High quality metal film & wire wound resistors
• High quality polypropylene audio caps
• Japanese ‘Blue’ ALPS volume pot.
• Rubicon/Nichicon power caps.
• Internal wiring using silver gilt cable
• Valves carefully matched for best performance
• Polished stainless steel chassis
• Gold plated Input & speaker terminals
• Inputs for CD, Tape, Tuner, Aux

Power Output:
45 Wrms per channel Ultralinear
20 Wrms per channel Triode mode
Signal To Noise Level: - 90 dB
Frequency Response: 20 - 20 kHz ± 1 dB
Power Bandwidth: 10 Hz - 30 kHz
Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.2% THD at full output
Output Taps: 4 and 8 ohms
Sensitivity: 300 mV for full output
Power Supply: 230/240 Volts, 135 watts
Dimensions: 320 (W) x 250 (D) x 180 (H) mm
Weight: 15.0 kg

Turnaround

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

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