POWER AMPLIFIER ANTIPHON MONOLITH

 


Our unrelenting pursuit toward the most realistic two-channel music reproduction has resulted in a single direct heated triode 300B amplifier that can drive any speaker load at the real world loudness. With our amplifier technology and black arts, we are confident that our amplifiers will provide the fullest satisfaction to the most discriminating and discerning music lovers worldwide.

Antiphon Monolith is the best example to showcase to the world our transformer technology for direct heated triode vacuum tubes.

We stubbornly believe that music reproduction through a single direct heated triode tube is far superior to any other medium. In other words, a single DHT output tube has peerless advantage in achieving the most natural rendering of music reproduction because least distortion and best preserved second harmonics can be ascertained through the simplest amplification passage of a single direct heated triode output vacuum tube.

The result is, as known for several decades to the hi-fi audio world, that a 300B DHT tube sounds warm, natural, sweet, silky, liquid, airy, holographic, and most of all closest to the original sound.


However, 300B-based amplifiers have been notorious for their limited ability in driving the modern high-tech ultra-accurate speakers with demanding load. Other companies have tried to compensate the deficiency in speaker driving capacity through designing push-full arrangement of multiple 300B tubes. However, such arrangement creates fundamental disadvantage, eclipsing the 300B's peerless benefit of simplest amplification passage and loosing speed, ample second harmonics, and naturalness.

 

Our amplifier technology is to present an exception to such general belief. We successfully enabled a single 300B output tube to drive any high-tech and any size speaker at the sound pressure level of real world loudness.

The Antiphon Monolith generates 7 perfectly clean watts. Most audiophiles and experts would regard that this 7 watt power is too miniscule to be enough. However, with our technology, this 7 -watt power is guaranteed for music reproduction with any speaker at any load. In reality, we believe that no audiophile would exhaust the entire 7 watts in a home music reproduction environment , unless the used loudspeaker is extremely gigantic and consumes excessive electricity current.

In the course of development, Antiphon Monolith was compared with many renowned mega-watt amplifiers, regardless of transistor or tube basis. Antiphon Monolith not only excelled counterpart amplifiers in driving bass notes, but it also best maintained the tonality, resolution, and speed at the loudest volume decibel. Our world-best transformer technology and inexhaustible ultimate power supply design are the behind secret of this miraculous performance.

 

If one loves the 300B¡¯s characteristic reproduction of midrange and treble notes, we think he/she would have no choice but going for Antiphon Monolith. With Antiphon Monolith, he/she now does not need to concede the speaker driving capacity for the flamboyant irresistible magic of a 300B direct heated triode tube.

 


SPECIFICATION

Output power
7 watts RMS
Inputs One XLR input
Output attenuation True 600 ohms through an input transformer
Input sensitivity
1.2 volts
Output impedance 4¥Ø, 8 ¥Ø & 16 ¥Ø
Tubes

One 300B, One 12AX7, One 12AT7, One 274B (replaceable with a 5R4, a 5U4G)
Due to the high voltage load at the heater filament, a very high quality rectifier tube is required.

Input voltage

120 V or 220 V / 60 Hz (selectable)
Weight
49 Kg NET (110 lbs NET)
Price
US$20,000 each

To make a two-channel stereo sound, two Antiphon Monoliths are required.
Input signal needs to be properly amplified because of the low input sensitivity. Therefore, using a passive line controller is not recommended in principle.
Where exceptionally giant-size speakers in a large room are required, using two pairs of Monoliths for bi-amping is recommended.


 


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