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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.
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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.
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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
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7 watts RMS |
| Inputs |
One XLR input |
| Output attenuation |
True 600 ohms through an input
transformer |
Input sensitivity
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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
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120 V or 220 V / 60 Hz (selectable) |
Weight
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49 Kg NET (110 lbs NET) |
Price
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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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