CIRCUIT SALAD Hybrid

Description

CIRCUIT SALAD Hybrid by Whammerdyne

Whammerdyne’s latest ground breaking achievement in the world of DC coupled hybrid amplifiers. We marry years of our cutting edge technical designs into the world’s first DC coupled tube hybrid.  This is not just another hybrid design. True class A Triode tube front end, DC coupled to a quasi-complimentary solid state output topology. What does all this mean? An extremely faithful reproduction of all the music’s soul, dynamics, harmonic richness and an iron fist of solid bass and explosive dynamics. Transient speed that is nearly perfect.  No more slewing of the leading edge attack.  Phase shift is near zero in the audio band.  There is no more smearing of details and our “dark” noise floor will have other manufacturers jealous. The astonishing reproduction of the full music spectrum is realized with the Circuit Salad’s unique topology. Our DC coupled design removes the veil that coupling capacitors exhibit. Power supply regulation for critical front end circuits is by ultra low noise regulators. Main rail power supplies have huge reserves by today’s best electrolytic capacitors that are fully bypassed by tight tolerance polypropylene capacitors giving rock solid performance at any dynamic levels with all the rich harmonics fully realized, sound-stage presence is fully revealed.  We can go on, but in short, our 14 years of design and product development bring you to the top of world class performance at a price that puts it in the hands of the mortal audiophile. This is an absolute true breakthrough product. We easily will challenge any and all at this price point. The Salad is that good. “Once your hear it, you can’t unhear it”

The finest “True” Hybrid amplifier on the market

Features

• (Dual) Toroidal electrostatic and magnetically shielded Left and Right main rail power transformers. (separately fused)
• Dual RCA Gold plated/Teflon source inputs, selectable (Input 1 and Input 2) by Gold plated contact paddle switch
• LED precision Digital meter with integral microprocessor. Gold plated toggle switch allows for Left channel, Right channel selection and center Off. (Center off shuts meter off for no noise.)
• 5 way Gold clad speaker binding posts
• Precision “ALP’s” Blue Velvet stereo volume control selected for tight tracking
• Electronically matched pair 6CY7 vacuum tubes.  Triode sections used in pure Class A operation
• Front end sections run an all precision regulated power supplies with independent transformers for each channel (separately fused)
• Windows comparator circuit for displaying DC offset and making DC offset adjustments via top panel LED digital meter.
• Auto input muting should a tube short or fail and during initial warm up cycle
• Audio output limit in event of overheating or extremely low impedance loads or sustained long duration high output events
• CNC machined heavy aluminum chassis. Bead blast finish. Elegant top trim plate anodized and engraved aluminum with ink inlay
• Massive high efficiency side mounted heat sinks for temperature stability. Vibration damping feet installed on chassis
• Power switch is heavy duty stainless steel latching type with green LED  indicator light
• Front panel incorporates a large multi segment “bubble” LED green decorative light

Measured specifications:

• Power Output: both channels driven 60 Watts RMS
• Distortion: <.05% THD+ Noise (at full power out)
• Frequency Response -3 dB: 8.5 Hz-380 KHz
• Signal to Noise Ratio- Wideband no weighting: 98 dB
•  Damping Factor: 114.
• Amplifier Gain: 27.7 (28.8 dB)
• Input Sensitivity: 1 Vrms
• Input Impedance: 20 K Ohms
• Chassis Dimensions: 17″ L x 12.6″ W x 6.1″ H
• Weight: 25 Lbs. unpacked  32 Lbs. Shipping (shipping weight can vary do to packing types)
• Power consumption @ 120 Line VAC, 60 Hz: 32 Watts, 0.36 Amps (Idle, no signal) Max, both channels driven 4 Ohms – 380 Watts, 3.16 Amps
• Handmade in Oregon, USA
• International voltage option 230 VAC 50 Hz (pricing by request)

Model: Circuit Salad:  Call for price (30-60 day production time)

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