Editors’ Choice Award: VAC Signature IIa
“Kevin Hayes has outdone himself with the new Signature IIa preamp. Transformer-coupled, completely balanced, hand-wired with no coupling capacitors or negative feedback, the full-function model has four line inputs and a tubed photostage with mm / mc inputs, a completely separate power transformer, dedicated filter circuitry, and variable impedance loading. And the sound is gorgeous.” The Absolute Sound, March 2013, page 72
THE STATEMENT 450 iQ MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
The Statement iQ power amplifier is the first in a series of VAC components featuring the new VAC iQ Intelligent Continuous Automatic Bias System (patent pending). The VAC iQ System builds on the unprecedented performance of the original Statement Series and takes it to a whole new level with a set of critical enhancements.
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THE STATEMENT PHONO PREAMPLIFIER
The VAC Statement Phono Amplifier is designed for extreme applications. You can tell this the moment you examine the back panel and notice that there are two DC umbilical cords and large Amphenol aerospace connectors, a reminder of the massive dual mono power supply. Unusually, you see that there are inputs for four independent phone sources. Not only that, but each input may be of the conventional single-ended type or may be fully balanced.
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THE STATEMENT LINE PREAMPLIFIER
The heart of the Statement Line Amplifier is a high current, low impedance, balanced Class A1 triode vacuum tube amplifier. Its inputs and outputs couple to the outside world through high precision wideband transformers. While inherently balanced in design, the transformers themselves accomplish conversion to single-ended operation in a sonically transparent way when required.
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