Differential Silver 10Y Linestage and EC8020 Phono in Classic Portrait Chassis

Hi!

After introduction of my new chassis style in the Conpactron, Heritage and Intrepid product lines I am often asked what about the classic chassis style? Of course these are still being built on request. As was the case with these recently finished line and phono stages.

An all silver differential 10Y linestage :

Which is accompanied by a match hing all silver differential EC8020 phono:

Both ready to ship to their new owner.

Both finished with graphite grey transformer covers on silver metal plates in smoked eucalyptus frames.

This combo contains a total of 36 silver wound transformers and coils.

All finished and tested and about to ship to their new home.

Best regards

Thomas

The Intrepid Phono Stage

Hi!

With this phono stage the last missing piece of the Intrepid product line got finished.

This is a fully differential, transformer coupled MC phono preamplifier with 8(!) EC8020 tubes.

All signal relevant transformers and inductors are silver wound. In total 20 pieces!

The power supply has it's own housing in the same style chassis, milled form a solid block.

The chassis can be placed side by side, on different shelves or stacked.

All supply voltages are intensely choke filtered, including the DC heater supplies. The high voltage is rectified by a full wave bridge of 4 tubes.

A peek inside the chassis, packed full of silver goodies.

The EC8020 tubes are mounted on vibration damped internal sub plates.

Inputs are available as RCA and XLR. Ihis particular unit only has XLR output but it can be ordered with RCA output (or both) as well.

This phono is finished with a glass pearl blasted surface. other surface treatments like brushed and also other colors are possible.

Like all Intrepid amps and preamps this phono comes with a life time warranty on parts and labour except the tubes which are guaranteed for 5 years.

Alternatively the phono stage can also be ordered with D3a tubes.

This phono is ideally combined with the Intrepid line stage but can work with any other active line preamplifier.

The phono has a built in, silver wound pair of MC step up transformers. Different step up transformers can be chosen to match the phono to a given cartridge. The MC step up configuration can also be easily changed later on after the purchase if it is intended to be used with another cartridge.

This unit will be on demo at the upcoming Munich High End, H2, F06

Best regards

Thomas

The Intrepid Line Preamplifier

Hi!

In January I gave an introduction to the Intrepid product line with a first prototype of a line stage. Now the final version of the Intrepid Line Preamplifier is finished.

A line preamplifier with directly heated triodes and fully balanced and transformer coupled circuit for a truly capacitor less signal path.

As minimalistic as possible in design. Chassis milled from a solid block of metal, including the chassis for the separate power supply.

Like in all Intrepid products only silver wound transformers in the signal path including a silver transformer volume control.

The preamp can be built for different tubes, like 10Y, 801A, 26, UX201A and many others.

As standard it comes with custom developed tubes exclusively made for the Intrepid series.

All tubes carry a 5 year warranty.

The two chassis can be placed side by side or can be stacked.

Each input is transformer coupled via silver wound transformers.

Each input can be configured for different gains or all the same

Like all Intrepid products this line stage is built to order and can be customised.

This line stage will be on demo at the Munich High End, May 9-12, Hall 2, F06

Best regards

Thomas