Headphone Amplifier Corvette® NO Transformers ASSEMBLED

$399.95

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This is assembled version of the Corvette® (User Manual) high end pure class A DIY tube headphone amplifier kit designed for the highest quality music reproduction with the minimum distortion. An essential part of any good sounding headphones is the amplifier that is driving them. Corvette® is capable of driving a wide range of headphones and it will give you the best advantage in listening pleasure. The most immediately noticeable quality of Corvette® is its silent background, nearly totally devoid of hiss. With a pair of matched Electro Harmonix 6922 tubes, the sound Corvette® produces is balanced, closer to neutral, with a quick bass. Bass lines are staccato, the mid lines are wonderfully transparent and nicely recorded vocals like Alison Krauss and Vienna Teng hung in midair clearly separated from the bass guitar, which in turn is perfectly separated from the guitar accompaniment. Highs are buttery smooth. There is never a feeling of harshness, fuzz, or artificial detail up top. That is not to say Corvette® is not detailed. Corvette® is detailed, it just presents details in a way that is very non-etched. Another way to describe this is that the detail never stands out and announces itself. Rather, the detail works to make a vocal or instrument seem more present in the room, and more focused.

Do not compare this tube amplifier to the ones made somewhere in Asia from counterfeit parts and using low voltage Wal-Mart switching power supplies. Corvette® uses only the finest audiophile quality components that have been carefully selected with no expense spared. Corvette® uses two 6922 tubes for their linearity and low distortion. (You also can roll in 6N1P or 6H23P tubes). The 6922 tubes are matched with an aid of Amplitrex tube tester and a computer. High quality Kemet, WIMA, Nichicon capacitors are used along with an audio grade ALPS volume potentiometer. Military grade Vishay/Dale metal film resistors used throughout the kit. A high quality built in dual bus power supply Doubloon® with ultra low noise characteristics delivers anode and filament voltages and a very generous amount of post and pre regulation smoothing capacitance provided by Nichicon and Kemet capacitors. The kit is assembled on a Canadian made printed circuit board that has thickness of 1.75 millimeters and 2 Oz copper traces. You have a choice of purchasing a transformless amplifier kit Corvette® or an amplifier kit Corvette that includes transformers (filament 182H9 and B+ 182D110). The transformers are manufactured in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and are designed for both 120V and 240V power arrangements.

Headphone amplifier kit Corvette® is shipped the same business day it is purchased via Canada Post Express with a tracking number.

Headphone amplifier kit Corvette® is also available as assembled, tested and operating headphone amplifier. Contact us if you wish us assemble headphone amplifier Corvette® for you.

User Manual

Specifications of Single End Pure Class A OTL Headphone Amplifier Kit Corvette®

Frequency Response: 10Hz - 250 KHz (-1dB)

Headphone Impedance Range: 30 Ohm - 600 Ohm

Input Impedance: 100 KOhm

Output Impedance: 230  Ohm

Total Harmonic Distortion: < 0.001%@1KHz

Power Consumption (Anode): 12W@250 Volt

Power Consumption (Filament): 5W@6.3 Volt

Signal to noise ratio: 105 dBa

Crosstalk between left and right channels:- 92 dB

Maximum Output Power vs. Impudence:

250 mW@30 Ohm
280 mW@60 Ohm
300 mW@100 Ohm
550 mW@200 Ohm
500 mW@300 Ohm
420 mW@400 Ohm
300 mW@500 Ohm
250 mW@600 Ohm

 

Component Selection of Single End Pure Class A OTL Headphone Amplifier Kit Corvette®

Tubes: Two Matched Electro Harmonix 6922 (you can also roll in 6N1P and 6H23P)

Volume Potentiometer: ALPS RK27 also known as Blue Velvet

Resistors: Vishay/Dale Metal Film

Input Coupling Capacitors: WIMA 1 Microfarad

Interstage Coupling Capacitors: WIMA 1 Microfarad

Output Coupling Capacitors: WIMA 1 Microfarad

Decoupling Capacitors: Nichicon 100 Microfarad

Feedback Grounding Capacitors: Nichicon Muse Audio Grade 100 Microfarad

PSU Pulse Suppression Capacitors (Anode): Four WIMA 0.047 Microfarad MKP-X2

PSU Pulse Suppression Capacitors (Filament): Four WIMA 0.047 Microfarad MKP-X2

PSU Pre-Regulator Capacitors (Anode): Three Nichicon 100 Microfarad and One Kemet 0.22 Microfarad

PSU Post-Regulator Capacitors (Anode): One Nichicon 100 Microfarad and One Kemet 0.22 Microfarad

PSU Pre-Regulator Capacitors (Filament): Three Nichicon 1000 Microfarad and One Kemet 0.22 Microfarad

PSU Post-Regulator Capacitors (Filaments): One Nichicon 1000 Microfarad and One Kemet 0.22 Microfarad

PSU Voltage Regulator (Anode): MOSFET IRF840

PSU Voltage Regulator (Filament): LD1084V





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