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Primare - PRE30 Balanced Pre-Amplifier
The Primare PRE30 is the first product to be designed by our new design team member Mike Bladelius, (mostly known for his designs for Threshold Corporation). Extending Primare’s traditional design principles, the new PRE30 pre-amplifier combines class-leading audio engineering with sophisticated Scandinavian aesthetics, to provide a high performance product, which is as pleasing on the eye as it is to the ear. The PRE30’s enhanced circuit design reflects Primare’s dedication to the process of delivering state of the art performance to a wider audience. It is a new class A coupled (single ended type), discrete, fully balanced design. The input stage is made with J-FET input devices coupled in a fold back cascade for maximum transient speed. All stages are current loaded and the current source is thermally compensated, (this means that no DC servos are needed). The output stage is made with MOS-FET output devices. A custom-made 100VA Toroidal transformer and double active regulators are used in the PRE30’s substantial power supply, which combines with local regulators to ensure that all stages in the design receive the current needed for best possible performance. To emphasise Primare’s uncompromising approach throughout the PRE30 design, an exacting "shunt to ground" type volume control is employed for best possible sound quality. This solution is mostly found in much more expensive products. Primare has designed the PRE30 to be as versatile and easy to use as it is advanced. Offering full remote control of all functions, including switching for its seven inputs (two sets of balanced and five sets of unbalanced), it also provides such useful features as individually adjustable input sensiti-vity for all inputs and a surround processor throughput, allowing the liste-ner to use the PRE30 in a combined Home Theatre / Music reproduction system. In addition, a remote link allows the listener to control a Primare power amplifier. The PRE30 is the first of a new generation of Primare products, and as such is the latest example of Primare’s founding objective: to advance the art of audio and video reproduction with sleek, sophisticated and versatile designs for the discerning consumer.
Specifications
Analogue inputs: 2 XLR (L&R), 5 RCA (L&R)
Analogue outputs: 1 XLR (L&R), 2 RCA (L&R)
Analogue record output: 1 RCA (L&R)
Balanced (XLR) input: 560 mV
Unbalanced (RCA) inputs: 280 mV
Sensitivity adjustment: +20 dB
Tape output: 280 mV
Gain: 16 dB
Frequency response: DC to 100 kHz + 0.1 dB
THD: <0.01%
Signal-to-noise-ratio: -118 dB
Mains: 100/115/230 V
Dimensions (WxDxH): 430x410x100 mm
Weight: 9,5 kg
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Price: £1199.00
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