BAT - VK-75SE TUBE POWER AMPLIFIER
BAT/VK-75SE TUBE POWER AMPLIFIER
VK-75SE - BAT's Best All-Tube Design! One of the Best Amps You'll Ever Hear!
For Those of You with Huge, Diffucult to Drive Loudspeakers... Buy Two for 150 watts/channel!
The Balanced Audio Technology VK-75SE establishes a new standard of transparency for tube amplification. This unique Special Edition design incorporates the 6H30 Super Tube. Operating in BAT’s all-triode, fully balanced, zero-feedback topology, this driver tube feeds the power tubes a waveform of unprecedented fidelity. With this pristine signal, the virtues of the single-ended bridge design are multiplied, resulting in a presentation of the musical event that is astonishing in its realism.
The VK-75SE is startlingly quiet. Instrumental timbres are rendered with effortless accuracy. Retrieval of the subtlest ambient information, coupled with the completely natural decay of musical tones, creates a spatial illusion constrained only by decisions in the recording booth. The VK-75SE’s sound is virtually grain-less, sharing the liquid ease of previous tube designs without their thickening of instrumental images. The VK-75SE sounds like no other amplifier, tube or solid-state. More than ever before, it sounds like no amplifier at all. Just pure music!
Supported by its own dedicated power supply, the 6H30 Super Tube’s high current, high transconductance, and low plate resistance allow it to track amplitude changes in the musical signal with vanishingly small error. This accuracy makes possible the VK-75SE’s superior ambience retrieval, but it also works in synergy with the VK-75SE’s 6C33C-B power tubes to create dynamic responsiveness. Each note’s fundamental and its harmonics retain their correct relative loudness, defining timbre and texture. Micro-dynamic shadings are rendered with delicacy. The slam and growl of orchestral thunder remain visceral and undiluted. If, as all audio engineers assert, dynamic honesty remains the most recognizable difference between live music and recordings, the VK-75SE closes the gap substantially.
The VK-75SE features BAT’s sophisticated automatic bias control for each individual output tube. Complementing the amplifier’s convenience and remarkable sound is a redesigned two-piece black and silver faceplate machined from block aluminum, incorporating an elegant “wing” that dissipates heat and provides additional vibration control for the sensitive driver stage.
The monoblock version of the VK-75SE, the VK-150SE supplies a prodigious 150 watts of output power. The stereo VK-75SE can be fully upgraded to VK-150SE monoblock status. In either version, BAT's Special Edition tube amplifiers join BAT’s Special Edition Preamplifiers and CD Player at the edge of the art of music reproduction.
| VK-75SE Specifications: |
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| Number of Channels: | 2 |
| Watts per channel at <3% THD, 8 Ohm or 4 Ohm: | 75 W |
| Frequency Response @ -3dB: | 7Hz - 200kHz |
| Input Connection: | XLR |
| Input Resistance - phase to ground: | 215k Ohm / 100 k Ohm |
| Input Sensitivity: | 1 V |
| Power Supply Energy Storage: | 6000 joules |
| Power Consumption Idle: | 500 VA |
| Full Power: | 1000 VA |
| Tube Complement: | 8 6SN7 |
| | 4 6C33B |
| | 2 6H30 |
| | 2 6V6 |
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| Dimensions (W x H x D): | 17' x 8' x 24' |
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| Weight - unpackaged: | 90 lb. (41 kg) |
