Balanced circuitry It is our philosophy and we are proud to develop it to the best of our ability and always have.
There are many conflicting opinions on this configuration. Some say it is useless in a domestic environment, others say it degrades and dirties the sound, and others say it only serves to determine a higher cost of the equipment for purely commercial purposes.
In part, this may only be true if this aspect of the project is neglected or poorly designed.
Recent field tests have also demonstrated that if the overall design is executed according to the rules of the art, the final result can be considered the maximum in terms of musicality, transparency and dynamics.
In the CLASSIC 102i nothing has been left to chance, starting from a dual mono power supply and circuitry up to the real heart where each amplification section is double, including the innovative volume control that uses two separate stages for each channel on a digitally controlled MOSFET array. Furthermore, thanks to its native balanced nature, even the single ended line inputs are entirely converted to balanced, including the PHONO RIAA stage. In very simple words you will not hear a more dynamic and transparent preamplifier than this.
The volume control section, a stage not to be underestimated.
The most delicate and fundamental part, which must be treated with extreme care, because it is also this stage that as a whole determines the general performance of the reproduction.
Unlike many manufacturers who use classic motorized potentiometers, we have developed a completely different stage that guarantees the project a set of very important and performance advantages. We have implemented a gain control through an array of shielded Mos-fets in a special IC that are digitally controlled. As a first factor, we have eliminated forever the wear of the carbon layer typical of traditional potentiometers and this forever cancels the onset of the annoying Hum & Noise and Pop & Click that are inevitable with wear over time.
Another advantage that is often overlooked is the linearity of the response that is modified when increasing or decreasing the volume with the use of carbon layer potentiometers or even the more sophisticated resistor array potentiometers.
This occurs when the signal passing through the potentiometer encounters a resistance that also modifies the impedance factor and causes this artefact .