American Sound's Second Avantgarde System with Phasemation, VPI, Analog Relax

American Sound presented a second demo in the suite's smaller room: Avantgarde Acoustics' Uno XDs, a smaller model soon to be upgraded to G3 status, driven by Japan's Phasemation amplification.

Another noteworthy debut: a Japanese Analog Relax EX1000 phono cartridge (below) with a body made of 2000-year-old Yakusugi Cedar. Here, it served as transducer on a VPI Avenger turntable. Another fine showing.

COMMENTS
windansea's picture

I think I see a 300B and some 12a_7 and maybe a 6x4 and is that an EL34 on the left? Curious.

Julie Mullins's picture

I think I see a 300B and some 12a_7 and maybe a 6x4 and is that an EL34 on the left? Curious.

The Phasemation MA-1500 monoblocks use a 581 4A at the input, a 6CG7 driver tube, and a 300Bin the output stage; there's also a 5R4 rectifier tube, according to the block diagram on the Phasemation site:
https://www.phasemation.com/product/ma-1500.html

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