Phaethon integrated amplifier uses many of the technical solutions developed in our Aelius monoblock amplifier and PST100mk2 preamplifier in a compact and elegant design.

Phaethon is a hybrid line level amplifier utilizing only three active gain stages two of them with low noise valves operating in single-ended class A fashion, for the input and driver stage. It uses a transformer attenuator built in-house, embedded in the preamplifier section in a novel post attenuation technique.

The tube driver stage is coupled to the output stage with a wide bandwidth inter-stage transformer that provides perfect phase splitting for our balanced-single-ended output stage.

There are separate power supplies for the tube and output stage utilizing five power supply inductors for low noise filtering.

All these were designed into one to operate in unison offering unmatched sound quality, making the platform of the integrated amplifier, a clear advantage.

All functions are remote controlled and visible through a high quality display with large characters so it can be read from across the room.

Features

• transparent sounding transformer attenuator
• only three gain stages one of them the active preamp stage with tubes
• unique “bridged-single-ended” output stage biased in class A for the ‘first most important watts’
• full function remote control