ARIES CERAT GENUS 845 TUBE INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
Aries Cerat Genus 845 Tube integrated amplifier is the answer to the challenge of making the smallest possible one-box integrated amplifier which would carry our design philosophy. In development for some years we are proud to announce the release of the ‘Offspring’ or ‘Genus’ to our family of single ended amplifiers.
With a footprint of 520mm x 530mm it is our most compact design to date, yet remains faithful to our no compromise approach. The Genus can fit where it’s bigger brothers are unable to.
The Genus integrated is 25W in Class A1 yet only has two gain stages. It takes key design ideas from our Concero 25 monoblock circuit. It is effectively a small stereo SET amplifier driving a bigger stereo SET in one chassis.
The two 845 directly heated triode (DHT) tubes use triple passively filtered filament PSUs. All DHT tubes and especially the thoriated tungsten filament tubes, are extremely sensitive to noise present in their filament circuits. Our passively filtered system is fault proof and provides an extremely low noise floor with very high bandwidth and, as part our design philosophy, is without feedback.
Bias of all four tubes, both the two driver and two output tubes can be adjusted on the fly using the built-in bias meter, so you can tailor the sound to your taste, but also monitor tube's current long term.
A self resetting soft start is used to slowly build up the high voltages present and protect the tubes from any current surges at start up.
More info at aries-cerat.eu
SPECIFICATIONS
Bandwidth: 11Hz~60kHz
Noise Floor: -100db unweighted
Output watts: 25W in Class A1,
Harmonic distortion: -64db H2 and -73db H3 @1W
Speaker impedance: User selectable from 1-16 ohms
Weight: 67Kg unpacked
No local or global feedback
Tube compliment: 2 x 845 , 2 x E280F
The Genus standard version comes with 845 Elrog tubes.