 Sonneteer ups the grade on iconic British Campion and Alabaster amps."The best amplifier ever made" just got better. Designers Haider Bahrani and Remo Casadei have been dragged from their desks and back into the listening room.
By: Sonneteer As sentimental as this all sounds it’s important to know that when we started off as young just graduated students, ideological by nature, we had this purist dream and the Campion was a fulfilment of that. In high fidelity terms we were purists and in business terms we were novices. So the first development embodies these facts. This lead to the Sonneteer Campion being critically very successful with reviewers’ hands aching as they scribbled so much prose in praise of it. The Alabaster which was based on the same design, but with a little more power followed soon after and was received with even more fanfare. The words,”the best amplifier ever made” were bandied about often as were the words “amplifier specialists” Not that long ago we announced the Orton upgrade which in itself was a long effort to better an already well respected amplifier. We can now reveal that at the same time and using much of the same learnt ideas the Alabaster and Campion amplifiers were going through a transition of their own. It would be foolish of us to think that we peaked in 1994 and that we can’t do any better. So we can make it official and tell you that a Campion or Alabaster that you buy today shares some of the ‘trickle down’ knowledge from the Orton and that there is indeed a new reference Alabaster now sitting in our listening room. Pop off the lid and the untrained eye will see very little. This really isn't about oil filled capacitors and deionising spray. We do own an Oscilloscope or two and spectrum analysis tools are aplenty here too, but our most important tools are our ears and our brains. The trained eye will spot a few mechanical tweaks and some firming up in the power supply stage electronics. It doesn't sound so glamorous, but the refinements, in our view, have taken the sonic performance to a higher plane. Recently at Sonneteer we have been getting back to what we do best and spending a lot of time listening to all our products and drawing on the years of experience we have gained to simply make everything better. These efforts over the last year have seen updates to the Byron and Bronte CD players, the current flagship, the Orton dual mono amplifier and now the classics in the Campion and Alabaster. There is even a rumour circulating that the Bard system, a technology that we at Sonneteer pioneered a decade or so ago may be about to re-emerge in a Mark Four guise. But you didn't hear it from us! British made since 1994. Designed for Audiophiles, made fro everyone. sonneteer.co.uk (http://www.sonneteer.co.uk/ Photos: https://www.prlog.org/ https://www.prlog.org/ https://www.prlog.org/ End
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