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Dana Electro Acoustics Control Components
Each Dana Electro Acoustics Control Component
unit is housed within 435x370x25mm [iso:form]™ Vibration Isolation
Platform, available in wood or carbon
fiber composite housing.
- Active Pre-amplifier is a single-ended
valve (thermionic vacuum tube) signal amplifier with balanced and single-ended
Output Line Driver. This item requires at least Passive (or Active) Mains
Switch and Passive Volume Control.
- Passive Volume Control utilizes a precision
(audiophile quality, dual, analogue, logarithmic, conductive plastic film)
potentiometer to regulate stereo volume level. Action is continuos / stepless,
smooth and noise-free. This component alone can improve sound reproduction
enormosly, especially when compared to digital volume controls and other
conventional volume controls.
- Passive Source Selector is a 5 stereo
input selector switch. The switch itself is a micro sized component, a marvel
of modern engineering. Hermetically sealed contacts are first silver plated
and than gold plated over the silver for reliable long term performance
and very low resistance.
- Passive Mains Switch controls mains
voltage power to all components that are plugged into it's power distribution
board. For convenience and safety, all units that are plugged into the power
board can be switched on or off by pressing one button. The unit incorporates
mains voltage spike protection and RF / EMI filter for improved audio performance
of connected units. The switch itself is a robust unit, rated at 15 amperes
and 250V, having less than 0.01ohm resistance and maximum
supply voltage loss of only 0.0005%. The switch is designed to be operated
without a failure ten times per hour for one hundred years.
- Active Master-Slave Mains Switch is
a small device that can be used instead of Passive Mains Switch. It monitors
the on/off status of the master component, and switches a slave component
to on/off accordingly. For example, if a CD player is used as a master component,
and an amplifier is used as a slave component, turning the CD on will turn
on the amplifier automatically. Maximum power of the master is 700W, and
of the slave 2400W (combined power of all devices connected to the slave).
This unit is not housed in [iso:form]™ platform.
- Active Output Line Driver provides
unity gain signal that can be transmitted down very long single ended or
balanced lines without loss of detail. Recommended when signal lines are
longer than 3m per channel, or in electrically noisy environments
- Active Input Buffer provides optimum
load to non-balanced signal component that is connected to it. Recommended
for high output resistance signal components or when signal component is
very far (more than 10m) from next component.
