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Badlands
$12,000.00 - $15,000.00
The badlands comes to us as an access point to the state level performance of the Yosemite while optimizing size and functions. It's a pure tube rectified line stage. No regulators, or integrated circuits. It's a pure analog tube line stage with all the drive and gain you could ask for with out meaningful noise or distortion. Perfect? No but pretty dam close and every improving.
The Badlands is a Yosemite in an easier to consume package allowing using of personal audio systems to place on their desk or 2ch users to select phono stages of choice. The Badlands is the consummate purist’s choice. It utilizes our in-house power transformer and is the first to incorporate filament regulation via filament choke.
The Badlands provides 3 inputs including 1 stereo XLR and 2 pairs of RCAs. Outputs are a pair of stereo RCAs allowing utilization of 2 different amplifiers.
We conceived the Badlands to be the bridge between personal audio and 2ch. You have your Bal Dac in via XLR and external phono stage, when the 2 output provide gain and volume control for your headphone and 2ch rig side by side.
The Badlands utilizes the most popular 9pin tubes being 12AX7s and a single 12BH7 along side a single 5Y3/5V4/5U4/5AR4 rectifier.
With a gain of 16db and THD: 0.007%, the Badlands offers gain and tone without meaningful noise.
From a function standpoint, while the Badlands is your control center with the Kenzie integrated headphone amp being a natural pair for headphones and the Stereo 17 matching the needs of any 2ch system. Each component is 12" wide x 10" deep and 6" tall. Their shallow depth is intentional as to allow for ease placement on bookshelf.
Volume control is a 24step volume pot for precise Chanel balance.
Some of the interesting points of the pre.
The Badlands is a line stage based on the venerable Marantz 7.
The nature of this pre was to give all the sonic dividends of the Marantz 7 but in a more robust/serviceable package. Though heavy, its meant to be lab grade… as such, failures should be very uncommon and fixing them straight forward.
Specs:
Badlands Pre Turret Based
Noise : 15uV RMS
THD : 0.004%
THD+N : 0.007%
Gain : 16 dB
Freq. Resp. : 2 Hz (+1 dB) to 70 kHz (-1 dB)
Badlands Pre PCB Based
Noise: 4 uV RMS
THD: 0.007%
THD+N: 0.008%
Gain: 16 dB
Freq. Resp. : 5 Hz to 80 kHz (-1dB)
Tube compliment for Line:
12AX7 left and 12AX7 right are used for gain.
The centered 12BH7 is the Driver
Balanced to Single ended conversion done with custom Cinemag input transformers.