A Competitor to Audio Note's Kondo?
In the new Robert Koda amplifier ‘Takumi K-70’, ex-Audio Note UK and Audio Note Japan (Kondo) engineer Mr. Robert Koch merges traditional artisan techniques with lateral-thinking to express his unique design philosophy.
The ‘Takumi K-70’ tri-chassis power amplifier is a marriage of a single-ended triode input stage, thirty-two power transistors and a 600 VA R-core transformer per channel, executed with a selection of highest-grade wiring harnesses and components.
The amp delivers 70 watts per channel of pure Class A. A unique circuit design with a DC Reactor Power Supply and an arsenal of 1000 watts on the power rails is said to provide for life-like dynamics and transient response.
This 80 kg tour de force is encased in an aluminium chassis and finished in champagne-gold. Each ‘Takumi K-70’ is expertly hand-crafted in Tokyo by Mr. Robert Koch in a strictly limited quantity of twenty units per annum worldwide.
The first and apparently currently the only ‘Takumi K-70’ in the EU is available for demonstration in Coventry, England by Amplitune UK. The press release does not mention the price. But arrival of an amp like this is an event and therefore worth highlighting.
Distributor: www.amplitune.co.uk
Manufacturer: www.robert-koda.com
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