Conrad JohnsonCAV-45-s2usedConrad Johnson CAV-45-s2 (UPDATED Read Ad) Winner of TONE AudioAppearance is a 9.6. Open to reasonable offers. This amp is a high value item. You get the CJ sound with built in preamp. Reasonable offers will be accepted; unrealistic offers rejected. Buyer pa...3200.00

Conrad Johnson CAV-45-s2 (UPDATED Read Ad) Winner of TONE Audio

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Ships fromAtlanta, GA, 30360
Ships toUnited States
Package dimensionsunspecified
Shipping carrierFedEx
Shipping cost$130.00
Original accessoriesBox, Manual
AverageResearch Pricing


Appearance is a 9.6. Open to reasonable offers. This amp is a high value item. You get the CJ sound with built in preamp. Reasonable offers will be accepted; unrealistic offers rejected. 
Buyer pays any Paypal Fee’s added to Final Sale. I do accept bank checks as well; no fees.  


This amp has maybe 90 hours on it. I am the second owner. I purchased it to listen to while my GAT was being serviced by Conrad Johnson. It has the latest and most recent transformers used in Classic 62 and is the current production. It comes with all stock tubes and Tube Cage. It looks new. There are no scratches on the face plate or top. It pairs well with my Hifi ROSE 150 which I use for digital and ROSE has a remote control for DAC. 
“And…we are creating a new category of award for this amplifier: The TONE Masterpiece Award, as the CAV-45S2 is truly a masterpiece.” —Tone
Ships with insurance to lower 48 states east of Colorado. West of Colorado add 15% shipping cost and real cost will be applied with insurance. 

CAV45-S2 Stereo Control Amplifier

The control amplifier represents a distinctly different approach to high-performance home audio. In many ways it is the ultimate embodiment of our design philosophy that simple circuits yield best results.

Similar in function to an integrated amplifier, a control amplifier offers the significant potential improvement of eliminating extra connections, external cabling, and inter-device connection considerations that limit conventional audio systems. But the control amplifier also eliminates an entire stage of audio circuitry (the line stage) and its inherent colorations.

The CAV45-S2 is a vacuum-tube control amplifier. Its audio circuit is similar to our highly regarded Classic Sixty power amplifier, with triode voltage gain and phase inverter stages and an output stage comprised of a pair of EL34s per channel operated in ultralinear mode to produce 60 watts per channel.

The use of carefully selected, high-quality parts enables the CAV45-S2 to properly exploit the dramatic potential of a control amplifier to enhance the immediacy of musical experience afforded by fine recordings. All resistors in the audio circuits and related power supplies are precision metal film types. With the exception of the large power supply reservoir capacitors (which are specially chosen electrolytic capacitors bypassed by polypropylenes), all capacitors in these circuits use polystyrene and polypropylene dielectrics.

This execution of minimalist circuitry with quality parts result in a control amplifier that is notable for its resolution of subtle dynamic shadings and palpable imaging, for a natural harmonic tonality, and extraordinary resolution.

The CAV45-S2 features larger value electrolytic capacitors in the unregulated power supply, yielding improved bass response and lower noise floor. The binding posts are billet brass, rhodium over silver plate, with billet brass, gold plate nut.


 

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