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CH PRECISION L1 DUAL MONAURAL LINE STAGE ANALOG PREAMPLIFIER

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Any great line-stage must possess transparency, ultra-low noise performance and absolute stability. It must anchor the incoming signals and deliver them onwards, propelled from a firm footing that ensures dynamic and musical authority. It must pass the source signals in your system, without limitation or disturbance, leaving no trace of itself on their passage. Any great line-stage needs to be the next best thing to sonically and musically invisible, the hi-fi equivalent of effortlessly enacting its own audio super power.

Like all CH Precision products, the L1 uses fully discrete, balanced and complementary design, ultra-short signal paths and exactingly selected components. It is fed from heavily regulated and filtered power supplies, is wide-bandwidth, high slew-rate and DC coupled. But in this critical application, that’s not enough. It’s one thing to eliminate unnecessary components from the signal path and eliminate DC offset at the inputs, but the L1 takes things much, much further than that. Completely separate left and right channel circuit boards prevent crosstalk, while a super sophisticated, software driven R-2R network for each channel employs precision metal-film resistors and allows precise level control in 0.5dB steps with the minimum possible number of components. DC offset is monitored and eliminating not just at the inputs but throughout the volume control ladder and at multiple points throughout the entire circuit. That makes the L1 not just one of the quietest line-stages ever built, it makes it one of the quietest in operation too.

Modularity

  • Dual Monaural (Left & Right channels in a single enclosure), 8 inputs
  • True Monaural (one channel per enclosure), 8 or 16 inputs

Inputs and Outputs

  • 8x line-level inputs (4x balanced XLR, 2x single-ended RCA, 2x single-ended BNC)
  • 4x pre-amplifier outputs (2prs balanced XLR, 1pr single-ended RCA, 1pr single-ended BNC)

Volume Control

  • 20bits R-2R ladder network
  • 118dB range in 0.5dB steps, from -100dB to +18dB
  • Tight tolerance high-grade metal film resistors

Analog Signal Path

  • Balanced XLR, single-ended RCA & BNC inputs and outputs
  • Powerful discrete output buffer to drive long interconnects and/or multiple amplifiers
  • Ultra-low-noise, high-bandwidth, high-slew-rate design
  • Pure class A, fully-symmetrical topology
  • Fully discrete, transistor based circuitry
  • Switchable absolute phase and mono settings

Power Supply

  • Dedicated discrete regulated linear power supplies
  • Ultra low noise, high accuracy regulation
  • Shunt regulators for all audio stages
  • Can be powered from the X1 External Power Supply

Optional Hardware

  • L1 Enclosure – the addition of a second L1 enclosure transforms the L1 into a True Monaural line pre-amplification system, with separate enclosures for each channel
  • Monaural Analog Preamplifier Board – in a True Monaural system (with two enclosures), each enclosure is able to receive an extra preamplifier board. This turns the L1 into a True Monaural Extended system, providing the preamplifier with 16 as opposed to 8 inputs, if required

Technical Specifications

Max analog input and output levels
16V RMS balanced
8V RMS single-ended

Input impedance
94kΩ or 600Ω balanced
47kΩ or 300Ω single-ended

Output impedance
BNC connectors: 50Ω
RCA connectors: 75Ω
XLR connectors: 2 x 30Ω

Frequency response
DC – 1MHz

Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise
Output 3V RMS, 22kHz BW
< 0.001%, 1kHz, unity gain

Signal to Noise Ratio
Maximum output
> 136dB, unity gain

Dimensions/Weight
440 x 440 x 133mm (W x D x H), 20kg

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