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deHavilland Electric Amplifier Company
Kara has completed this project after two years of development. She has taken a classic and very wonderful sounding amplifier the Fischer 50A. She has re-worked it, taking out circuits that don't add to the music, adding a “slow warm up” to preserve tube life, plus a number of other modifications that take this classic amplifier and transformed it into a modern challenger to the worlds best amplifiers. Though this amplifier is new the word is getting out.
Chris Martens in the latest February edition of The Absolute Sound heard them in our room at the 2010 RMAF, and said,
“Though I've heard the Wilson-Benesch Curve floorstanders ($9950/Pair) many times before, I found that they sounded spectacularly good as driven by Kara Chaffee's amazing deHavilland tube electronics . Nothing I heard at RMAF, save perhaps for the far more expensive Vandersteen/ARC system, could touch this rig for sheer midrange purity, detail, three-dimensionality." Chris Martens Feb. 2010.
 The deHavilland GM70 - Getting it right. That is what the GM-70 is all about. The joy and the emotion of the music. Without that why listen? No disappointment here, with the most output of any single ended amp with a single output tube. The purity of one output tube with the power of many, 50 watts of "raging" pure class A single-ended triode. The GM-70 tube is a Russian tank tube, no light weight fragile little thing. These mono blocks sound nothing at all like a typical 300B or any other single ended amplifiers you might have heard. They seemingly have the power of a much more powerful amplifier. We have compared them to the Antique Sound Labs 200 watt per channel Hurricanes that HP raves about. We have compared them to the 140 watt Atma-Sphere MA-1's. Retail is $10,000
 The deHavilland Aries 845-G - The Aries 845-G is a Single Ended Directly Heated Triode amplifier. The Aries delivers 30 Watts RMS into an 8 ohm load and 36 Watts into a 4 ohm load. These mono blocks have all the resolving power of the low powered 300B's and 2A3's yet with power to spare and a much bigger tonal quality, plus a more authoritative presentation and bigger dynamics are what you can expect to hear. This amplifier will astonish you. Retail is $8,595
 The deHavilland Ios Stereo 845 - The newest amplifier from deHavilland is the Ios Stereo 845. This is a great amplifier for great sound quality, budget and for convenience. This amp has all the great sonic attributes of the Aries 845 G, 100% pure Class A, single ended triode with directly heated 845 triode tubes and zero negative feedback. You get the simplicity of a stereo amplifier with savings over the mono blocks. In addition this amplifier is available with three inputs and a Noble Volume Control or Goldpoint Stepped Attenuator. In other words just plug in your CD player, phono preamp or DVD and you have music, great music. Retail is $6,595
The deHavilland Preamplifiers. "The best design should be the simplest design to allow the listen to hear the magic of the tubes."
 The deHavilland Mercury 3 Preamplifier - Designed around the georgeous sounding Type 85 Triode Tube with those "oh so cool" grid caps, this sweet heart is a giant killer. Super Dynamics Huge Full Bodied Soundstage and best of all "breathe taking realism." Retail price is $3,995. Add $500 for remote control.
 The deHavilland Ultra Verve 2 Preamplifier - This very simple and totally involving preamplifier uses the large 6SN7 Octal Tube with the 5AW4 Octal Tube Rectifier. Zero negative feedback. All point to point wiring and like the Mercury it has a huge sound stage. Available with several different volume controls so it can fit even a restrictive budget. Don't worry about the sound quality however Dick Olsher said that this is his current choice in line amplification, and he has heard a lot of preamplifiers. Retail price is $2,495. Add $500 for remote control.
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