EXCITE YOUR SENSES!The Operetta's pre-amplifiers follow the same design concept of the Operetta amplifiers. Its well design circuitry coupled with fanatical attention to every single detail of the signal path. These pre-amps will work together with Operetta amps and give you an even better performance compared to other pre-amplifiers. Jaton's Operetta pre-amps and amps honor the classic tube and solid-state amplifiers of a generation ago. Rather than hyping those elegant designs with watts and burdening them with mass, Jaton has chosen instead to deliver power with finesse. Begin with the basic AP2140A amp , upgrade it with a RC2000 pre-amp. Or even to have the AP2300AX amp. Then you’ll live in a whole new musical world. Enjoythemusic review: Jaton? Never heard of them. Didn't see them at AXPONA. Review their equipment? Sure. Founded in 1983 in Taiwan, Jaton Corporation relocated to the United States in 1988. They make computer graphics boards, the kind that insert into computers like a card. The company decided to expand into more product lines around 1998 when they moved out of the US to Thailand. Perhaps they foresaw the day when tablet PCs overtake desktops and the market for graphics cards. Their Thailand factory started making powered 5.1 speaker systems around 2001. Jaton is pronounced as two syllables, with the accent on the first syllable ('je,ton). In Chinese, Jaton means is that they will arrive at the destination first if they walk faster than others do. Jaton Operetta RC2000PIt took Jaton four years to design and manufacture a complete stereo chain with player, amplifiers and loudspeaker. The RC2000P model is analog input only. The signal ratios of the bi-amp stereo outputs are 1:1. You do not need to use a splitter cable to divide the signal to 50% of original. Mid-high and low sections can have 100% signals. The Operetta A2300AX power amplifier has 300 Class A watts into 4 Ohms! The Operetta has clean, simple fit and finish. It is just another black box, with a shining blue read-out panel and sapphire eye. The tonality of the Jaton pre-amplifier was very good, balanced and not noticeably striking or lacking. The only solid-state, and the least expensive, unit in the shoot-out, the Operetta provided details and felt solid. It has no colorations or bloom of the tube units. It had no noticeable anomalies. Though these features make tube amplifiers less accurate, it also makes solid-state ones less engaging. Reviewers had a hard time describing the sound of the Jaton pre-amplifier. The word is neutral. The Jaton is a Swiss amplifier of neutrality. Compared to the tube pre-amplifiers in this brief shoot-out, the Operetta not only did not embarrass itself; it held its own. Nobody said anything seriously critical of it. Read that line again! Don't make light of it. Sometimes that is all that some tweaking audiophiles are looking for: a unit that gets out of the way of the music. Everybody was very impressed with its performance. I double and tripled checked the price on several occasions. Many listeners thought it was a very good value for the money. If you do not want your pre-amplifier to contribute to your stereo's sound, this is a unit to consider. The stand-by knob on the front panel acts like a quick power switch; one touch and the warmed-up unit is ready to rock. The final assembly and testing is in their Milpitas, California headquarters.
THD + N % < 0.01% @ 8 Ohm, 1 kHz, 70 Watts
Signal to Noise Ratios:105 dB
Frequency Response: 10 Hz ~ 100 kHz +/- 0.2dB, -3.0 dB @ 168 KHz
Analog Linearity vs. Amp: <0.01 dB, -90 dB ~ +10 dB
Volume Range: -85 dB ~ + 5 dB
Maximum Output:1.7 Vrms @ 1.0 Vrms Input Level
Input Impedance(XLR): 20 k Ohm
Input Impedance(RCA):100 k Ohm
Input Connections:
1 Pair of XLR Analog; 3 Pairs of RCA Analog
Output Connection:
Output# 1 XLR/RCA; Output# 2 Bi-Amp RCA
Dimensions: 17.0”(W) x 4”(H) x 14.5”(D)
Weight: 18 LBS
Final Assembly and Test in California, U.S.A.
MSRP: $1,500
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