Amplifier Unison Research P40
Despite the fact that the single-ended Simply Two more known, the first integrated amplifier company was still two-stroke class AB four EL34 called Triode 20. Modern P40 issued under the name of 40 watts per channel for a 6-ohm load is characterized as: two pairs pentodes EL34V ultralinear inclusion in the output stage operating in class AB. The manual states the presence of CAB depth of 14 dB, which covers only the last stages, the output transformers of special design and stable power filament lamps. Amplifier is gaining shape fairly quickly after switching on. When you remove the guard, except quartet pentodes, and other elements are found: one 12AX7 and two 12AU7A; all of them Russian.
Italy assumes great design, and this statement can be regarded as an axiom. Luxury item in the external appearance of the device - the front vertical panel of translucent corrugated Murano glass. Murano, an island in the Venetian lagoon, has a long-standing international reputation for his master glassblowers. Local glaziers sure they do not simply applied household items and works of art, many artists seek to cooperate with murantsami, confirming the validity of their claims. Unison Research, experimenting with new materials for the decoration of their amplifiers, are not passed by this miracle. Even off P40 captivates unusual oval body, upper removable cover with ventilation slots, put in a rigorous and sophisticated geometric pattern maze, and of course, the large panel of dark Murano glass. A TT lamps mysteriously shine through it, creating a very unique atmosphere. Aluminum body, soft contours marvelous harmony with matt aluminum knobs, too, and the whole look evokes a feeling of balance and completeness. Elegant final touch - control panel with a bed of wood, cozy and like all nestling in hand.
The beautiful thing may not sound bad. Maybe it's not always true, but for Unison Research absolutely coincides with reality. And "beautiful" in this case does not imply that a particular lamp color. P40 plays a very balanced and harmonious, not bright or dim, not heat and not cold, without a viscous gravity and featureless ephemerality - the perfect balance in all respects. Close voices in Baroque music are separated clearly and without ambiguity, downright delicately drawn bass. Such an abundance of rhythmic micro-nuances and diamond exact pauses in lower case no one else has in the test, although the fullness of the pedal body or the lower notes of the piano could be a little more - but just a different style. Play music free from angularity and awkwardness, in one way or another characteristic of transistor structures of the same class, but while maintaining the sharpness of the attack and the spontaneity of sound. Natural sounds lyrical, clear and transparent from top to bottom, the problems with temporitme not even a trace - all served very at ease and relaxed. In addition, this relatively inexpensive amplifier forms an excellent synergistic bunch acoustics New Audio Frontiers Reference 7.1, chosen for the test.
