Wellington Audio
Music Matters
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John Geisen
15200 Golden Point Lane
West Palm Beach, FL
33414
USA

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Wellington Audio is all about music and equipment that allows you to forget about the products you are listening to; and instead lets you concentrate on the “message” communicated by the performers.

Our slogan, “Music Matters”, is exactly how I feel about the power and impact of listening to music that has been properly reproduced in your home. After hours of being in a stressful environment, only music is able to relieve the resulting effects, serving to re-align your nervous system into your body’s natural rhythms. This is as close to magic as I have ever experienced.

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AN-E/LX 'Lexus' Signature Loudspeaker

The AN-E must be the most efficient wide band speaker of moderate size on the market, with an effective bandwidth from 18 Hz to 23 kHz at -6 dB, efficiency better than 95 dB/m and a dynamic headroom above 108 dB. The extremely high efficiency is retained well over the bandwidth, and makes the AN-E very suited to the high quality, low-power triode amplifiers that will form the future of music reproduction, once our obsession with power and specifications is generally recognized as folly.

The AN-E is a two-way, ported enclosure, with a carefully designed cabinet which is shaped to enhance and aid driver dispersion on one hand, and bass output on the other. The cabinet is lightly braced and little internal damping is used. The cabinet is designed in such a way that it augments and supports the drivers in their task, not unlike the box of a guitar. The drivers are selected and paired before they are matched to the crossover in the same process as the AN-K and AN-J.

Dimensions: (Height, Width, Depth) 790 x 360 x 270mm (31" x 14" x 10.5").

AN-E/LX 'Lexus' Loudspeaker

The AN-E must be the most efficient wide band speaker of moderate size on the market, with an effective bandwidth from 18 Hz to 23 kHz at -6 dB, efficiency better than 95 dB/m and a dynamic headroom above 108 dB. The extremely high efficiency is retained well over the bandwidth, and makes the AN-E very suited to the high quality, low-power triode amplifiers that will form the future of music reproduction, once our obsession with power and specifications is generally recognized as folly.

The AN-E is a two-way, ported enclosure, with a carefully designed cabinet which is shaped to enhance and aid driver dispersion on one hand, and bass output on the other. The cabinet is lightly braced and little internal damping is used. The cabinet is designed in such a way that it augments and supports the drivers in their task, not unlike the box of a guitar. The drivers are selected and paired before they are matched to the crossover in the same process as the AN-K and AN-J.

Dimensions: (Height, Width, Depth) 790 x 360 x 270mm (31" x 14" x 10.5").

AN-E/SPe Loudspeaker

The AN-E must be the most efficient wide band speaker of moderate size on the market, with an effective bandwidth from 18 Hz to 23 kHz at -6 dB, efficiency better than 95 dB/m and a dynamic headroom above 108 dB. The extremely high efficiency is retained well over the bandwidth, and makes the AN-E very suited to the high quality, low-power triode amplifiers that will form the future of music reproduction, once our obsession with power and specifications is generally recognized as folly.

The AN-E is a two-way, ported enclosure, with a carefully designed cabinet which is shaped to enhance and aid driver dispersion on one hand, and bass output on the other. The cabinet is lightly braced and little internal damping is used. The cabinet is designed in such a way that it augments and supports the drivers in their task, not unlike the box of a guitar. The drivers are selected and paired before they are matched to the crossover in the same process as the AN-K and AN-J.

Dimensions: (Height, Width, Depth) 790 x 360 x 270mm (31" x 14" x 10.5").

AN-J/Spe Loudspeaker

2-way 1" dome tweeter, 8" woofer, rear ported, 93dB sensitivity, all round wood veneered Russian birch plywood cabinet with AN-SPe silver speaker cable

The AN-J models offer higher sensitivity and better bass performance, combined with a more dynamic presentation than the AN-K, in an enclosure that is about three times the volume.

The AN-J is a ported enclosure with an efficiency better than 93 dB/m and bass that goes down to 25 Hz at -6 dB. The AN-J is capable of reproducing the scale and intensity of most well-recorded music very realistically.

Like all our other loudspeakers, the AN-J undergoes the same painstaking driver selection and matching process, which ensures the closest tolerances within a pair in the entire audio industry.

Dimensions: (Height, Width, Depth) 585 x 330 x 235mm (23" x 13" x 9.25").

Oto SE Phono Integrated Amplifier

10 watt Class A single-ended EL84 line only integrated amplifier, 4 inputs & tape loop, 4 x ECC83 4 x EL84. The MM Phono version adds 1 x ECC83 and 1 x 6DJ8 to the valve compliment.

Ongaku Integrated Amplifier

211 SE integrated amplifier, original NOS Telefunken 6463 input stage driving an in-house designed and made 1:2 Audio Note™ silver wired driver transformer on a double AN-Perma 50 nickel C-core, standard Level 4 components, Audio Note™ 2 watt Tantalum resistors, Black Gate™ electrolytics, in-house designed and made Audio Note 99.99% pure silver wired double AN-Perma 50 nickel C-core output transformer, 2 x NOS 5R4WGB rectifiers, HiB double C-core mains transformer, remote control version available.

Output tubes: 211. 27 Watts ClassA

Quest Silver Monoblock Amplifier

9 watt single-ended Class A no feedback triode mono amplifiers, valve rectified choke power supply, 2 x 300B, 2 x 6SN7, 2 x 5U4G, Low gain version is available with single stage input using a 6J5 for use with highly efficient speakers like the AN-E/LX HEG with Audio Note™ tantalum resistors, copper foil signal capacitors, Black Gate electrolytic capacitors in many places and HiB copper wired double C-core output transformers, low gain version available.

It is important to understand that sonically it is desirable to have as much gain available in the circuit as possible, as the wider the dynamic gain window is the better the amplifier/system handles wide dynamic signal levels (contrary to popular belief, dynamics have NOTHING to do with power, it is a function of how much each stage in a circuit’s gain window limits the dynamic peaks), having very high gain and therefore sensitivity in a power amplifier creates problems with background noise levels. All Audio Note™ power amplifiers have heavily silver plated RCA input and speaker terminals with 4 & 8Ohm output impedance. Despite the low power output of all out power amplifiers, their ability to drive speakers with even quite low efficiency, there is naturally a limit to how loud it is possible to play, however, even 86dB efficient loudspeakers can be used in smaller rooms.

Conquest Silver Signature Monoblock Amplifier

18 watt parallel single-ended Class A no feedback mono power amplifiers, choke coupled valve rectified power supply, 4 x 300B, 2 x 6SN7, 2 x 5U4G with Audio Note™ tantalum resistors and copper foil signal capacitors, Black Gate electrolytic capacitors in many places and High B copper wired double C-core output transformers. Signature edition has added Black Gate capacitors, Audio Note™ silver wiring and copper wired R36 double C-core output transformers.

M9 Linestage Pre-Amplifier

The record collectors dream pre-amplifier, RIAA correction partially by transformer, input stage E80F audio pentode in each channel and an E80CC double triode in the second stage, line valves are ECC82/12AU7 first stage and 7044/E182CC output stage driving the nickel c-core silver wired output transformer. The separate power supply featuring improved version of M8 PSU, with 2 x 6X5, 2 x OB2 and 2 x ECL82/6BM8.

M3 Phono Pre-Amplifier

Level Three line pre-amplifier with 5687 line stage and Audio Note™ tantalum resistors, simplified choke smoothed 6X5 rectified power supply with Audio Note 1 watt tantalum resistors and in-house designed and wound HiB double C-core copper wired output transformer.

DAC 4.1x Balanced Digital-to-Analog Converter

D/A converter. Selected AD1865N chip with 1xoversampling™ direct from disc™ technology with silver wired and patented Audio Note™ I/V transformer interface and digital input transformer. 2 x 5687 NOS double triodes coupled to a custom made 5:1 Audio Note™ copper wired output transformer with thin lamination HiB double C-cores with both XLR and . High grade Black Gate™ capacitors and Audio Note™ tantalum film resistors everywhere, separate digital and analogue mains transformers and power supplies with 6X5 rectified choke power supply.

DAC 1.1x MkII Signature Digital-to-Analog Converter

As DAC One.1x with upgraded components, AN ½ watt tants, Black Gate™ capacitors, Audio Note™ copper foil signal caps and copper wired digital input transformer in powder coated chassis with black acrylic or brushed aluminium front panel. Anode follower no feedback (NFB) output stage. The demultiplexing circuit makes this compatible with 24Bit/96KHz sources including DVD, computer etc.

CDT-Two/II Transport

Top loading CD transport, Philips CD Pro mechanism, Black Gate’d power supply, DAC1.1x/II size chassis.

Turntable TT2/Arm Three with IO-1 cartridge and AN-S4 transformer

Two motor version of the TT-1 with increased torque and stability. Three point suspended sub chassis, acrylic platter, available in black ash only.

 
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