- Zero-loss vacuum tube input stage
- User accessible switch allows both 12 volt and 6 volt tubes to be used
- Differentially coupled balanced MOSFET output stage
- All through hole construction (no surface mount parts)
- PRP resistors in signal path
- 5 RCA Single ended inputs
- 5 XLR balanced inputs
- Single ended and balanced outputs
- Single ended and balanced outputs can be used together or separate
- Fully balanced input to output
- High current oversized power transformer
- Fully regulated power supplies using BHK designed MOSFET discrete voltage regulators
- Full BHK designed zero feedback, discrete MOSFET headphone stage
- Remote control
- Front panel standby button for vacuum tube stage
- -3dB greater than 200kHz
- Volume and balance through a revolutionary new combination of gain and attenuation control
- Two output DC control triggers
- Easy access to tubes if you want to roll with different ones
- Each input can be configured as a HT bypass
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Designed by Bascom H. King, the BHK Signature distills Bascom’s 50 plus years of high-end audio design experience into a single masterpiece of audio amplification. “This is the best sounding preamplifier I have ever designed or heard,” and that’s saying a lot for a man of Bascom’s experience.
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This is where it all started for the Lab12. Our love for music and high-end audio was our first and foremost challenge, explored years back throughout the headphone pre-amplifier. Dealing with the fragile signal and transforming it into the true high-end potent audio headphone amplifier is not the task, that everyone dares to explore.
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True was designed as a mighty and potent passive high-end audio hub with multiple inputs and ultra transparent, yet musical volume control. As all Lab12 products, the true also comes with the choice of multiple luxury paint finishes.
The new XP-12 starts with a new power supply. It uses an efficient toroidal design with both an electrostatic and Mu metal shield along with vacuum impregnating and epoxy fill. This gives us a very quiet transformer both electrically and mechanically.
The power supply circuitry itself is also lower noise and has additional filtering, a little more complicated but worth it.
The XP-12 uses the single stage volume control borrowed from the XS line preamp. This gives us one hundred 1 dB steps with lower noise and distortion while removing some signal path parts.
The gain circuitry continues to use our favorite transistors from Toshiba but has a larger higher biased output stage similar to the XS preamplifier auto bias. This makes longer and multiple cable runs easier to drive and gives us the advantage of simplifying our single ended output circuitry while increasing performance. Overall this makes for a quieter more neutral, musical and versatile control center for your system.
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