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The Frequency Response is 7Hz – 90kHz within -1dB and 3Hz – 215kHz within -3db. The maximum slew rate for both small signal and the maximum output voltage is 100V/μs, which is equivalent to a maximum output voltage at approximately 250 kHz.

To ensure trouble-free operation under any circumstances, the Eclipse amplifier is exceptionally well-protected. The power supply is protected against most mains transients. It will cut out if common faults are detected, such as over-voltage, master clock at incorrect frequency, or excessive temperatures. The power amplifier section is short-circuit proof and protected against most input overloads. It has over-current limiting and protection against overheating. It will cut out if a continuous DC offset appears on output or if the output current continuously exceeds 12 A average over a period of a few minutes. The latter may seem like a compromise, but Halcro has rigorously tested this and confirmed that this condition never occurs in normal music reproduction. Hence, it poses no limitations.

https://www.whathifi.com/news/chord-teases-suzi-prepower-amplifier-concept-thats-like-lego-for-your-hi-fi

The pictures above give an idea of what the Suzi pre/power will look like, but it’s hard to gauge more details or dimensions without seeing them in person. However, we know the Hugo 2 and 2go combo is about the size of a paperback novel, which gives an idea of just how compact the Suzi combo is. 

The Suzi preamp and Suzi power amplifier will be launching formally this autumn, at which time we’ll have full details, specifications and pricing to keep you up to speed.

Before that, however, we’ll be on the ground at the High End Munich show to bring you as many details and hands-on images as we can when we see Chord’s new Suzi products on display. Chord has one more product – this time a digital one designed by Rob Watts – to still reveal, so stay tuned for all our Munich show news and coverage as the event starts on 9th May

https://www.stereophile.com/content/octave-audio-v70-class-integrated-amplifier

I started my vinyl listening with Bell Orchestre’s House Music (LP, Erased Tapes Records ERATP141LP-CA), a rock-classical hybrid instrumental work that includes several string instruments, group chanting, and a menagerie of seamlessly integrated studio sound effects. Via the Octave’s phono stage, the band sounded bigger than six members—more vaulted and sonically varied with a richer, more reverberant consistency. The V 70’s characteristic transparency, big-picture boldness, and the detail retrieval I’d heard with digital came through, if not quite to the same level. (That limitation could be a reflection more of the sources I was using than of the phono itself.)

Texture and transient tactility were conspicuous. On the first track, “Opening,” violin and double bass produced vibrant, rich-brown tone and vibrational texture that seemed serrated. The drums were focused, dynamically spry, and, judging by the arc of the drum hits, compact. The group chanting was almost Star Trek–y, with its extended-vowel, dashing-through–outer-space aura, vocally layered and luxuriantly toned. The phono stage emphasized the music’s coherency, both in the sense of a band playing together in the same room and in their creative complicity, the feeding-off-each-other group dynamic.