The KOALA Tube is the Goldenote most famous Tube CD player built on a standard rack chassis. The transport is of the drawer type and is designed to achieve excellent disc rotation stability. The KOALA Tube, despite its reasonable price tag, is an high class CD player uses the latest Goldenote digital technology, the new filter called Zero-Clock™ and the Electro-Power™ power supply system.
The internal DAC uses an original filter enables the KOALA to reproduce a very wide bandwidth with low signal compression.
The KOALA Tube Electro-Power™ is the renewed self adjusting power supply enables to keep absolutely stable internal micro and macro voltages guaranteeing a precise smooth voltage in all electrical local digital and analog audio signal paths.
The Motor is controlled by the latest release Electro-Power™ system, it enables the CD player to reduce speed fluctuations lower than 0.0001% in fitting any electrical home system perfectly.
The Electro-Power™ galvanically shields the CD player to get the best sound performances available.
The KOALA Tube features a balanced analog audio output stage made with two 6922 mini tubes to offer State-of-the-Art performance.
"""An abstract from the most recent 2008 review about the Koala Tube says: .....When a digital player has one of the best treated mechanisms in the Market, a very clever design on the digital to analog conversion, a very quiet and very well balanced at all valve output stage and mostly when it plays music with so much fidelity, I judge that you must hear it before you make any decision, even if you are heading for a CD player in the range of 4/5.000euro.....
Goldenote Koala Tube Technical Data
24 bit/192kHz DAC, CD Player
Frequency Response: 8Hz - 25KHz @ -3dB (though CD top limit tech is 22.05Khz)
THD (Total Harmonic Distortion): 0,08% Max.
SIGNAL/NOISE RATIO: 80dB
DYNAMIC RESPONSE: 125dB
OUTPUT LEVEL: 2,5V
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE: 800ohm
ANALOG OUTPUT: STEREO RCA and XLR balanced outputs
DIGITAL OUTPUT: 75 ohms RCA connector
SPEED FLUCTUATION: 0,0001% Max.
CONTROL DIGITAL SYSTEM: Zero-Clock™
POWER SUPPLY: Electro-Power™ 100 to 260Volt 50/60Hz super linear triple transfomer
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