Source: Press Release, Last Accessed: 2024/05/09

Touraj Moghaddam, founder and chief executive of Vertere, announced the Calon, the first Vertere high-end dual-mono phono preamplifier. Calon has been designed to ensure that all the performance gains enabled by recent improvements in Vertere Record players, especially the new XtraX cartridge, SG-II PTA HB, and Reference tonearms, are not lost, the company says.
The case is machined from non-magnetic (austenitic)stainless steel, which brings a high level of shielding without the ferromagnetic eddy currents and field hysteresis problems iron or steel would bring. The knobs are super-polished stainless steel.
According to press release, each part of the circuit has been created to maximize performance and be part of a high-end whole. The gain structure has been carefully calculated, designed, and implemented to deliver the best transparency, detail resolution, and dynamics from any cartridge.
The cartridge input first enters a gain stage with user-selectable gain (default, +10dB, +20dB). Then, it is subjected to the RIAA de-emphasis where the HF section is passive and the LF active. After this, there is another user-selectable gain stage (0dB, +2dB, +4dB, +6dB, +8db) leading to the output RCAs and the balanced output line driver stage. Both outputs are on (except when muted), but connecting and using one at a time is best.
Calon includes a switchable subsonic linear phase filter that has a practically unmeasurable effect above 20Hz. In addition, the output of Calon can be 180° phase inverted for those rare records recorded/mastered with incorrect absolute phase.
Calon is user-configurable for most moving magnet and moving coil cartridges available. The front panel knobs allow the choice of nine input loads and nine options of capacitance together with 15 choices of gain.
Calon will be available in July 2024 and sell for €18.998; $19.995.

For more information: https://www.vertereacoustics.com/

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