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Sonneteer Campion Stunning sounding amplifier
Sonneteer Campion
Sonneteer?
Who are Sonneteer? would you like to know? read on to find out just
who they are and also let us look a bit more closely at the Sonneteer
range of hifi audio products.
Firstly get comfy, sit back and lets take a step back in time and have a little look at the history of the British High-End brand Sonneteer.
A little
sonneteer history
Let us travel back to 1994, not that long ago, as a British high end
company, Sonneteer have epitomised the best in high quality, high
technology hifi. As a British, high end hifi manufacture, Sonneteer
was founded by Remo Casadei and Haider Bahrani in 1994, but the story
doesn't start there. It all first really began in 1988 when on their
first day at Kingston University Remo and Haider bumped into each
other on the Electronics Engineering Degree course. The natural greeting
formalities of the odd swear word and sarcasm the start of a friendship
was cemented.
Haider had a band and Remo wanted to be it's manager. Out of this
'Fine Thang Musico' emerged as little bit of business for putting
on shows.
This hopelessly fumbled through their student days making them a little
bit of beer and kebab money, but no more.
In his final year Haider designed an amplifier for his final year project. He really just wanted it for himself and use it while playing guitar and recording his fine excuses for songs(ehem). Remo on the other hand was a bit of an aspiring audiophile and 'borrowed amplifier and showed it off to his hifi junky friends.
"We are going to start a business"
cried Remo. Haider looked at him in horror and faked a mild grin and
went off to do a little bit of work in the music business and then
an MSc. In the mean time Remo wasn't giving up and went on to turn
Haider's semi cooked design into something that could be respectably
presented to the public at large. "OK, OK! what the heck",
Haider cried and so Sonneteer was born. Oh that first amp, is now
know as the Campoin, yes that's right, the Sonneteer Campion
was born to the world and what a little beauty it proved to be.
From hear on in, everything was team work. Not one design out of the
Sonneteer stables doesn't feature the paw prints of both Remo and
Haider, the audio world was about to sit and and take note because
over the next few years Sonneteer were to weave their magic many a
time as each and every new product was greeted with great applause.
Sonneteer have a very simple motto behind their thinking, "At Sonneteer, we design products that we can live with in out own homes. If we don't like it we wont expect anyone else to. It is that simple".
So that begs the question, just what made Eden Audio want to distribute Sonneteers products in Spain? The answer is really quite simple, you know sometimes you hear something, you smile to yourself and give the nod of approval, well that's just what happened when it came to the sound of Sonneteer, there was a magic, something that clicked that just said, I want that sound. That sound was made by a small little integrated amplifier that went by the simple of name of Campion, it was in fact the first ever Sonneteer product to hit the market, the Sonneteer Campion had be born and it was here in Eden Audio.
Sonneteer Campion......in the begining
How do you know when something is right? The answer is simple, it never changes. That's just what happened to the Sonneteer campion, it was made just right, the basic design and looks are the exact same as to what it was when the Campion first saw the light of day many years ago, a true testament to this legendary design.
The
Sonneteer Campion has been the main stay of the Sonneteer
product line over the past ten years. It has established Itself as
the Classic esoteric British amplifier with a renowned build and sound
quality that speaks for itself, the reviews though have helped. A
solid state line integrated amplifier with a class A/B output stage
in mode using Bipolar Junction Transistors.
It has 5 inputs and one line level output. Two of the inputs (CD and DIR) are passive with the remaining three active suiting low output program sources like tape machines and some phono stages. The Campion has a medium gain phono stage in place of one of the active line inputs as standard. This is suited to medium to high output cartridges.
Technical Specifications:
Power: 33watts C, 55watts A into 8ohm
60watts C, 100watts A into 4ohms
Inputs: 5 @ 10k
Audio Outputs: 1 x line,
Speaker Out: 2 sets.
THD+N: 0.005% @ 1kHz Full power
Weight: 10kg C, 12kg A.
Other: MM phono on Campion. On line 2.
Reviews: “...the Campion worked wonders, delivering near studio
definition...”
”Transparency is to a high order, with an excellent portrayal
of three-dimensional depth...”
Shortly after it's release the specialist audio press from around the world began singing the praise of this remarkable little amplifier. The Sonneteer Campion was creating it's own tsunami in the world of amplifiers, it was causing quite a scare to the big boys that this small, new, and young outfit could produce such mature sounding amplifier at the very first attempt, how on earth were the boys from Sonneteer going to be able to better it?
Sonneteer Alabaster......and it was good, take a look here
Sonneteer Bronte.....worlds first digital amplifier
The Sonneteer Brontë digital amplifier is the first affordable, high end consumer amplifier to employ class T digital technology. Digital means that you get more power from a small box and a lot less heat while improving on reliability. This level of efficiency allows most of the energy that is normally wasted to heat in conventional class AB amplifiers to be transferred to the loudspeakers. This also means that the Brontë is suited to home install situations where heat is a problem due to stacking multiple amplifiers under the stairs for example.
The
Sonneteer Brontë was in it's day exceptionally
well received by the audio critics including an editors product of
the year from Gramophone magazine and Best
Buy of the Year 2005 Award from HiFi Review Magazine. Rave reviews
from countries as far apart as the Netherlands, Russia, Japan and
Thailand and also the British publication Hi-Fi+ ranted more than
positively about the amplifier.
Let us chalk up yet again another success story for Sonneter who clearly by now had proved their point that when it came to designing top audiophile quality amplifiers they were on top of their game....but even more was to follow.
Please feel free to contact Eden Audio here in Spain to allow us to demostrate to you the superior sound quality the Sonneteer amplifier have to offer.