{"id":124872,"date":"2024-04-24T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=124872"},"modified":"2024-04-25T03:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T03:14:22","slug":"jadis-i-70-four-tetrode-integrated-amplifier-tung-sol-kt170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/jadis-i-70-four-tetrode-integrated-amplifier-tung-sol-kt170\/","title":{"rendered":"Jadis I-70: Four-tetrode integrated amplifier Tung-Sol KT170"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned manufacturer of exclusive tube technology, the French company\u00a0<b>Jadis<\/b>\u00a0, has expanded its line of integrated amplifiers with the\u00a0<b>I-70<\/b> model . A distinctive feature of the amplifier was the construction of output amplification stages based on completely fresh <b>KT170<\/b>\u00a0tetrodes\u00a0, developed by\u00a0<b>Tung-Sol<\/b>\u00a0specifically for high-end tube amplifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The beam tetrode with a large pear-shaped bulb and an admissible power dissipation at the anode of 85 W turned out to be the most powerful lamp in the KT series.\u00a0The push-pull output stage of each channel is based on two of these tubes and operates in ultra-linear mode with automatic bias in pure class A, delivering 60 watts per channel.\u00a0The amplifier has a dual mono concept.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jadis I-70 - four-tetrode integrated amplifier Tung-Sol KT170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/a85262eecee9af061d40067e565aa0d8.jpg\" alt=\"Jadis I-70 - four-tetrode integrated amplifier Tung-Sol KT170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The input stages of the amplifier are traditional &#8211; made on the\u00a0<b>ECC82<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>ECC83 triodes<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0The component is equipped with five line level unbalanced inputs on high quality gold plated\u00a0<b>RCA<\/b>\u00a0connectors\u00a0.\u00a0Two pairs of deluxe speaker terminals for each channel allow for bivyering connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Jadis I-70<\/b>\u00a0implements separate power supply not only for channels, but also for different stages of one channel.\u00a0For this, separate secondary windings of a powerful power transformer are used.\u00a0The lamp filament voltage is stabilized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jadis I-70 - four-tetrode integrated amplifier Tung-Sol KT170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/8f4d02a3bdd41fc8fca5308b072f903b.jpg\" alt=\"Jadis I-70 - four-tetrode integrated amplifier Tung-Sol KT170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The amplifier comes with an elegant remote control.\u00a0In Europe, it can be purchased for <b>13,950 euros<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned manufacturer of exclusive tube technology, the French company\u00a0Jadis\u00a0, has expanded its line of integrated amplifiers with the\u00a0I-70 model . A distinctive feature of the amplifier was the construction of output amplification stages based on completely fresh KT170\u00a0tetrodes\u00a0, developed by\u00a0Tung-Sol\u00a0specifically for high-end tube amplifiers. The beam tetrode with a large pear-shaped bulb and an [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/jadis-i-70-four-tetrode-integrated-amplifier-tung-sol-kt170\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":190290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-124872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}