There is nothing like an excellent tube amplifier. A Copland amplifier that simultaneously offers a midrange that is open and clear, highs with unconstrained mobility and acceleration, and a deep, tight and free-flowing bass reproduction.

The Copland CTA408 Integrated Amplifier is intended for those who prefer the ease of a single chassis amplification but still want the performance of separates. It offers such amenities as separate MC and MM phono inputs, Monitoring in/outputs, a Headphone amplifier and a startup procedure that vastly prolongs the tube life.

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During the last decades, technological advances have offered new possibilities for circuit optimization, using components and technology mainly unavailable for the previous designers of tube amplifiers.

Inside the Copland, CTA408 is one of the most carefully conceived tube amplification engines available.

* Driver stage tubes supported by MOSFET circuitry.*

* Numerous individual power supplies are designed to operate with constant power, thereby isolating power stage fluctuations from entering the input stages and eliminating reverse modulation towards the AC supply grid.

* Dedicated Class A headphone amplifier (speaker output mutes on headphone insertion)

* Excellent J-FET- Phono-amplifier. Active RIAA equalization employs more than one hundred discrete components inside a noise-shielding box of its own.

* The output transformers are Copland in-house design, fine-tuned for optimal power bandwidth. The massive core size of the transformers prevents core saturation, and they can transfer full power well below 20Hz to the loudspeakers with a minimum of phase shift. Multiple layers of interleaving wires ensure superb linearity.

* The extended high-frequency performance reduces the requirements for internal lag compensation after the amplifier’s 15dB negative feedback loop is closed.

* The amplifier power plant is based on the KT150 power valves. These valves are the latest variant of the legendary 6550/KT88 power valves. In the CTA408, they surely demonstrate that the everlasting sound qualities of tubes can be extended into regions nowadays dominated by solid stage designs.c408_back
The huge power tubes are very pleasing to look, and therefore, we have decided to make them visible behind lateral perforations on the front panel, thus creating a stunning design to match the sonic virtues of this amplifier.

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4 reviews for Copland CTA408 integrated valve amplifier 2x75W

• “Copland is a Danish-based audio company founded by Ole Møller in the mid-eighties. It builds products that use valves in its pre and power stages, but in combination with modern design practise in terms of circuits, layouts and materials.”

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• “Copland began in the 1980s and soon became widely known, with its reputation skyrocketing over the next decade thanks to its affordable high-end devices such as the integrated CTA 501 amplifier and the CDplayer CDA 288.”

  Tech Week review                                                                                                                                                                                  “The CTA408 offers MC and MM phono inputs, monitoring in/outputs, headphone amplifier and a startup procedure that “…vastly prolongs the valve life,” said the company”.                                                                                                                                                  The Audiophile Man review                                                                                                                                                                                                        “It spread the piano sound acrossthe room – wow”                                                                                                              AudioMagic_Copland_CTA-408_HIFINEWS_review.pdf

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