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Please read this entire manual before you connect the L-8000 DHT Line- Stage Preamplifier to the other components of your system and the wall outlet.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTRODUCING THE L-8000 DHT LINE-STAGE PREAMPLIFIER WHAT’S IN THE BOX? SAFETY CLEANING Chassis Connectors INITIAL SET-UP Location, Location, Location Power Connection Inputs Outputs Remote Control INITIAL POWER ON OPERATION TUBES SPECIFICATIONS WARRANTY FIGURES Please read about SAFETY before you attempt to use the M-3000 MK II -...
INTRODUCING THE L-8000 DHT PREAMPLIFIER Allnic Audio and the Direct Heated Triode Breakthrough In the early years of the last century, the directly heated triode was invented independently, and almost simultaneously, in the USA and Austria. This simple device, an anode, cathode and a grid in a vacuum contained in a glass bottle, transformed the world.
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Like the Allnic L-7000, which is an indirectly heated triode preamplifier, the L- 8000 has a noise floor that is effectively absent. The Allnic L-8000 DHT preamplifier is the improved successor to the L-5000 DHT, which was THE WORLD’S FIRST COMMERCIALLY PRODUCED, PURE DHT PREAMPLIFIER.
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Allnic Audio manufactures its own transformers and uses what it views to be the best core material, Permalloy. Allnic Audio's unprecedented, wide (16Hz ~ 75kHz, -3db), low distortional, and ultra-flexible (up to 50kHz square wave response) output transformer helps Allnic Audio to realize the ideal transformer coupled preamplifier.
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Low output impedance is critical to the design of a good preamplifier. The L-8000 DHT has a 120 ohm (120Ω) constant output impedance at all frequencies. In capacitor coupling (C-R coupling), a “cathode follower circuit" is usually used to lower output impedance.
We advise that you keep the box and other packing materials that your L-8000 DHT came in. It will be useful if you sell your L-8000 DHT or in the unlikely event you need to ship it for service. SAFETY CAREFULLY and SLOWLY remove ALL cardboard and Styrofoam cushioning material inside •...
INITIAL SET-UP LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION Like all audio products using tubes, the Allnic Audio L-8000 DHT needs to be placed on a solid stand in a location that provides for good air circulation around the preamplifier. DO NOT cover the top of the preamplifier.
NO PHONO STAGE - The L-8000 DHT is a line stage preamplifier and does NOT have a built in phono preamplifier section. You will need a phono preamplifier if you want to use a turntable with the L-8000 DHT.
Push the power on-off switch to the left of the IEC connector (facing the left side of the unit as in Figure 1) so it is in the “on position”. That will power up the L-8000 DHT. From this point on, you need only use the far left hand button marked “power”...
“on” position – this will keep key circuitry warm, and your L-8000 DHT will be ready to play when the soft-start turns on the L-8000 DHT next time you want to listen. Turn off your sources last.
L-8000, any of its parts, or tubes or replacement tubes resulting from the user changing or attempting to change tubes. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE ALLNIC AUDIO L-8000 DHT LINE STAGE PREAMPLIFIER Line level × 5 pairs (Balanced × 2, Unbalanced (RCA) × 3) Inputs: •...
Date of purchase is the date indicated on the invoice for the product issued by Allnic Audio or its authorized representative. For the warranty to be valid, a defective product must be returned to Allnic Audio’s authorized representative for service prior to any unauthorized attempt to repair.
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