Special Design Features; Design Team Philosophy; Highly Refined Circuit Design - Classe Audio OMEGA - V1.1 Owner's Manual

Special Design Features

design team
All of our components benefit from the same rigorous design goal:
philosophy
All Classé products must reproduce music with the harmonic and spatial integ-
rity typical of fine instruments heard in a live, unamplified performance.
To this end, we make extensive use of carefully optimized versions of
the same basic circuit precisely matched to specific power require-
ments. This means that all Classé line level components and power am-
plifiers benefit from years of refinement. However, our efforts do not
stop here.
Once we determine general circuit values for a particular application,
we listen carefully while exchanging and mixing different parts (transis-
tors, capacitors, wiring, printed circuit boards, etc.) and adjusting specific
operating voltages within proper engineering ranges.
Every Classé component, even the most affordable, benefits from our
painstaking approach to design parameters. The result is an optimum
balance between the often-conflicting demands of exceptional perfor-
mance and long-term reliability. Our Omega components benefit from
even tighter tolerance parts and highly segmented and exceptionally ro-
bust power supplies with large reserve-current capabilities.
We build all of our components to the highest possible standards. From
multilayer glass-epoxy circuit boards, the full sized power-supplies, and
the massive faceplates, every Classé product is a tribute to both the sci-
ence and art of sound reproduction. We hope that you derive as much
pleasure and satisfaction in using your Classé as we did in producing it.
highly refined
All Classé analog amplification stages are based on circuits that have
circuit design
been extensively optimized over many years of continuous develop-
ment.
The unique Omega design utilizes 64 output devices in a special ar-
rangement designed to maintain internal rail voltage under the most
adverse conditions. The 64 output devices are divided evenly, with 32
being utilized to maintain rail voltage, and the other 32 utilized as out-
put power devices. The result of this unique design is an amplifier that
offers uncompromised performance.
By starting with excellent circuit designs and working with them over
the years, we were able to discover the many small refinements that add
up to superlative performance, in a variety of applications. Altering a
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