Pass INT-30A Quick Manual

The Pass Laboratories INT-30A integrated amplifier doesn't do much, and

that's what makes it great!

I've probably reviewed well over a hundred amplifiers, but I can't say I've ever really

heard one. I'm always listening to an amplifier driving a speaker, so the sound is

really the combination of the two.

I'm pretty sure Nelson Pass has not only listened to more amps and speakers than I

have, he's designed more than a few of my favorite high-end amps.

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Page 1 The Pass Laboratories INT-30A integrated amplifier doesn't do much, and that's what makes it great! I've probably reviewed well over a hundred amplifiers, but I can't say I've ever really heard one. I'm always listening to an amplifier driving a speaker, so the sound is really the combination of the two.
Page 2 Pass is the founder and CEO of Pass Laboratories, but I first met him in the late 1970s when he was still with his first company, Threshold. Even then he was known for his amplifier designs, but he was hard at work developing an experimental speaker with a seemingly impossible design goal: no moving/vibrating parts! He dubbed it the "Ion Cloud"...
Page 3 INT-30A lacks Tape Outputs. I don't consider that a major oversight. I really liked the INT-30A's snazzy all-metal remote, first because it looks like it belongs with a high-end amp like the INT-30A, and because it's not one of those ridiculously heavy metal remotes.
Page 4 To finish up I put the INT-30A in my two-channel home theater with the Zu speakers. I've used the Black Hawk Down Blu-ray to test the dynamic stamina of many a home theater system, and even through the worst of the hellish gunfire exchanges, explosions and helicopter crash the INT-30A never cried uncle.