Audio Note Kassai - Manual

MANUAL-ZX158
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Congratulations and thank you for your purchase of the Audio Note™ Kassai
mono power amplifiers. The Kassai is a Pure Class A Parallel Singled Ended valve
amplifier that uses the highly regarded 300B directly heated triode valve. The
Kassai produces a level of performance that is radically superior to current
designs and was specifically designed for sonic performance rather than technical
specifications. It also fulfills all Level 4 criteria.
- Pure Class A operation
- Zero negative feedback
- Single ended output stage
- Valve rectification
- Directly heated Triode
- Materials and component quality
This Level 4 amplifier has the following features: Audio Note™ silver wiring,
Audio Note™ copper foil signal capacitors, silver wound secondary on the output
transformer and 1 W Tantalum resistors.
UNPACKING AND INSTALLATION
These amplifiers are shipped without the valves installed. It is
necessary to install the valves first. It is essential that the valves are
installed correctly or serious damage that is not covered by the
warranty will result . We recommend that your dealer does this for you.
Installing the valves
Please take care when unpacking the amplifiers as they are fairly heavy and
place on a suitable clean space (table or floor) it is recommend that you store
the packaging materials in case the unit requires shipping at a later date.
Carefully unwrap all the valves. You will find 1x 6SN7WGTA, 2 x 300B and 1x
5U4G valves for each amplifier.
Looking from the front of the amplifier, the first valve to insert is the 6SN7WGTA
valve which goes into the first valve base at the front of the amplifier.
Inspect the locating pin on the bottom center of the valve and align with the
valve base (the locating pin can only go in one way round due to a locating
spigot) and with gentle but firm pressure insert the valve. Please see diagram 1.