Electrocompaniet AW100DMB User Manual
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Welcome to the world of Electrocompaniet
We sincerely thank you for selecting an amplifier from Electrocompaniet. We hope
you will enjoy years of listening pleasure and true high end musical performance
from your audio system. Kindly read this owners manual to familiarise yourself with
the set before operation.
The Electrocompaniet Story
Electrocompaniet was founded in 1973 in Oslo, Norway; to manufacture an amplifier
designed by Per Abrahamsen. The design were based upon a new approach to
transistor amplifier design developed by Dr. Matti Otala and Jan Lohstro.
It had long been recognised that transistor amplifiers had a characteristic sound that
many audiophiles and music lovers found unnatural.
Dr. Otala and Mr. Lohstro analysed transistor amplifiers to determine what actually
created the “transistor sound” in general transistorised designs. The results of their
innovative design work were incorporated in the first Electrocompaniet design, the
legendary 25 watt amplifier.
This product were the first commercial transistor amplifier to use this new design
approach, and the amplifier was immediately recognised as dramatically more musi-
cal sounding than any other transistor amplifier. The same design philosophy, has
been constantly updated by additional research and development. This philosophy
forms the basis of all the current Electrocompaniet Ampliwire and Preampliwire Dual
Mono Balanced designs.
Electrocompaniet have always given extensive listening test of all it’s designs the
highest priority. Every product designed by our engineers must meet the varied and
exacting standards of the listening panel, carefully selected to represent a cross
section of musical taste and experience. Electrocompaniet designs go back and
forth between the design laboratory and the listening panel until both engineers and
listeners are completely satisfied, and ensured that the design has met it’s technical
and sonic objectives.
All Electrocompaniet products are handmade by highly skilled technicians, and
extensively tested for maximum performance and reliability.
Final adjustments are made only after an extended period of operation to insure the
best possible performance under conditions similar to those of actual use.
Electrocompaniet Ampliwire and Preampliwire are sold in more than 25 countries,
providing the ultimate listening pleasure to dedicated music lovers world-wide.