Elliott Studio Arts products are designed for the ‘real-world’ music lover and are a high value in performance and no-nonsense engineering, built to give many years of musical satisfaction and add fun to your listening experience. Our Series Sixty-Six vacuum tube amps and preamps will satisfy the audiophile and thrill the music lover with their attractive styling and wonderful sound, breathing life into your favorite recordings with a solid foundation that propels the music forward along with detailed transparency to the source. You'll hear the texture of drum skins, the shimmer of cymbals, fingers moving past the frets and harmonics on guitar strings, the bite of brass and the silky texture of woodwinds. You'll hear more than you knew was there on your favorite recordings, but more than that, you'll hear music as it should be heard, with rhythmic drive and swing. After all, listening should be enjoyable, not analytical.
In today's economy you want to buy something of value, something that will last, something you will be happy with for the long term. Our products are designed and built here in the USA, by hand, to the tightest tolerances. We keep our costs low by direct sales and building per order . You get an expertly engineered and constructed product that performs like it cost many times more.
Why tubes?
Vacuum tube audio components can add a life to music that only the most expensive solid-state gear can match. Tube amps typically sound louder, more dynamic, dimensional and transparent than a solid-state amp of the same rated output power. Tube amps have higher levels of distortion and don’t measure as well as solid-state; most solid state designs depend on large amounts of negative feedback to get that low distortion. High levels of feedback can kill the natural warmth and sterilize the music. Tube circuits generally overload more gracefully with lower-order harmonics so that less negative feedback is necessary for a warmer, more liquid sound. Tubes circuits are lightning fast and because there's fewer active elements the signal has to pass through there's less sonic degradation. Consider the typical tube power amp which has 3 to 4 active devices per channel, compared to a typical solid state amp which may have many times more. You may find that you can listen longer and at subjectively louder levels with tubes, as there’s less listener fatigue. So join the thousands of music lovers, musicians and discriminating audiophiles who rely on tubes to deliver the most satisfying sound.