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Detail of the Current Conveyor Technology
Unique fully analog regenerative power
technology:
While
audio is life , the Power supply is water , Pure water create
the wonderful life ,clean power supply reproduce the
beautiful sound .
The regenerative power supply like a
proprietary electric generator built in the unit.
It can block most
disturb from the power line , supply the ultra clean power supply for
the audio amps , reproduce the most neutral and analog sound
like audio signal for the system and the users.
In the
regenerative power supply design, the AC power through the
regenerative input transformer
, conversion to DC power ,through the class A PSUs power supply
for the regenerative wave generator and driver stages .
A balance regenerative regular wave
generator produce the ultra low distortion 50Hz wave ,through the
balance gain amps and the strong output stages ,
drive the regenerative transformers produce the clean AC power
supply feed to the separate class A PSUs power supply for the L and R
channel preamps .
The class A
parallel connection PSU has very high input impedance to avoid
disturb through the PSU from affecting the signal parts and low
output impedance with very fast speed and high linear, it
is a very clean power supply.
Audio-gd
on the regenerative power supply design points :
1,
Through analyzed the AP SYS-2722 , full analog design of the
regular wave generator have much lower distortion than the
digital generator.
2,
Digital drive stages have higher efficiency , but full analog
drive stages have much better analog sound like .
3, 400Hz regenerative wave have higher efficiency , 50Hz
regenerative wave had much far away the human ears sensitivity
area than the 400Hz, boost the sound have much better analog
sound like.
Unique real non-feedback ACSS headamp/preamp
technology:
HE-9 MK3 built in a true balanced design
applying the newest ACSS design . It seems complex , but in fact they are
the most simple design the world has ever had , their a lot
components to process the power supply. The HE-9 MK3 built in amp only has a
single " voltage" gain stage to process signals, but works in ACSS mode
so in fact it is a current gain stage instead of voltage gain stage,
whereas normal OPA chips already include two or three voltage gain
stages. The simplest and shortest signal journey brings out the most
neutral and least colored sound.
HE-9 MK3 applies ultra-low distortion
single stage ACSS amplifier and soldered directly on the motherboard .
The gain stages and the diamond cross output stage working on
pure class A state.
The ACSS is
a non-feedback
technology made with fully discrete amplifiers. Most people know the
global
feedback design can offer better specs in test measurements, and
non-feedback can't do well in test measurements but can offer better
sound for the human's ears. Here is a conflict of the classic circuits.
But the ACSS opens a new field, it can offer a least coloration sound
which is more neutral with very low distortion and high linearity. So
it can retain the dynamics, detail and neutral sound but not sound
bright or harsh.
All signal gain is in current, achieved
by the unique, superb open-loop multiple output current mirror.
Incomparably precise and ultra-low distortion in the gain signal is the
result. The signal path is balanced throughout and all transistors work
in class A mode.
HE-9 MK3 applies
four channels of non-feedback output stages composed of
8 pieces of transistors, every piece has
15A/150W performance. The
capacitance of the whole machine reaches as high as 60,000uF.
Four R-core transformers are used with
total power of 260W.
Unique I/V
conversion volume control technology:
The volume control is also different from conventional
technology. Conventional volume control technology is
the volume control implement in the analog amp
input stage through a volume pot to reduce the signal . The
volume pots quality effect the sound quality direct , the low
quality volume pot cause lost the detail and channels imbalance
cause the soundstage distortion . Even the high
performance volume pot ,in the attenuation then gain the signal
mode ,still cause the detail lose and cause the S/N worst .
In
the HE-9 MK3, we applied the I/V conversion volume control ,
the volume control just a
variable passive I/V conversion place at the ACSS amp output ,
where the output is the current signal, not the voltage signal. The
volume control is I/V conversion, and the volume depends on the
current (I) conversion to the voltage (V). (Like R-2R D/A chips
output passive I/V conversion)
It can keep the signal frequency band flat and
not lost any detail.
It can't degrade on sound
quality in every volume level . After the volume , there are
diamond cross output stage offer the
very low output impedance .
The volume
control quality is much important in the real balance gear . It must guarantee the
four channels signal control exact to achieve the performance of the
real balance gear . If the cool and hot of the balance signal
can't guarantee exact, the balance output will has large distortion
cause the sound quality and performance even much worst than a
single end gear , waste the balance gear design and the cost.
In HE-9 MK3
is applied a four channels digital control relays based volume
control, through changing the
tolerance 0.05% resistors to control the volume for avoid channels
imbalanced ,achieve the best performance and sound quality of
the gear.
HE-9 MK3 have 100
steps volume control, applied Supper Exponential Volume
Characteristic, easy match the volume with different power amp
and speaker .While change the volume, the different relays break or
close, it may had slightly switch sound on output and disappear
while stop change the volume.
Supper Exponential volume characteristic The Volume steps comparison to normal volume knob
Shield:
HE-9 MK3 has complete separation of left, right
amplifier channels, regenerative drivers and transformer, even the 230V / 120V
power input lines had shield in the two thick aluminum boards .
HE-9 MK3 uses heavyweight all-aluminum chassis to prevent the
eddy current of transformers from interfering on circuit board.
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