VTPH-2 Vacuum Tube Phono Preamplifier Owners Manual
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to hear. Expect to discover new joy
from every record in your collection.
At Herron Audio, our goal has al-
ways been to reproduce, as faithfully
as possible, the musical experience
captured on each of your cherished
recordings. Nothing removed, and—
equally important— nothing added.
Meticulous design, painstaking
selection of component parts, and
the evolution of our experience help
us get closer to that target with each
new model.
This product is engineered to be user
friendly and overcomes the fears
that many have expressed concern-
ing the use of vacuum tubes in their
systems. Its limited production
ensures that the components in each
unit are matched to the highest stan-
dards in the industry. Manufacturing
of the unit is performed under the
tightest of quality controls. Compo-
nents are hand-matched to exacting
standards to ensure identical unit-
to-unit performance. For example,
capacitors in the RIAA equalization
stage are hand matched to tolerances
of better than 0.1%. The units are
burned in, bench tested, and hand-
matched to the original design.
Thank you for your investment in
the Herron Audio Vacuum Tube
Phono Preamplifier, a masterpiece of
high-precision analog audio playback
equipment. It is designed to be the
finest product of its type available.
The care in engineering and manu-
facturing of this product anticipates
a lifetime of musical enjoyment.
The Herron VTPH-2 Phono
Preamplifier was created to address
the retrieval of musical information
from vinyl LPs without compromise.
The original design (the VTPH-1)
was originally only intended for use
by a few dedicated music lovers in
their cutting edge audio systems.
The design was so good and demand
so high that the unit was refined
and engineered with the additional
features and performance enhance-
ments which are incorporated in the
VTPH-2. In the process, important
discoveries were made about toler-
ances and the threshold of human
hearing limits.
The VTPH-2 is a significant step for-
ward in the art and science of phono
preamplification. Its dynamics and
startling transparency may be dif-
ficult to describe, but are not difficult
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