High-End Analog Audio
We design analog audio components to enhance your listening pleasure.
After over 40 years as a Design Engineer, Audiophile and designer of the ARP 2600 Synthesizer
Dennis Colin has brought some of his inventions to market.
Groove Master Phono Preamp
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(Master Line Product*)
To view some current and hard-to-find interesting articles by Mr. Colin, please visit the White Papers section. Mr. Colin is a frequent contributor to audioxpress (a magazine for audiophiles).
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Design Philosophy
Many audio components are designed to have a characteristic “sound”, such as “warm”, “mellow”, “tube like”, etc. Sometimes this can compensate deficiencies in other system components, “dryness” in source material, or simply appeal to one’ s tastes. Sometimes this leads to, for example a euphonically (pleasant sounding) colored tube amp being called an “expensive tone control”! But unfortunately, this practice leads to the need for selecting mutually “compatible “components, e.g., a “soft” preamp to compensate a “bright speaker”. At Colin Electronics, we believe that all audio
components should be as neutral (faithful to the input signal, be that good or bad) as possible. Correcting deficiencies is best served by the use of tone controls, equalizers, etc. While these have fallen out of favor, you should realize that many recordings have emphasized tonal frequency ranges due to the interminable “need” felt by record producers to maximize loudness and “produce” a sound. This is true of most popular music, and even some classical.
In addition, if you select a component because it has some sonic “signature” that compensates your present system’s (or recordings’) problems, then you’re stuck with that “signature”. When you upgrade other
components or obtain newer recordings, that “compensatory” component might not sound so good!
Therefore, our policy is to honor the original meaning of High Fidelity; that is, to design components whose output signal ( and therefore sound) replicates the input source as closely as possible for an amplifying component ( as opposed to a loudspeaker with present technology) to produce no audible difference, if the component is properly used within its ratings.
* Colin Electronics Master Line
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