Renaissance Amplification comes to Custom Electronic Design!

Renaissance Amplification
Renaissance Unity 100

Designed and manufactured by Integrated Engineering Solutions of Southampton, Renaissance Amplification arrives at Egham. The design of their Amplifiers, CD transport, DAC and MC Phono Pre are based on succesful music 're-performance' and a rare 'simple but correct engineering' philosophy.

Renaissance hifi has been very well received throughout the industry, well reviewed in various HiFi press and often seen (and heard!) at the UK's leading HiFi shows.

September 09 sees the launch of the the new Unity 100 Stereo Power Amplifier. The solidly-built but compact UNITY 100 is engineered to combine power with grace. As a result, this remarkably capable amplifier conveys musical performances a very naturalsounding way. Convincing and involving playback is delivered with even the most demanding loudspeaker loads. Multi-transistor class AB design with no overall feedback. Regulated supplies for input and driver stages. Unusual high-current, high accuracy “pure unity buffer” output stage. All aluminium construction with ½ inch thick anodised aluminium front panel. Enormous reserves of power from 780VA toroidal transformer.

Mini Renaissance Review:
I first heard the RP-01 Moving Coil phono stage in 2008, fed by a Dynavector DV17D3 cartridge, mounted on a modest Rega P3. This was the first time i've ever heard vinyl properly at home! The musicality pounced upon my £3k CD player, it may not have been as clean and detailed as CD - afterall the record player was only £350, but this was irrelevant, dynamics and 'life' came through the speakers. These Renaissance guys know what they're doing.

Right now we have a full Renaissance system running at Custom Electronic Design, even cold straight from the box earlier this week, the system was highly involving through Dynaudio C1 with modest Chord Co cabling. System and pricing is as follows:

Renaissance RP-01 Moving Coil Pre-Amplifier Stage £1995
Renaissance RT-01 CD Transport £2495
Renaissance RD-01 Digital to Analogue Convertor £1395
Renaissance RAP-02 Line Level Pre-Amplifier £745
Renaissance RA-02 Mosfet Mono Power Amplifier £1595 Per Pair

Please contact Custom Electronic Design for further info or an audition.
Also click here to see manufacturer's site,
http://www.highendaudio.co.uk/renaissance/index.htm

Wayne Hyde 9.10.09