Audio Analogue Extends Anniversary Series

by Roy Gregory | June 10, 2019

hen Audio Analogue turned twenty in 2016, the company celebrated with anniversary versions of the popular Puccini and Maestro integrated amplifiers. Those models have now been joined by a preamp/power amp pairing, the Bellini Anniversary and Donizetti Anniversary priced at €5500 and €9500, respectively (including 20% sales tax). Although the names will be familiar to Audio Analogue fans, these models are entirely new designs, employing the company’s latest thinking and technology. Both are solid-state, fully differential, zero-global-feedback designs, built around Audio Analogue’s SeGeSTA (single gain-stage transconductance amplifier) topology, continuing the commitment to low-noise audio performance that has always underpinned the company's products.

The Bellini Anniversary preamp offers two sets of balanced XLR inputs and three on single-ended RCAs, with two sets of both balanced and single-ended outputs. The volume control is a discrete resistor ladder, and the heavy-duty aluminum remote completes the facilities. Not surprisingly, the new Donizetti Anniversary power amp offers even fewer facilities, although its paper performance is pretty impressive. Equipped with both balanced and single-ended inputs, it delivers a rated output of 250Wpc into 8 ohms, 500Wpc into 4 ohms and 950Wpc into a 2-ohm load. With the amp in bridged mono, the power output increases to 1000, 1700 and 2200Wpc, respectively. The anniversary versions of the Bellini and Donizetti are built using what the company describes as carefully selected, audiophile- and military-grade components and offer the elegant aesthetics that have long been an Audio Analogue signature.