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VTL believes that a passion for music is a passion for life. Music expresses our being, in all of its individuality. Music creates our sense of “place.
VTL’s passion for music has brought forth a range of tubed audio components whose aim is to recreate the experience of live music in your home. Your music, your spirit.
The essence of VTL is the marriage of music and technology, expressed in elegant design, attention to detail, value, and reliability. Their goal is to make the experience of music and home theater come alive for you.
They were the first to recognize that high power is required for accurate reproduction of music in the home. VTL made the first very high powered amplifiers in continuous production, the de Luxe 500 in 1987 and the 1000 watt monoblock in 1990, followed by the MB-750 and Wotan MB-1250 in the mid 1990’s. Today their Siegfried Reference Monoblock Amplifier using their proprietary Auto Bias and Fault Sensing technology and a fully regulated power supply has captured the unique position as the first high power tube amplifier that uses an automatic control system to adjust the bias of the tubes and detect and report tube faults.
Since the beginning VTL has consistently made user friendliness a top design priority, to bring the beauty of tube amplifiers accessible to more equipment owners. With the introduction of the VTL proprietary Auto Bias and Fault Sensing system to their Signature and Reference amplifiers, VTL has made a bold step forward in bringing user friendliness to high performance vacuum tube amplifiers. This system encompasses logic-controlled automatic biasing which continually checks each tube for optimal performance, and an array of fault-sensing diagnostics that alert users to the operating status of each tube. This “smart tube” technology puts an end to the guesswork formerly inherent in large tube amplifiers, making this new generation VTL amplifiers much easier to use and maintain.
Many of the distinguishing design choices made in the early VTL days are still made in the latest VTL models. The VTL design philosophy – keep it simple, keep it compact – has proven to yield reliable and consistently well regarded products throughout the last two decades. The VTL philosophy translates to the following design criteria – use simple circuits, pay attention to detail, use high quality parts, and use the best tubes. Fewer parts, and less complex circuits yield the pure tube sound of VTL.
They believe that it takes extra muscle in the electronics for a room acoustic to approach the recreation of the live musical event. Most modern speakers fully develop their potential only when they are controlled with high-powered amplifiers
Music is complex, and they seek the musical purity that comes from a simple circuit path built with premium parts. They offer the full frequency response, so you get all the music with few electronic distortions.
Pure tube design, a short, simple circuit path; a big, well-regulated power supply, and a first-class, well-matched output transformer. Simplicity in design offers clean, pure sonic reproduction and ease of use for the listener.
All VTL products are designed for musical sound quality – with a proven track record of over 20 years in the home audio business and 20 years experience in the recording studio industry prior to that, VTL has a solid heritage of sound quality and reliability.
All of their amplifiers and preamplifiers, whether destined for your first system, your home theater, or the system of your mature, informed tastes, share the “VTL family sound” — vivid, clear, full, with a deep stage and substantial bass, “open and muscular”, as one reviewer expresses it. They are designed to fill your home with the music you love and live by.
VTL products are distributed through a network of factory trained professional dealers, who can demonstrate the extraordinary musical reality of these products, provide complete installation of your system and assist you in maintaining performance of your VTL components for a lifetime of music enjoyment. VTL owners need never be concerned with the complexities of adjustment, as all of their components are designed to operate trouble-free after the initial professional installation, to ensure the listener relaxed pleasure for years. Their confidence in their product allows them to provide a long warranty on all of our products.
VTL’s devotion to music, the flexibility of a company structured to meet your needs, and the discipline and capacity to bring the best technology of the past to new levels of performance in the present and into the future – these are your guarantee of solid, reliable, timeless components that you can enjoy and rely upon for generations to come.
