Painting Beautiful

Colour!

 

"all kinds of acoustic instruments, solo or massed voices were treated with utmost care; the harmonic structure was always completely preserved"

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monoandstereo.com

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"Crayon Audio could become more than just an oddly named Austrian hifi house familiar only to the very few.

This is an amp a lot more people should hear!"

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6 Moons.com

In total control of music!

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"The Crayon CIA-1 reproduces music in a very refined way. A compact, energetic music machine would be a perfect description. It showed no preference for any particular genre and basically proved capable of handling all material, simple as well as highly complex - all this with aplomb."

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monoandstereo.com

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The CIA-1 T BLACK hardly differs from the CIA-1, at least on the outside – apart from the bigger heatsink, WBT loudspeaker terminals and WBT RCA sockets.

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The CIA-1 T BLACK: Special on the inside

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The CIA-1 T BLACK features a more powerful power adaptor, thus enabling it to much higher output (2 x 180 Watts/4 Ohm), with wiring of 99.99% silver in combination with expensive high-end semiconductor components. Display and menu have been omitted in favor of LED indicators for channel and MM/MC switching.

The chosen channels are indicated by illuminated LED´s, which also show the on/off sequences. The LED labeled MC indicates Moving Coil (LED on) or Moving Magnet (LED off) operation.
The position of the Poti indicates the volume. Everything apart from volume and channel selection (and MC/MM switching) has been stripped. Channels can be selected using a touch key or the remote control. Volume is adjusted using a motor-potentiometer by ALPS.

Channel switching is done using CMOS-switches featuring circuit design found in professional studio equipment and ensures great stopband attenuation.