Van den Hul - The Grail

Designed to provide high-end audio, “The Grail” will deliver you outstanding sound quality with nearly every available modern cartridge.

Also available with a battery power-supply.

Featurelist:

- A specific designed Phono preamplifier section, unique in the world

- Phonograph RIAA – equalization with coils only, no sound impairing capacitors in filters

- Special printed circuit board material with gold conducting paths

- The printed circuit board has a special seating to evade microphonics

- Special equipment foot made of selected wood avoids mechanical energy storage

- Low noise moving coil input stage, no annoying noise even with low-output cartridges

- Automatic adapting input stage for moving coil cartridges, no matching resistors needed

- Possibility to compensate phonograph cartridge sensivity (level adjustment)

- Cut out of coupling capacitors in the signal path as far as possible

- Strictly separated amplifier sections and circuit layout deliver a very natural soundstage

- Inputs: two phono inputs, one for MC cartridges, one for MM or MC high-output

- A shielded transformer is placed in an external housing to avoid hum and EMI noise

- Power supply with Gyrators for each amplifier stage deliver very high noise cancellation

- The external transformer is available for different mains voltages