Japanese high-end audio brand TAD Labs is adding to its current Reference Series of hi-fi products. The new TAD-C700 preamplifier – to be showcased at next month's High End Munich show – teases a host of technical refinements which, says the manufacturer, will allow the latest model to reach a new level of performance over 2011's outgoing TAD-C600.
Central to this new level of performance is the preamp's single-stage amplifier circuitry. According to TAD, the minimal use of amplifying elements lets the C700 reproduce "every musical nuance faithfully", while a dedicated amp circuit for each line output aims to stop signal branching and unwanted interference from connected components. The C700 uses fully balanced circuitry throughout which, along with the symmetrical dual-mono construction, aims to deliver identical amplification to left and right channels – this should result in "near-perfect stereophonic sound reproduction", says TAD.
