REX 500
The New King of Solid-State
Balanced Audio Technology (BAT) has a 25-year legacy of manufacturing fully balanced tube and solid-state power amplifiers, preamplifiers, and phono preamps that are sold in over 40 countries. Every BAT product is meticulously engineered to maintain the purity and natural beauty of the original signal and hand-built in our own factory in the US by a small team of dedicated craftsmen and technicians.
Whether you choose one of tube or solid-state designs, our goal is achieved using these core principles: fully balanced design is best, dual-mono construction maximizes performance, zero global feedback achieves natural sound, and evaluate for real life performance. All you need to do is listen.
The New Romance of Solid State
VK80i
Pure Triode Tube Integrated Amplifier
VK-85
Solid-State Flagship w/ Gen 4 SuperPak
VK-P90
BAT’s Best-Ever Phono Preamplifier
How it all started…
Victor Khomenko
Steve Bednarski
One day, Steve came to me and told me he’d bought a preamplifier that featured something very unusual; a balanced circuit. My immediate response was,
“That’s the only right way to build a circuit.”
-Victor Khomenko, BAT co-founder and Chief Engineer
Fully Balanced Design
There’s a reason professionals use balanced in studios and live performances. Fully balanced audio circuitry offers significant benefits in audio performance, characterized by improved signal integrity, reduced noise, and enhanced channel separation. By utilizing both positive and negative phases of the audio signal throughout the entire signal path, common-mode noise and interference are effectively canceled out, resulting in a cleaner, more accurate reproduction of the audio. This approach provides a lower noise floor, revealing finer details in the music, while also creating a wider soundstage and more precise imaging. Additionally, fully balanced circuitry allows for higher signal handling capabilities, and increased dynamic range, making it highly desirable for achieving a faithful and immersive listening experience.
Dual-mono power supplies
The benefit of dual mono power supplies in an audio component is the enhanced power delivery and improved channel separation. With dual mono configuration, each channel (left and right) has its dedicated power supply, ensuring a clean and isolated power feed. This eliminates potential interference or crosstalk between channels, resulting in improved clarity, imaging, and soundstage. Dual mono power supplies provide a more accurate and precise reproduction of audio, allowing for a heightened listening experience with enhanced dynamics and separation of instruments and vocals. It is a sought-after feature in high-end audio components, delivering superior performance and fidelity to audiophiles and music enthusiasts.
Zero Global Feedback
Zero global feedback, also known as zero negative feedback, minimizes or eliminates the use of global feedback loops. By avoiding the feedback of the output signal to the input stage, zero global feedback designs aim to preserve the natural characteristics of the audio signal, resulting in improved sound quality, transparency, and tonal balance. This approach enhances the overall realism, dynamics, and detail in audio playback, while also providing a wider soundstage, better imaging, and reduced transient intermodulation distortion. Despite requiring meticulous engineering and craftsmanship, zero global feedback designs offer a more engaging and faithful listening experience.
All you need to do is listen.
Measurements are an important tool but great measurements are not the primary objective. Many products chase paper performance, or great measurements, and they end up with analytical lifeless sound. BAT strives for real life performance and designs using measurements and listening.
BAT creates circuits that are naturally predisposed to be powerful, natural, and freebreathing. We use the best parts for the job, selected after hundreds of hours of listening to reproduce the natural beauty of the original signal.
REX 3
THE KING OF TUBE AMPLIFIERS.
REX 3 Dual Chassis SuperTube Preamplifier.
