{"id":145500,"date":"2022-05-27T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=145500"},"modified":"2022-05-27T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:53:32","slug":"chord-electronics-ultima-pre-3-preamplifier-with-balanced-circuitry-in-symmetrical-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/chord-electronics-ultima-pre-3-preamplifier-with-balanced-circuitry-in-symmetrical-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Chord Electronics Ultima Pre 3: Preamplifier with balanced circuitry in symmetrical design"},"content":{"rendered":"

The analog preamplifier Chord Electronics Ultima Pre 3 is\u00a0suitable , first of all, for the company’s power amplifiers – stereo Ultima 5 and Ultima 6 or Ultima 2 and Ultima 3 monoblocks. However, not only these models will work with the preamp: Ultima Pre 3 is quite universal, on board – both balanced and unbalanced outputs, there is a 12V trigger and an IEC power input.<\/p>\n

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For signal sources, five analog inputs are provided – two balanced and three unbalanced, as well as a separate AV Bypass.\u00a0The novelty provided a USB Type-A 5 V \/ 3 A power output for peripheral devices, primarily, of course, branded Chord Electronics,\u00a0Qutest\u00a0and Hugo 2 DACs.<\/p>\n

Chord Electronics talks about the completely new design of Ultima Pre 3, both outside and inside, about “development from scratch” – this is on the one hand.\u00a0And on the other – about using the company’s 30 years of experience, up to the concept of the founder and owner of Chord, John Franks (John Franks).<\/p>\n

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The result is a fully balanced system with increased “purity” power supply.\u00a0All inputs are individually buffered and provided with selective RFI filtering.\u00a0Switching control is microprocessor-based, and the switching itself is implemented on hermetic relays.<\/p>\n

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All this is packaged in a symmetrical case made of solid aircraft-grade aluminum on branded Integra feet, just like in the previous model, Ultima Pre 2. In the center of the symmetrical front panel is a round indicator, as if surrounded by an encoder of a combined volume control based on a Blue Velvet ALPS potentiometer .<\/p>\n

Above is a perforated grill for ventilation, decorated with adjustable LED lighting.\u00a0The novelty is available in Jett black or silver Argent.<\/p>\n

In the US, the Chord Electronics Ultima Pre 3<\/a> is priced at approximately $7,400.<\/p>\n

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The analog preamplifier Chord Electronics Ultima Pre 3 is\u00a0suitable , first of all, for the company’s power amplifiers – stereo Ultima 5 and Ultima 6 or Ultima 2 and Ultima 3 monoblocks. However, not only these models will work with the preamp: Ultima Pre 3 is quite universal, on board – both balanced and unbalanced […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":145505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-145500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}