{"id":167446,"date":"2023-08-14T08:56:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=167446"},"modified":"2023-08-14T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:57:14","slug":"its-monday-and-musetec-has-launched-the-new-mh-sa001-preamplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/its-monday-and-musetec-has-launched-the-new-mh-sa001-preamplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s monday and Musetec has launched the new MH SA001 preamplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musetec\u00a0Audio\u00a0has released a new flagship analog preamp,\u00a0the MH SA001\u00a0, featuring completely separate left and right signal paths.\u00a0Moreover, the case is even physically divided into two parts inside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/88_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The preamplifier is fully\u00a0class A\u00a0, for which the company even developed its own volume control.\u00a0After trying all the options on the market, from resistive arrays to expensive film potentiometers, the engineers settled on their own solution.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/89_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The input signal is converted to current and then fed to a matrix of low resistance resistors.\u00a0The result is a 256-bar volume control in 0.25dB steps.\u00a0The manufacturer claims a bandwidth of -1 dB from 0.1 Hz to 200 kHz with distortion not higher than 0.00025%.\u00a0To connect signal sources, there are five inputs &#8211; three on RCA and two on XLR, two outputs &#8211; one pair of RCA and one pair of XLR.\u00a0Device dimensions &#8211;\u00a0430 x 380 x 122 mm\u00a0, weight &#8211;\u00a012.2 kg\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/90_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Musetec MH SA001\u00a0preamplifier\u00a0went on sale for\u00a0$5,499.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musetec\u00a0Audio\u00a0has released a new flagship analog preamp,\u00a0the MH SA001\u00a0, featuring completely separate left and right signal paths.\u00a0Moreover, the case is even physically divided into two parts inside. The preamplifier is fully\u00a0class A\u00a0, for which the company even developed its own volume control.\u00a0After trying all the options on the market, from resistive arrays to expensive film [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/its-monday-and-musetec-has-launched-the-new-mh-sa001-preamplifier\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":167451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-167446","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":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167446","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=167446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}