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Pathos Aurium Headphone Amplifier

Pathos Acoustics is an Italian manufacturer of premium high fidelity audio products. The company began in 1994 and was founded by three music enthusiasts; Gaetano Zanini , Gianni Borinato and Paolo Andriolo in the Italian city Vicenza. Vicenza is a sophisticated, northern Italian city, famous initially for monuments designed by prestigious architect Andrea Palladio. The city has since grown upon the classy and luxury themes set-out by Palladio and has since become renowned for innovative metal production, jewellery and fashion. 

This tradition of combining innovation and invention with design and quality has been embraced and evolved by Pathos. Pathos' design philosophy is to 'combine the past, present and future, making hifi jewellery - small monuments. Highly advanced technological mechanics and uncompromising aesthetic result in a truly astounding hifi product, complete with the elegance and class that one would expect from a product designed and engineered in Italy.

Premium quality headphones need an equally superior source and amplification in order to perform to their absolute best. Pathos respect and understand this, and through the medium of their Aurium headphone amplifier aim to offer the most superlative, dynamic and engaging listening experience possible. Pure class A, valve pre-stage and MOSFET power stage, alongside zero feedback and high precision Burr-Brown volume control results in the level of sound you would expect from Pathos; exquisite musicality, transparency, dynamics and total lack of listening fatigue.

  •  Output power 3,6W @ 16 Ohm, 
  • Class A zero feedback 
  •  Output Inpedance < 0,5 Ohm
  •  Output level 7V RMS max
  •   Frequency response         10Hz - 80KHz
  • THD < 0,1 % 
  • Analogue Inputs 1 stereo balanced XLR
  • 3 stereo unbalanced RCA line
  • Analogue Outputs 1 - XRL TAPE
  • 1 - RCA line TAPE
  • Max Input Level 6,4 V RMS unbalanced
  • 3,2+3,2 V RMS balance
  • Main voltage 90-250 V 50 / 60 Hz  
  •  Power consumption 30 W
  • Dimensions   200 x 230 x 60 mm 
  • Weight 3Kg