Rotel A11 Tribute Amplifier ... Ken Ishiwata's last stand

Ken loved amplifiers. They are the engine of your Hi Fi system and there is nothing a true High Fidelity enthusiast loves more than an amplifier (except perhaps speakers ... and my record player).

The amplifier is the engine that drives your audio system and is its living beating heart. The perfect amplifier is one that adheres to the straight wire amplification rule wherein the amplified signal produced is perfectly identical to the input signal regardless of the transient load put upon it by the speakers ... amplifiers that get close to this can be very expensive luxury car type pricing.

Rotel know how to make an amp, for anyone who is a student of amplifier design in the same way that so many red blooded males are students of automobile engines looking at a Rotel amplifier with the cover off is an exercise of Hi Fi lust. When Ken Ishiwata looked at amplifiers he would pay very close attention to the quality of the passive components and would obsessively voice the product through a reference loudspeaker system.

In Carlton Audio Visual we are going to invite you to hear this through a pair of PMC loudspeakers ... not the cheapest brand by any means but revealing and musical and unique and this amp will just sail on through them with dimension space and scale for the music ... the veracity of a soundstage is very much the measure of a good amplifier.