Cayin will debut a new Headphone/Speaker Amplifier at Munich High End 2024. The Soul 170HA, as the name implies, is part of our Soul amplifier series, and it will use the KT170 vacuum tube as the power output tube.
While Headfiers probably are unfamiliar with the Tungsol KT170 vacuum tube, it was one of the biggest news in the HiFi vacuum tube community in the past 5 years. Due to the success of the KT120 and KT150 tubes and the popularity of these tubes with High-End Audio manufacturers, Tung-Sol announced the KT170 tube to provide a beam tetrode with even more power and higher specification in November 2020. Cayin was honored to work with Tung-Sol and became one of their off-site test center during the development stage, and we gained first-hand experience with the KT170 before the official announcement. We debuted our first all-new designed KT170 integrated amplifier in a domestic HiFi show back in May 2021, and
introduced the Soul 170i integrated speaker amplifier, and rolled out the Soul 170i integrated amplifier with 4xKT170 later that year. At our 30th anniversary, we have introduced the Pearl 30i, with 8x KT170, as the benchmark amplifier for our 30 years of track record in vacuum tube audio.
The Soul 170HA is the first-ever Headphone amplifier designed around the KT170 vacuum tube, we know this is going to be a big hit to the Personal Audio community so we have kept this amplifier away from press radar, which is not an easy task since we have a lot of press visitation during the 30th anniversary month. We will ship out the final Engineering prototype to the Munich High-End (9-12, May 2024) later this week, after we complete the photo shoot. The Soul 170HA will be a huge integrated amplifier even by speaker amplifier standard, it will be priced above the HA-300MK2. I don't have a lot to share at this point, for obvious reasons but we shall provide more details and product photos on 9th May, right before the Munich Show.
If you are interested in finding out more about Cayin's KT170 amplifiers while you are waiting, please check out the Soul 170i YouTube review by Thomas, a renowned audio reviewer of The Absolute Sound and HiFi+.
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