The Conrad Johnson Premier Twelve | Music

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Conrad Johnson's headquaters are in Virginia and they are a name synonomous with high quality audio. CJ was the brainchild of Doctors' Lewis Johnson and William Conrad and was incorporated in 1977. The first amplifier that they produced was a vacuum tube preamplifier named the PV-1.

Conrad Johnson is undoubtedly a brand of high quality and their amplifier prices reflect this. Despite that, many audio enthusiast feel the money is an excellent investment. The Conrad Johnson Twelve Tube monoblock amplifier is one of the company's premier products and to hear your tunes in stero you'll need two, so what do you get for your seven thousand dollars?

Well design wise beyond the fantastic brand name you get a sleek brushed brass style amplifier, quite straight forward circuitry with a big output transformer, which according to the specs give high phase linearity and a wide bandwidth. Basically, nothing too out of the ordinary. The success of this amplifier is really down to performance more than design.

So what of the performance? Well this Conrad Johnson overall sound is very rich and open with a lush transparency, excellent mids and a deep punch like bass and an excellence at high frequencies. It completes the transitions between frequency extremes perfectly through the mid and upper ranges, which are often very difficult.

Tube amplifiers quite often have diffiulculties when it comes to transients, especially with rock and pop songs. The Twelve Tube handles these with ease with a focused and coherent sound throughout, being perhaps the finest I have heard in years.

The Twelve Tube is also not plagued with the reliability problems of many other tube amplifiers. It's another thing that really defines Conrad Johnson as an amplifier manufacturer. It's a tough cookie and very rugged which will certainly give you all confidence in a purchase.

So the Twelve Tube really does deliver, and the internet is an excellent place to start a search for these amplifiers. Just spend a bit of time and have a look around.

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