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Manley Stingray

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Ships fromTempe, NSW, 2044
Ships toUnited States
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This is an amazing sounding detailed, rich, soulful amplifier made by a company that knows all about valve studio gear. Rare and Beautiful this amp paired with the right speakers sings.

Owed since new, used carefully for about 2 years and then stored for years as i run powered studio monitors these days. it comes with the manual and I'll carefully pack and send so the tubes are super safe.

Separate left and right silver-contact select switches (for the four stereo line inputs) deliver your music into the premium NobleĀ® balance and volume controls before hitting the first 12AT7 input tubes. The advantages of a passive preamp driving an extremely short and low capacitance two inches of cable are well known: near-absolute transparency, no added noise, and extreme signal path simplicity. This is the perfect place to implement a passive preamp as it were.

Following the mighty 6414 driver/phase splitter, the trusty EL84 output stage can be switched between either around 20 watts of TRIODE or 40 watts of Ultra Linear mode push-pull operation. Individual bias for each tube is easily adjusted using the trimpots and test points, conveniently located on the top surface of the amplifier. The Stingray's power supply is extra-rugged and stiff, a MANLEY hallmark. It swims with the sharks: fast, agile, fluid, and with consummate authority.

With the Stingray, the MANLEY team has struck a remarkably harmonious balance in design which satisfies the sonic desires of the audiophile and the rocker, the artist and the musician, the student and the master, the yin and the yang. We invite you to experience the stunning sonic quality and visual beauty of the Stingray personally. 

In Summer 2005 we added the following features to production. Stingrays designated with serial code MSTX### now include the following:

TRIODE - UL Switching

SUBWOOFER OUT

RECORDING OUT

TAPE LOOP (Insert) with Bypass switch

 

Select between 20 watts of seductive and ethereal TRIODE mode or 40 watts more powerful Ultra Linear output tube operation.

Subwoofer OUT a line level output that is AFTER the volume control so your powered subwoofer follows the same volume as your main speakers. These are unbalanced RCA jacks, line level. They feed the line inputs of your subwoofer, NOT the speaker jacks.

RECORD OUT (aka Tape OUT) is BEFORE the volume control so you can record whatever input you have selected without your listening level affecting the level going to your recorder. These are unbalanced RCA's. It is UNbalanced RCA's and UNbuffered so check out the input Z to your recorder to make sure it won't load down the Stingray main input while it is plugged in. Usually with unbuffered record outs we recommend you only plug in your recorder only when you are actually recording...

Tape LOOP: Also known as an INSERT point, the SEND or Tape Out comes off the selector switch as the Record Out option does going to your outboard EQ or Merlin BAM unit or tape recorder and then the signal returns (RETURN) to the Stingray in front of of the volume control so you can play tunes. A toggle switch selects whether the Tape LOOP (and whatever is plugged into the Tape Loop) is active or the signal goes straight through the Stingray as normal. If you have the Merlin BAM system, order your Stingray with the Tape LOOP option.

 

Need more than four inputs? Get a SKIPJACK line switcher and run it into this LOOP RETURN: The SKIPJACK is perfect for adding more inputs to anything. So if you use a SKIPJACK's 4 stereo inputs plus the Stingray's 4 stereo inputs you'll get 8 stereo inputs total. The way to do that is to consider the TAPE LOOP: you can bring the SKIPJACK output into the LOOP RETURN, enact the LOOP ACTIVE switch and use the 4 x SKIPJACK inputs feeding the LOOP RETURN with the SKIPJACK controlling source switching for those 4 inputs. Then if you put the Stingray's LOOP switch to BYPASS you will be working with the 4 x Stingray inputs selectable on the Stingray. That gives you 8 total stereo inputs as shown here.

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Or if you do not want to use the TAPE LOOP feature (because you are using it for other purposes) or if you have an older Stingray without the TAPE LOOP, you can use a SKIPJACK to get up to 7 stereo line inputs by running the SKIPJACK's output into one of the Stingray's inputs as shown here:

NOTE: The SUBWOOFER OUT, RECORD OUT, and TAPE LOOP are all passive. So are the BALANCE and VOLUME controls also passive. No active electronics or buffers are used in these circuits. The RECORD OUT comes straight off the input select switch. So whatever source is selected will show up passed through at the TAPE OUT, regardless of whether or not the Stingray is on or off. The SUBWOOFER OUT will also produce signal when the Stingray is off, but you can turn down the volume control if you do not want tunes coming out of it when the unit is turned off.

With the Stingray, the MANLEY team has struck a remarkably harmonious balance in design which satisfies the sonic desires of the audiophile and the rocker, the artist and the musician, the student and the master, the yin and the yang. We invite you to experience the stunning sonic quality and visual beauty of the Stingray personally.

FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS

4 x Stereo Line RCA Inputs

TRIODE - UL Switching

RECORDING OUT

SUBWOOFER OUT

TAPE LOOP (Insert) with Bypass switch

Passive Noble Volume and Balance Controls

All-Vacuum Tube Lo-feedback Stereo Integrated Design

Output Tubes: 8 x EL84 Ships with Russian NOS EL84M (aka 6Pi14Pi-EB) (We are out of Ei 6BQ5)

Driver Tubes: 2 x 6414 Ships with GE or RAYTHEON JAN NOS USA or 6414W

Input Tubes: 2 x 12AT7EH Ships with: 12AT7EH large plate Electro-Harmonix Russian

Maximum Output Power UL mode: 40 Watts x 2 channels 1.5% THD @ 1kHz

Maximum Output Power TRIODE mode: 20 Watts x 2 channels

Frequency Response: 15 Hz - 40 kHz, -1dB

Gain: 37 dB at max Volume

Input Sensitivity: 185 mV in = 50 watts out into 5 Ohms

Input Sensitivity Triode: 66mV in = 1W into 8 Ohms

Input Sensitivity UL: 53mV in = 1W into 8 Ohms

S/N Ratio: typically 87 dB A-WGT, 20Hz-20KHz

Input Impedance: 50 kOhm nominal

Optimum Speaker Load: 5 Ohms

Actual Output Impedance:

at 20Hz: 2.8 Ohms

at 100Hz: 2.6 Ohms

at 1KHz: 2 Ohms

Damping Factor: 5

Scratch Factor: Use pennies under pointed feet to avoid marring cabinetry. Try quarters if you are in upper tax brackets. The bargain performer would be nickels. Paper currency does not function as well. Euro coins work 1.54 times better.

Power Consumption Idle: 200W

Maximum Power Consumption at Full Power: 370W

MAINS Fuses: 100~120VAC operation: MDL 3 AMP / 250 Volt SLO-BLO 220~240VAC operation: MDL 1.5 AMP / 250 Volt SLO-BLO

B+ FUSES (2): MDA 1/4 AMP, 250 Volt SLO-BLO, Ceramic. (Located internally)

Power Supply: is factory set for 100V, 120V or 220-240VAC operation for original destination country's mains voltage.

Operating Mains Voltage: changeable with power transformer re-wiring on PCB and fuse value change.

Mains Voltage Frequency:

Power Cord: Detachable IEC standard. Appropriate power cord supplied for destination country

Dimensions: W= 19", D=14", H= 5 1/2"

Shipping Weight: 30 lbs.

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