Ypsilon Electronics Phaethon

Greetings,

For sale is my Ypsilon Phaethon... $10,999

Purchased earlier in 2021 for my master bedroom system. I am the third owner. Purchased 6H6 ultra premium tubes from Ypsilon and only just broken in with 250 hours. Ultra premium version 6H30i tubes also included from Ypsilon. Selling second system to focus on main rig. 8/10 condition due to few knicks on chassis from previous owner. Remote included, secure packaging and wood box included. Buyer pays all fees.

Information below from importer’s website:

PHAETHON
INTEGRATED HYBRID POWER AMPLIFIER

Price:
$25,000 / $50,000

Product Features:
• $25,000 (SV) Standard Version
• $50,000 (SE) Silver Edition
Silver wound transformers, silver internal wire, silver connectors

- Transparent sounding transformer attenuator
- Only three gain stages, one of them the active preamp stage with tubes
- Unique “bridged single-ended” output stage biased in class A
- Full function remote control






PHAETHON integrated amplifier is a unique product in many aspects. It uses many of the technical solutions developed in our Aelius monoblock amplifier and PST100mk2 preamplifier in a compact and elegant design.

PHAETHON is a hybrid line level amplifier utilizing only three active gain stages, two of them with low noise valves operating in single-ended class A fashion for the input and driver stage. It uses a transformer attenuator build in-house, embedded in the preamplifier section in a novel post attenuation technique.

The tube driver stage is coupled to the output stage with a wide bandwidth inter-stage transformer that provides perfect phase splitting for the output stage.

The output stage combined by same polarity semiconductors for both phases in a “balanced single-ended architecture” offers the flavor of pure single-ended designs with the power of push-pull designs.

There are separate power supplies for the tube and output stage utilizing five power supply inductors for low noise filtering.

All these were designed into one to operate in unison offering unmatched sound quality, making the platform of the integrated amplifier, a clear advantage.

All functions are remote controlled and are visible through a high quality LCD display with large characters so it can be read from across the room.

"YPSILON... OR LIVE"



The Absolute Sound’s 2017 Golden Ear Award





The Absolute Sound’s 2017 Product Of The Year Award




Product Specifications:

Output Power:
110 wpc rms/8 Ohm
160 wpc rms/4 Ohm

Bandwidth:
-3 db @ 11Hz-75Khz

Output Impedance:
0.05 Ohm

Input Impedance:
47K Ohm

Gain:
x60

Inputs:
RCA (x3)
XLR (x1) unbalanced

Valves:
6H30 (x2)

Power Consumption:
125W at Idle

Dimensions:
15.8 x 16.7 x 7.3" (WxDxH)

Weight:
77 lbs.