Audio Valve Baldur 70 - a resonably priced classic, handmade in Germany

The 2018 version of Audio Valve's Baldur 70, or lovingly called Baby-Baldur, is a smaller version of its big brother Baldur 300 for a reasonable price.

Like in all Audio Valve’s larger model power-amps, the proven fully automatic bias regulator (ABR) at the power tubes, also appears here in the power stages of BALDUR 70. This is  world wide unique and this feature is a ‘must’ for relevant tasks to stabilize the bias of the power valves and actually belongs standard into 21st century tube-technology - at least with Audio Valve!

Safety, reliability and durability are synonym for our tube amps for over a decade! Apart from the high reliability of the output stage, the 'Baby-Baldur' unites further interesting, typical Audio Valve’s refinements on the part of the concept. As for the power tubes, BALDUR 70 utilizes only four 6AS7G’s per  channel where BALDUR 300 uses ten 6AS7G’s per channel (and in doing so, it’s the only power stage using 10 tubes coupling a clean 200 Watts power-output to a damping-factor of 100!).

The Baby-Baldur cannot compete completely with the extreme standard of the Baldur 300 mono blocks, but gives a real run for its money, and makes a quiet worthy and certainly more inexpensive entrance possible to a true triode power amp. And with this masterpiece one immediately recognizes the incomparable quality of a correct trimmed set of 6AS7G’s with 75 WPC.

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Specifications:

· Power supply:  100-250 Volt
· Power consumption (each mono block): 250 Watt
· Tubes: 4x 6AS7G, 1x ECC83, 2x ECC82, 1x 6N6P or 6CG7 per channel
· Operation:  Push-Pull Class-A
· Max Output (per channel): 70 Watt  (8 ohm load, 1% dist.)
· THD at rated output: 0.3% ( 50Watt/100Hz – 1KHz – 10KHz)
· Power bandwidth: 10Hz – 50KHz (8Ohm load)
· Damping factor:  20  (output Z= 0.4 Ohm)
· Input sensitivity: 0 dBm ( 775 mV)
· Automatic Bias Regulation: unique full automatic biasing for all powertube-triodes
· Version : Black or silver colored case and chrom or gold terminals
· Dimensions: Width 32.5 cm; Depth  38.5 cm; High 30 cm
· Weight: 16 Kg
· Dimensions with package: W: 45cm; D: 52.5 cm; H: 50cm

Reviews:
Ken Kessler concluded:
"...let's put this into context. Here's Kessler, with no great love for the Fatherland, raving feverishly about another Teutonic tube amp, and in under a year. While it is completely unlike the T+A, which is ultra-modern and 'lifestyle' and sexy, it represents the same sort of value - real and perceived. It will not replace the McIntosh, which edges it out in absolute dynamic contrasts, absolute quietness and sheer grunt, as well as looks. And I still have dreams of the Marantz Project T-1, the Nagras and one or two others requiring a lottery win. But, damn, the Baldur 70 is one miracle of an amplifier. 'Today Kessler, tomorrow...."
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