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Vacuum  Tube  Phono  Preamplifier

VP130 MK2
Tube Phono Preamplifier

Bellari's VP130 MK2 vividly and naturally recreates recordings and has a uncanny ability to compliment any turntable. The Bellari's VP130 MK2 further defines its position as the price-to-performance world-beater, do-everything-well, high fidelity phono preamplifier. You need vacuum tubes in your life, and the 12AX7 tube in the Bellari's VP130 MK2 is the perfect audio upgrade to your system.

feature list

• Cartridge Compatibility: Moving Magnet or High output Moving Coil.
• Gain: 38.9 dB gain @ 1kHz with 12AX7 Tube
• Input Impedance: 47k ohms
• Output Impedance: 8-200 ohms Headphone, 100 ohms RCA
• Equalization: RIAA +/- .9 dB, 20Hz to 20kHz
• THD .05% @ 1KHz
• S/N Ratio: 103 dB, unweighted
• Crosstalk: -75 dB

product specifications

• 6" in. W x 2.5 in. H x 5.4 in. D
• 3 Pounds Gross Weight

product REVIEWs

“The versatile Bellari VP130 MK2 looks great and it sounded as good as it looks. It was quiet and golden-sweet and liquid in the midrange, as you’d expect from a 12AX7-based phono preamp. I wasn’t expecting its top end to be so nicely extended, fast, and clean, or its bass to be so snappy, articulate, and extended. Every type of music I played through the surprising little Bellari VP130 MK2 sounded full-bodied and rich, yet detailed and crisply rendered. The Bellari VP130 MK2 gets my highest recommendation, and is the budget phono preamp I will now recommend for every genre of music…get a Bellari VP130 MK2 and a budget turntable, and I promise that your CDs will start to gather dust!”  Stereophile Review

“The Bargain of a Lifetime Tube Phono Stage. For (this price), the Bellari VP130 MK2 Tube Phono stage offers warm musical sound and may be just what the doctor ordered for those who want to get into analog without loading up the credit card.”      TAS Review

Your Price

$238.88

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Solid State  Phono  Preamplifier

The new 2019 Bellari MT502μ is a stereo, moving coil step up transformer that raises the low level of a moving coil cartridge up to a moving magnet level, making your moving coil cartridge compatible with your phono preamp.

The Bellari MT502μ is all hand-built in the USA with 100% USA-made parts, right down to its custom hand-wound transformers and custom-made chassis. The Bellari MT502μ is as much art as it is audiophile performance.

feature list

• RCA inputs
• RCA outputs
• lift/ground switch
• impedance level control
• powder-coated steel chassis

product specifications

• 4.0" in. W x 1.1 in. H x 4.0 in. D
• 2 Pounds Gross Weight

“The Bellari MT502μ transformer — Housed in Bellari’s familiar powder-coated red chassis, the Bellari MT502μ step-up transformer features hand-wound coils, gold-plated inputs and outputs, and a ground lift. The Bellari MT502μ produced a quiet background, sharp transients, and taut, fast, well-defined bass. A perfect match to Bellari’s VP130 moving-magnet phono preamp. From Stereophile magazine (Vol.33 No.11)”  On Stereophile’s ‘Recommended Components’ list in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015… OK, can you see a pattern here?

The Bellari MT502μ is all hand-built in the USA. The Bellari MT502μ is a work of art as much as sonic perfection.

Moving coil cartridges should be stepped up with transformers to get the best sound quality. The issue with almost all phono preamps that claim they are MM and MC compatible is that most are MM phono preamps that are simply boosting the gain in the MC setting. This can create issues with sound quality. The fact of the matter is, MC cartridges need a transformer to be at their best. If you look at very high end systems, they all use step up transformers.

Bellari doesn’t just boost the gain of their phono preamps and call them MC compatible. They build a proper step-up transformer to make your MC cart sound the way it should.

The Bellari will match almost any MC cartridge with its selectable turns ratio switch. It’s like having two step up transformers in one unit. The 12:1 is designed to work with carts like the Denon DL103 or 103R or similar. The 30:1 is designed to work with carts that need more gain/level.

The “μ” stands for MU Metal as that is the new metal now encasing the 2019 Bellari MT502μ transformers. MU Metal is one of the best shielding materials known. The new transformers are hand wound, potted, encased in MU Metal and then placed into a copper chassis that has been gold plated. This is all done by hand, one at a time.

Your Price

$448.88

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Vacuum  Tube  Headphone  Amplifier

The new 2019 Bellari HA540 MK2 headphone amp has impressed us even more than the Bellari HA540. It is a lush sounding 12AX7 tube headphone amp running 150 regulated volts to the tube plates. With plenty of gain that is uniquely capable of driving headphones rated from 8-2000 Ohms. Having two separate inputs, it’s brilliantly designed to work equally well with different source components. It will produce superb clarity when connected directly to a CD player, computer, phone or DAC. A zero-feedback design guarantees a smooth natural analog response. It will be the thing that kicks your music up a notch, and gets you addicted to this hobby. There is a definite weight to the audio quality, in the sense that everything felt like it had some genuine power driving it.

In a world where headphone amps can cost anywhere from $99 to $1,999 and some even $7000. It is hard to find honesty in what is a real true improvement in build quality or sound. How can you read through the online reviews to get a good idea of what to buy when it is clear that some reviews are paid for or that other reviews are not taking into account the full story, in personal experience or knowledge. What I can tell honestly, is that the Bellari HA540 MK2 is hand built in Salt Lake City, UT by people who have been in the industry for a few decades. We have seen it all, from companies selling the equivalent of snake oil and charging outrageously for it, to honest companies that have unfortunately fallen by the wayside.

A zero-feedback design guarantees a smooth, natural analog response. Bellari products are all hand assembled in the USA.

feature list

• Input impedance: 47k Ohms.
• Output Headphone Impedance: 8 Ohms to 2,000 Ohms.
• Maximum output gain: 19.6 dB.
• THD: .04% @ 20 Hz-20K Hz, at 1V RMS.
• S/N ratio: >80dB unweighted.
• Indicator: 1 power blue LED
• Maximum output power: up to 332 mW/side, 664 mW/Stereo ( @ 30 Ohms )
• Frequency response: 6 Hz – 51 kHz
• Phase shift (in to out): 0 dB
• Crosstalk: – 75 dB

Please Note: There are two low connection options, Mini-Jack and RCA. This allows either a Mini to Mini or a Mini to RCA cable to be used. These are either/or inputs; please don't use them simultaneously.

product specifications

• 6.0" in. W x 2.5 in. H x 5.4 in. D
• 2 Pounds Gross Weight

Your Price

$188.88

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