Although many believe that an active line amplifier is not necessary with digital sources, we find that interest in line amplifiers seems to be continually growing at the higher end of the audio market. Not only do separate amplifiers provide convenient control center functions, but a really fine line amplifier can greatly improve the overall presentation of a quality system. Even in the best DACs and players, the output stage is usually somewhat of a compromise and this can become a weak point in an otherwise well-appointed system, one which Silbatone can remedy with our specialist preamplifiers.

The newest Silbatone collection of line amplifiers features trickle-down technology from our reference-grade L-101 preamp which features a WE 262B triode in a unique zero volt in/zero volt out circuit that requires no coupling capacitors from the silver autoformer input to the Bendix 6900 driven silver wired double C core Finemet output transformer. To date, this is the best line amp topology we have experienced and we decided to explore the possibility of this approach on a slightly less costly basis.