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SonoruS Audio ATR10 MKII Analog Tape Player

Before starting Sonorus Audio in 2008 Arian Jansen held several senior management positions in the electronics industry. Most recently he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Vice President of Power Products at ICC/Elpac Electronics Inc. responsible for all engineering activity at Elpac, including leadership of design and product development activities at its design centers in Irvine, California and Shenzhen, China. 

Before joining Elpac, he was Director of Advanced Engineering at Flextronics, responsible for building a power supply design team and supporting major international customers. He has similar experience building power supply design teams and introducing new products incorporating new technologies as Director of Development Engineering at Delta Products Corporation (US subsidiary of Delta Electronics Inc. of Taiwan) and as Director of R&D at NMB Technologies. Previously he was a Senior Engineer for Power at Hewlett Packard in Grenoble, France. A native of The Netherlands, he speaks English, German and Dutch.

Sonorus Audio ATR10 Analog Tape Reproducer

There's a reason they're called "master tapes" - nearly all pre-digital recordings began their life being recorded directly to tape. As a result, copies of these are as close as you can come to the original recording. The Sonorus Audio ATR10 Analog Tape Reproducer was built specifically to play back these sonic wonders. While it's based on the Revox PR99 chassis and uses some Studer/Revox parts in the mechanical transport, the tape drive, power supplies, and playback amplifiers of the ATR10 are all-new, based on current-production parts. Features include selectable EQ, motor-assisted fast braking for easier searching, and the ability to draw the attention of anyone who walks by.

The NEW ATR10 mkII is an upgrade in both audio performance and tape transport capabilities from the original ATR10. Also, the aesthetics have been fully redesigned. Although at its core still based on proven Studer motors and heads, all electronics and many mechanical parts have been redesigned to meet and exceed any modern-day high-end and audiophile expectations. Regulated tape tension and strategically placed rolling tape guides provide the same stable tape transport as professional studio tape machines.

Sonorus Audio ATR10 mkII 

Vacuum tube playback electronics utilizing our unique, newly developed DC Coupled Stabilized Loop Gain Technology delivers a remarkable combination of dynamic bass impact, normally only associated with solid-state systems, with the mid-range clarity, transparency and sense of realism of vacuum tube systems.

The playback board of the ATR10 mkII, including the newly developed 'DC Coupled Stabilized Loop Gain Technology', a technology that conserves the mid-range clarity, transparency and the natural sound characteristics of well-designed tube circuitry while delivering a dynamic bass impact from tubes, normally only associated with well designed solid state circuitry. 

There's a reason they're called "master tapes" - nearly all pre-digital recordings began their life being recorded directly to tape. As a result, copies of these are as close as you can come to the original recording. 

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