BEAST TUBE POWER AMPLIFIER Unboxing & Review - Brooks Berdan Ltd.
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Tube Master Piece from Jadis of France, the PA100, has 12 KT-120 output tubes. $14,900
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At 150 watts this handcrafted unit is gorgeous in appearance and sound. Bringing the emotions of the music up front and personal. The Jadis is Handcrafted in France by a second generation family-owned company. This amplifier is the successor the AudioPhile legendary and favorite Jadis Defy 7. The PA-100 improves and refines that sound.
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As a recovering audiophile, I almost fell for this …but then I realised I’m a musician and that I’m surrounded by live music! 🔥🙌🏾😎💫
The wiring sparked memories. I worked wiring industrial panels for a while. About 4 of us would work on a board. The company didn’t really care how messy it was but a girl on our crew started really make them tidier. It took off. Pretty soon we were producing art with consistent curves in the wires. We were as fast as any one else because everything was so clear we could spot or resolve a mistake far more quickly. I think the factories where they ended up probably appreciated it too.
Stuart Green As a design engineer you are a hero! Thanks for taking pride in your work!
Military wiring procedure.
In France, we use this tidius method since the born of industry. And some people coming from USA told us about US wiring.
@@snowrs1 Thanks! Not too many people would appreciate it the way you can.
There's nothing like the sound of glass... I love it thank you..
Yup. Sounds incredible through my $2 iPad speakers 🤣🤣🤣
Tube HiFi and other audio tube's applications is something we seems to share between French and US music lovers... Here in France we kept this passion alive by proposing beautiful gears and outstanding sound scene, people in the field always kept saying the tubes weren't dead yet and also there was always a real advantage to listen music through tubes! And for what I can see from my little french mountain here in the Alps it tend to make me think you kept the same love for those little glass bottles!! You worked to keep this whole world alive and to transmit it to the youth, that's so awesome! I'm a kid from the 80/90's and tubes were already almost forgotten by everybody but thanks to older guys like some of you here I had the pleasure to fall in love with tubes and I hope I will be able to find a real passionated young guy near me to pass him my vintage tube collection...
$50,000+ in Audio equipment recorded and played back on UA-cam and it still doesn't sound any better than my cheap bookshelf speakers for some reason. Please bring all this equipment to my house so I can test in person.
UA-cam uses quite heave compression and the compression is not even a good one. You loose both sound and picture quality!
Why would i need such a setup?To become a broke audiophile?
@@PerKroon Yup....
@@beslemeto For the eargasm!
You got it buddy
Hell of a set-up! LOVE tube amps! Now if only I could win that darn lottery!
There's one problem with this video, you're not hearing the amp itself, what you hear is your own speakers with audio over the net.
Valve amps really do sound warmer especially when paired with quality speakers
That tube amp sounded live and clear on my desktop speakers!
Beautiful thing!
On my iphone
Wow
Sheesh, the gloves required to install the tubes are $500.
Only 22 seconds of music in a 7+ minute "review" of an amp. Maybe I'm alone on this, but I expected more. Appreciate the "guts" view and technical breakdown! Thank you
Hello Glenn,
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Would have been fun to see close up shots of the amplifier. Some technical specs might have been great as well during the presentation. You show a testing lab but no numbers for geeks like me. Finally, for such an expensive amplifier, 2 or 3 genres of music playbacks (classical, jazz, blues) would have been appreciated. You are passionate and it shows, thanks for providing this content.
I glad you pointed out that it isn't cheap, I almost ordered two.
I am so thankful for cheaper tech! Now a phone and decent earplugs give you most of the musicality you'll ever be able to appreciate.
thank you ...i understand what were those tubes ....because i have many many memories of them ..when just made a transmitter with ..6L6 ..or El34 ....or ..pl84 and ETC ....those tubes are great for everything ..perfect and simple schematic diagram using ...with powerful output and almost wide input more volume pressure frequency .....i understand them of 40 years ago .. perfect ...perfect ...thanks again...
Thank you for an interesting video and amplifier from France.
I use my Old 1960's Akai
1/4" (Sound on sound) reel to reel
with a (stereo) pair of tube amps with EL 84's, aboout 20 WATTS worth in total,
to play my records with. And, my 1/4" reels.
I can't tell you how good this sounds. The Analog World was a
world of the professionals of Sound Mixing and wonderful Playback excellence.
Sound Engineers in those analog days had to be good especially mixing in
early Mono and Stereo sound to compete for customers and
in the movie industry and recording industries.
I have a TEAC 2340 sx, and a TEAC 3340 sx, REEL TO REELS , I've also collected some quadraphonic gear of LP Vinyl records and 8 track quad tapes.
Pretty much seems like overkill!!
Like they're just looking for the money, the more tubes the higher the value?
Like a Spinal Tap tube system.
How many tubes does it need?
Their equivalence to going up to 11?
You could hear everything. I got an Audiolab 6000A Play amp and special acoustically made speakers that smoke my B&W 706s. And your system sounded better than most recordings on direct feed. One complaint, make the demos longer.
Hello, thank you for your positive feedback, we appreciate it. We would like to be able to make the demos longer, but if we do You Tube will take the video down because of copyright laws I believe.
That was hilarious, about 20 secs of audio playback out the system to gauge how good it is? I guess you will be doing a long video of comparison and playback?
“Harry, it’s cold in here...”. “No problem, Susie, I’ll just turn on my power amp!!”
I really love the high fidelity sound you demonstrated for us all on UA-cam. The sound from a tube amp is just second to none. My first taste of vacuum tubes amps was a Zenith cabinet radio and the sound was just unbelievable. The volume level would rock down the house wall plaques. That memory will be with me till the day I die. Nice unit at a fair price too. VF
Thank you for your comment. You know quality when you see it. Of coarse it's impossible to demonstrate the real sound unless you hear it in a showroom or in a home two channel system.
@@BrooksBerdanLtd Very well stated about the sound in person. But you can still tell or at least I can tell to some degree the high fidelity sound. Nice unit for sure. VR
How can you hear the sound on UA-cam? Stupid or insane.
@@robertkat Memory is a strong trait. Mr. Kattner.
Yes Dear I know it's expensive but think of all the money we'll save on heating bills ....
How can anyone argue with that reasoning.
A recommendation for those who want a tube amp, but never had one. Go to some place like these people to listen to it for a time. I had a less expensive hybrid tube amp (40 watt/channel 8 ohms). I found over time the high frequency musical instruments like cymbals or violins didn't have the sharpness of solid state. It's all personal choice as to what you wish to hear.
The output transformer is a non-linear element as a function of frequency. Therefore it introduces a significant phase distortion if one compares the input phase of the signal with the output phase! To remedy this, it is necessary to build OTL (Output Tarnsformer Less) amplifiers. Much better!
Yes, I built exactly that using 12-tubes about 58 years ago !! Nowadays, my cheap Class-T Amp from China sounds great. Maybe now my ears are not so great !
The beast looks like a futuristic Sub Power Station!
Just watching the start and already counting the $'s on each of those Moon's... then on the power bill... Then on the physio after moving 150lb's of tubes up 2 flights of stairs then onto a rack. Great video, great sound, well built and thought through design and always enjoy seeing the eye candy that lies under the behemoth. Solid bare copper wire seems to sound better than good insulated wire for some reason, much nicer job there than I can do on the average day!
Like most of these ‘high end’ demonstrations, easy to reproduce music is used. Ie minimal dynamic range, not many tones at one time, not much super bass or super treble.
I am using an iphone with an external blue tooth amp/speakers. This system sounds pretty good because the music chosen is very easy to reproduce. If I got the original source and used my bedroom system: mac 4100 / NHT 1.1, I bet it would sound way better.
The next time you do a demonstration like this why not do some thing like the 1812 Overture?
I'm sure it's a good amp. Trouble is watching the video will only make sound as good as my speakers. Just like the TV ads in the 60's showing you that nice color picture. I was seeing the ad on a B&W TV!
Perfect !! Its sounds exactly the same as my Kenwood stereo. I just saved myself $14.800
Wow, sounds just like my $175 phone and $65 headphones. The $875 Williston Tube amp I have sounds just as good. Never understood the reason to spend $75k or even way more on a system
Amen
I only wish I could hear it in person, I'm sure between internet streaming, compression and ultimately hearing it through solid state equipment on my end is NOT doing it justice. I'm also curious, does the "standby" mode disable the B+ voltage, or how does that work?
It's a soft start warm up.... let's tubes get heated up slowly for longevity.
Soft start warm up indeed!! Ya Gotta take it easy, after all, you don't want to blow out the Cathodes
in those three dozen Very Expensive valves until the time is just right to listen to Fleetwood Mac and
Stevie Nicks mellow their way into your soul, like you have one!!!👿💲💲🔘💩💩💂👹👻🔕⌛💰💰
Standby keeps the tube filaments on to provide the optimal performance of the tube. From a cold start the tube is non- linear in performance it’s just how the tube is designed
Absolutely. Studio grade equipment has a presence quality that has to be heard directly. It's awesome. Close your eyes and it's like the live performer is right there.
Thank you! Just what I wanted to say. So many people do that. How is someone supposed to listen to a $14K amp, played through, I don't know, $10K speakers (back in the "day" speakers were 50% of the budget), recorded over who knows what type of mic, then streamed for someone to listen to over their $40 computer speakers?
Your wife is NEVER gonna let you buy this,lol!!!
Time for her to go.......... XD
Get rid of the wife !
A rich girlfriend might.
Francis, you failed to ensure your wife completely understands what it means to be an audiophile. Start with this, the most expensive things in life are #1. the home #2. the audio system in said home. #3. everything else.
I was almost able to follow this (sports car/audio system tie). Wife: no input.
The Defy 7 was "cost effective for Jadis". Thanks for the qualifier because it was still too expensive for most audiophiles including me.
I'm thinking that the 1812 overture would be a good test piece to play. 150 watts from 6 of those monster tubes? I'm sure they could handle a lot more than that and by using them at a fraction of their rating the distortion would be at extremely low levels. I've got a pair of tubes that can put out 150 watts each. However, I'm also sure the distortion would also be too high at that level with them.
Trying to appreciate these amps from an Internet video is like watching old TV ads FOR TV's. It is interesting, but...
Buy the phone with better speakers ;)
We get it !
Well the thing is, that tube analog tone, gets converted to digital, compressed by UA-cam for easier streaming, etc. To appreciate the tone, you'd have to be in the room with it.
@@timm.6391 Exactly.
Unfortunately, your are right. If I lived close to this retailer I'd stop by for this very reason. But, they might ask me to leave when they realize no transaction will ever take place. Which would probably be two steps inside the door.
When the lights go down in the city that means they just turned this amp on😆
The other way around
Dare not think of tube rolling this beauty. Yeah ... the rails are so nicely done. Keeps things so neat and tidy.
Sorry, one question; Are you planning to use it as a stove?
Good products and music are a kind of enjoyment. We are all on the road of pursuing beauty.
I forgot to mention my best sounding amplifiers do not use an output transformer, they are OTL design. The frequency response 20 Hz to 150 Khz ( - 6Db ).
2:13 LOL. The guy behind him laughs after his voice cracks
Jadis makes the most beautiful and best sounding equipment, definitely a amplifier for life!
Couldn't agree more!
Yes they certainly are an amplifier for life. Anyone that doesn't agree with that hasn't seen the build quality in person nor had the opportunity to listen to them. Yes they are expensive. So are a lot of other amplifiers out there that aren't nearly as good. Thanks for the comment, happy listening !
Everythings a real bargain.
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Obviously you never owned one. I have and their stuff is unstable junk
Sounds amazing, I would like to retire with this thing playing my favourite record s. Beautiful
Go for it!
All those sweet sounds up to 9kHz...😇
With this amp, you don't need room-heating in winter anymore ;-)
Although it does create some heat, it doesn't create as much as many other tube amps.
@@BrooksBerdanLtd Mr. Brooks I have 4 chassis or do you call them for blocks. jadis ja500 2 dual mono amplifiers and two power supplies. The owner of the company that I work for passed away and the company was getting rid of a lot of stuff in storage. no one knowing how valuable they were I asked for them and they gave them to me. Do not know if I need to keep them or sell them because I do not have any power chords. Or any other equipment. Because times are hard right now. because of the covid-19 I might have to sell them.
Wonderdul amp I am sure. However, i am struggling to get that “lively” sound listening via youtube (as with other videos by other posters)
Right I know. We play some music for fun but obviously you can't hear what it really sounds like. Thanks for the comment.
My iPad just sounded like it always does. Wonderful. Thank you.
For that sort of money, I'd go transistor class A. You don't get better fidelity. If you love hifi, high biased transistors can't be beat. If you like your sound coloured with harmonics, by all means buy this valve amp
most people don't know the difference between class A and class B power or how the switching between wavelengths look on an oscilliscope
Yes via my $20 walmart speakers on my pc it sounds amazing.
it would !
It never fails. The more expensive the gear, the more crude the music that audiophiles listen to.
the cruder the music the better it sounds, put some complex music on and it sounds a mash, I agree I put on simple music if I want to listen to my hi fi.
Him: “Doesn’t that just sound alive?”
Me: No, sounds like everything else I play on this tablet lol
Every time you said you were looking for some feedback, I chuckled. {dad joke}
Jadis makes beautiful equipment
Nice musical sound
I remember ecc series tube usesely used far AC transformer supply with parerrel filament connections and PL series was series filament connections AC/ DC supply. ECL 86 and pcl86or82 was audio amplifier in India ❤️❤️
It would be interesting to hear that setup with infinity irs v speakers. Jadis deserves a speaker of that caliber. Some beautiful violin pieces and large orchestra music and now you can really hear what those jadis electronics can do.
I’m gonna buy this to listen my mp3s 😜
We really didn't get to hear that by itself, by adding power amps into the mix it 's hard to really know how it performs on it's own.
Межкаскадные конденсаторы Icel или другой фирмы ?
The algorythm suggested this video to me purely because I want a valve tube amp. $1,500 is a stratch of my own imagination but $15,000? Never.
Would have enjoyed more video on the inside of that beautiful piece.
I can't say I know how they sound, but i think they have some of the prettiest audio hardware ever produced. I love the gold plates.....and of course tubes, tubes, tubes.........
15 grand for an amplifier? I'm very happy with my 250 quid Pioneer. Amazing sound
Wow - it's a big mother - almost as big as a very large amplifier. I wonder how many watts it pumps out.
“The order of tubes is critical to the sound”. Ill bet if you switch all of them around on a double blind test. NO-ONE would know the difference.
You see, there's Magick inside each French glass bottle. That Magick must align perfectly with the "friendly Vibes" of the socket it was "mated" with. Otherwise TENSION creeps into the Musicality of the output.
It's all too TERRIBLY COMPLEX for mere Science to grapple with,
let alone understand or Engineer in. Musicality is what I speak of, not just ordinary High Fidelity.
@Mario Cantani yep. And they can shove their oxygen free copper wire where the sun never shines...
To be fair, what they were probably referring to is that this is not a auto bias unit so the tubes were biased in the factory. That is a real thing backed by science.
Some of the tubes are preamp and some are power amp. You’d fry the amp if you didn’t put the correct tubes in the correct sockets.
Mushroom cloud!
Looks great and I'm sure sounds wonderful... but the sound doesn't translate on UA-cam.
I’d like to make it simple, the amp. Is awesome!
We agree !
You could only hear how great it sounds in person. Internet video does not replicate the sound quality (not even close). Construction of transformers / chassis / hand wiring / tube matching is what contributes to the cost, and it's not cheap to do that.
spagetty wiring amps what i sawed. So different class with my pair ARC 150 & preamps Sp15
OH Great! Sounded fantastic coming from my laptop's crappy speakers! I will buy a couple of those amps to hook onto my Android phone's output.
It sounded so wonderful through my speaker phone, awesome product! 👍
I listened to OCMIKE playing Tube Amps compared to all Digital Transistor AMPS
14k is quite a price tag. I make them for far less. But of course, I understand business: Tube lovers are rare.
Thundering Drum Sounded just like my HP computer. Gotta get one of these.
Funny to see that audiophiles are mostly older men. At an age that their hearing is limited to around 10 KHz.
Ernst ... also at a time in their life when they might actually be able to afford to buy this!
Called the cruel fate of life. By the time one can afford this type of gear, super-tweeters might as well be painted on.
w/o amplication, yeah, hearing may be bad. But crank it to 10 and we can hear just fine.
i don't get it, i'm just hearing the same crappy sound i always do on my samsung monitor. how do you guys get tube sound on youtube?
damn... they sound exactly the same as my laptop speakers
You need lots of money with 18 tubes to replace now& then !
Not sure why I would need so much power. Better to have too much than too little. The inside is art.
The idea is dynamic range. If you have so much power, it is supposed to reveal more at lower volumes. A lot of other factors are involved but essentially, you are covering more with less harmonic distorsion and providing a wider path for a richer signal filled with frequencies and their harmonics. A notion of depth and width or volume.
Thanks brother from India
No-one would notice the difference if you swapped the tubes. Same old myth about standby...just turn it on and wait, forget standby. The size of today’s filter caps delays the rise on HT volts (put a voltmeter on and you will see this). Standby won’t kill tubes but it does reduce their service life. Standby is only for super high HT on transmitter valves. It would be great to listen to this amp live!
Könnt ihr nochmal alles wieder einpacken?
The problem these days most speakers are 4 and 6 ohms and they require amps like these to drive them properly
John Bravo excellent point. The vast majority of speakers made over the past 50 years are designed with transistor amps in mind and therefore have a low sensitivity. From a design standpoint it’s far better to use 2 pairs (l/R stereo) of output valves in push pull with a efficient pair of loudspeakers designed specifically for valve amplification. A low noise design will always have a short signal path with fewer components and an excellent layout. Wow though, what a beast of a valve amp!
it" because stupid your listening on your computer speakers dud??? for the comment who said Thundering Drum Sounded just like my HP computer. Gotta get one of these.
The time for things like this is very, very, almost over. Good luck out there.
Yup, I do wonder how far digital tube emulation will filter into the home audio market like it is in guitar amps for those who want a bit of tube lushness to colour their sound. Once you have a digital source and are happy to accept EQing subwoofers and digital room correction, tube emulation doesn't seem that that crazy a concept.
It Will help keep the room temperature warm too.
Those big power caps look like BHC Aerovox? Can you tell me who makes them or possibly a supplier or part number. Would be greatly appreciated. Great set up by the way
Donner und Blitzen ! What a juggernaut !
Regards.
It would be much more interesting if there was a comparison to a good standard solid-state system for a fraction of the cost. Plus, that kind of gear is just interesting if the goal is to bring out the bells and whistles of an orchestra or jazz big band. For the typical country, jazz, blues or rock band it just hopelessly overblown.
So what if you want to try a tube roll with this?
I've heard those Tung Sol tubes are great though!
first question: If it hand build can I do it in my basement?
There were some Fisher s.s amps w stk 080 power out ics 80watts a side seen them at flea mkt 50$ just need new ics they sound great . Low $easy repair.🤗
There is a myth that tubes wear out after a while. This is not true. I restore old 1930s equipment . Many of those tubes are original and have done 1000s of hours service . They still test strong and sound superb when the chassis components are restored. Some use KT66s , EL 34s , or even PX4s . The later small 50s type valves don't last as long .
Too rich for the working class. I may be wrong reasons I got into tubes is because it sounds better so I sent out a few years ago garage selling bought up as many of those old console stereos that were tubes got into watching a lot of videos and Built My Own have a hooked up to an older Pioneer tuner and an old RCA record player then I had handbill and crafted my own speakers mostly out of tectonics because of their electronics that they have inside now my tube amp being home built isn't much to look at I'm hoping in the future to redesign it and make it look pretty or I will post a video and pictures of it but the sound I got back what I was looking for no electrical engineer or radio person by any means I just knew what I wanted
I am looking for p2p wiring tube preamp for my turntable it's a Audio Teck direct drive. I perfer the more reliable direct drive vrs belt driven. Anywho, I am looking for p2d tube preamp, how much would you charge to build one for me? 2p2 can look like pasta, I don't care how messy or organized it looks on the inside, I am after that worm right live sound that only tubes give. just joking, I am down to 2 different vacuum tube preamps and I have to take a drive to check them out.
Congratulations Floyd! 👍👍👍👍🎯
Woww that's surely a beast, sounds super duper good and visually very impressive, thanks for sharing..
I wish you would tell BlueBird to import the Jadis Diapason integrated amplifier. For whatever reason they won't. I know its not a big money maker but it's popular in Europe and gets great reviews. Perfect for people with high efficiency speakers. It gets people into the brand where many will probably stay and move up in the line.
If you would like one we are more then happy to get it for you. Your right they are great!
@@BrooksBerdanLtd Thanks. It might be a possibility. I'm still deciding on my next speakers. If I find a pair I like and can be driven well by 15 watts then I'll let you know. The Jadis Diapason would be at the top of my list.
Please explain the difference between class A and AB I have my crayons and coloring book ready. I have no clue why this showed up in my feed!
Can you show a schmatic???
I did not know that such monstrosities existed!
😲
I like! :P 👏👏👏👍
You guys do a very very GOOD JOB - Thank You and big LIKe for all your Service !!! This is a very good Learning Channel about Audio-Amplification... very impressive !!! 🏆❤💯
Can this be used for movies, because this can be great for a home theater
Damn. The tube power amp for powering a Metallica concert lol
Or an AC/DC concert for that matter.
@@billdang3953 lol! I think ac/dc is more appropriate! Ha!
Can somebody please explain what is the difference between tubes amp and transistor amp. And why tubes are still used today? I thought they are history now.
Tube amps are favored by musicians because of their tone. A properly designed tube amp such as Jadis, has a more life like reproduction of sound without sounding harsh. It's kinda like putting on your favorite pair of slippers. It just feels (sounds) right.