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Please read about SAFETY before you attempt to use the M-3000 MK2 - we

care about our customers and the equipment, and we want you to enjoy

this product for a long time!

INTRODUCING THE M-3000 MK2 MONOBLOCK POWER

AMPLIFIER

The M-3000 MK2 monoblocks are Allnic

Audio's top of the line, parallel push-pull

power amplifier model. Like all Allnic Audio

products, the M-3000 has Permalloy (iron

and nickel alloy) for its transformer cores.

Allnic is grateful to Mr. G.W. Elmen of

Western Electric for inventing Permalloy for

transformer core use, and in so doing,

providing an enormous service to recorded

music listeners everywhere.

The M-3000 MK2 has the following features:

•

200 watts of high power output. The M-3000 MK2

is a parallel push-pull, triode/pentode switchable

power amplifier.

•

Powerful Driving Circuitry. Allnic believes in the

importance of using high-quality, low noise and

powerful driving circuitry in all its amplifying

devices. Therefore, in the M-3000 MK2, we employ

the E282F tube in triode mode as the second stage

driver tube, with a load of about 5K ohms, and

using 20mA of current. The listener can easily hear

and even "feel" the differences between this

design and other, more conventional, ones. Please

imagine, as you listen to the M-3000 MK2, its

sound compared to the sound of an amplifier with

conventional 12AU7 or 12BH7's used as drivers,

with a load of about 47K ohm, and using 2 to 3mA

of current.

•

"Full

Engagement"

Conventional output transformers use pre-set

secondary windings to accommodate 4, 8 and 16

ohm

loudspeaker

Output

Transformers.

loads.

However,

these

conventional

transformers

secondary winding at a time, while the other

secondary windings remain "idle". This approach

has two adverse effects. First, the output

transformers are not working at their maximum

efficiency, reducing their output relative to their

potential. Second, the "idle" windings are not

actually "idle"; they are subject to parasitic

oscillations, producing their own "signal". This

undesirable electrical information is additive to the

transformer's output, distorting the amplified signal

going to the loudspeaker. Allnic's "Full Engagement"

transformers address these issues by having 4

independent, secondary windings which are always

fully connected, never "idled". This means that all

secondary windings are always connected to your

loudspeakers, regardless of which output switch

position

you use (4 ohms or 8 ohms or 8 ohms or 16 ohms,

depending on the factory configuration you have

selected). The result is that there is neither a loss

of transformer output efficiency, nor the

introduction into the output signal of distortion

from parasitic oscillations of the secondary

windings.

Large Nickel/FeSi Core Output

Transformers. As with our other models, Allnic

uses very large output transformers (114 mm) with

nickel, mixed with FeSi, cores. This provides for

higher inductance with fewer windings than other

designs can provide and results in the great benefit

of an extremely wide range of output frequencies.

•

"Soft-start" Circuitry. Allnic uses soft start circuitry

that, after sufficient warm-up only, provides the

high voltage supply to the plate of each tube. This

protective design results in prolonged tube life and

fewer and less frequent issues with tube

performance.

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