User Manual

Phonitor
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Applications
Aside from its outstanding abilities as loudspeaker substitute the
Phonitor offers well equipped studios a fully functional monitoring
alternative.
In addition one can take along the Phonitor into an unfamiliar studio
or production environment that always provides the engineer’s own
monitor sound.
Furthermore, with the Phonitor one can simply enjoy music as it was
originally mixed, namely for playback over loudspeakers.
A New Kind Of Headphone Amplifiers:
The Headphone Monitoring Amplifiers
The Phonitor design is our high-end interpretation for what a complete
headphone amplifier should be. A well chosen system of Phonitor and
headphones can by and large replace loudspeakers and offers best
requirements for a fatigue-free hearing and successful work sessions.
We therefore refer to the Phonitor as a headphone monitoring amplifier
system.
The basis for this high-end development is our proved 120 volts ref-
erence technology based upon our own, handmade operation ampli-
fier. It corresponds to approximately twice that of most modern analog
audio semiconductor technologies. Through such 120 volts circuitry
and processing we reach performance levels far beyond conventional
designs in dynamic range and distortion levels.
Such technical specifications exceed all known analog or digital stan-
dards (please also refer to the chapter “The End of Ear Fatigue” from
page 10).
With And Without Magnifiers
The Phonitor encompasses advantages of both kinds of monitoring
methods: On one hand the analytical headphone monitoring is like
working with an acoustic magnifier but without external room influenc-
es; on the other hand, loudspeaker monitoring forgoes the microscopic
effect, but provides for room ambiance.
Working with the magnifier effect of headphones has the advantage of
safely hearing clicks or similar defects and helps in fine tuning cross-
fades or to judge tonal problems in individual tracks. >
Introduction