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Introduction
Martin van Rooyen,
Perreaux Managing Director
and the Perreaux design team
Thank you for choosing this Audiant VP3 Vinyl Preamplifier. We sincerely hope it provides you with
many years of music listening pleasure.
The Audiant VP3 is a highly flexible customisable vinyl preamplifier capable of connecting both Moving
Magnet and Moving Coil cartridges to your audio system, providing low distortion, high dynamic range
and a sound which is open, detailed and transparent.
The VP3 includes separate low noise input stages for Moving Magnet and Moving Coil cartridges with
dip switches for both resistive and capacitive loading on each input allowing for a clean, direct
customisable signal path from the cartridge output.
The separate direct connections and switches ensure minimal noise and maximum channel separation,
with the added ability of connecting two cartridges simultaneously and conveniently selecting between
the two from the front panel.
Four different gain settings, the ability to switch between the normal RIAA and IEC RIAA equalisation
curves and the selectable Mono input ensure the highly flexible VP3 is compatible with any cartridge
and audio system through the high rated balanced (XLR) and unbalanced output connections.
The highest quality internal power supply features a custom designed, fully shielded toroidal transformer
with shunt voltage regulation and filtering ensuring a low noise supply providing high levels of
transparency, detail and dynamics.
The internal layout ensures that the power supply is separated from the preamplifier stage to reduce
noise while the mirrored layout of the preamplifier design about the output ensures maximum channel
separation.
Whether as part of a complete Audiant system or as the vinyl preamplifier in your existing system, the
VP3 will reconnect you with your MUSIC.
Thank you for taking the time to read this manual; we do recommend you keep it for future reference.
