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“Balanced is better.” “All you need to do is listen.” These key principles have guided Delaware-based Balanced Audio Technology (BAT) since its first two products debuted in 1995. Dedicated to uncompromising engineering and innovative design, BAT’s NOW INTRODUCING ALL-SILVER FINISH tube and solid-state components offer unparalleled performance and state-of-theart fidelity. Founders Steve Bednarski and Victor Khomenko have more experience with the reference 6H30 SuperTube than anyone in the high-end industry, while a steadfast focus on ultimate sonic integrity—no matter how challenging—means BAT delivers blissful levels of purity, power, dynamics, and transparency that turn listening to music into transformative events. BAT VK-3000SE Integrated Amplifier Blowing by one of the most acclaimed integrated amplifier designs in history (BAT VK-300x), VK3000SE puts an end to the age-old debate as to whether one-box solutions can best separates. Boasting reference-class performance, myriad user options, and signature BAT power, VK-3000SE will fill any space with sublime dynamics and extraordinary realism. This is the integrated you need if you want to experience revealing musical emotion that will leave you breathless every time you play a song. $7,995 silver, black DEFINITIVE PURITY, PERFECT SYMMETRY BAT VK-55 Tube Power Amplifier VK-55 is a standard-sized, more affordable BAT all-tube amplifier that meets the company’s rigorous design standards while providing BAT’s award-winning sound. The Golden Ear Award-winner offers glorious midrange clarity, power, and dynamics. Able to present an open window to the original performance, it features all-triode topology and the same 6C33C-B tube used in the flagship REX II to deliver sonic nirvana. Auto-biasing also means it’s the easiest tube amplifier to own. Can be upgraded anytime to Stereophile Class A-rated VK-55SE status. BAT VK-23SE Preamplifier Described by the dictionary as “freedom from adulteration or contamination,” “purity” gets defined in musical form in the guise of VK-23SE. Loaded with technology—including transformercoupled outputs and a proprietary 140-step shunt volume control— found in the company’s top-of-the-line components, BAT’s entry-level solid-state preamplifier performs and sounds like a revered tube design. Transmitting the audio signal through just one gain stage, VK-23SE plays back music with perfect symmetry that yields incredible transparency and accurate tonalities. $4,995 black, silver $4,495 ALSO AVAILABLE VK-55SE Tube Power Amplifier $6,995 100 BAT VK-225 Power Amplifier BAT VK-225SE Power Amplifier VK-225 combines unfettered musicality and authoritative power in a compact design. Delivering 150 watts per channel into eight ohms (300 watts per channel into four ohms), and based on the awardwinning topology in BAT’s reference VK-6200 multichannel design, this majestic amp confidently drives any speaker. Lending unstrained ease to the most demanding recordings, its superb dynamic control is evident even on difficult loads. A perfect complement to BAT’s VK23SE, VK-225 is fully upgradeable to the Special Edition VK-225SE. Boosted by the addition of Balanced Audio Technology’s secondgeneration SuperPak—featuring the same oil-filled capacitors used in the company’s reference components—VK-225SE reproduces music’s inner beauty with uncommon soulfulness and engaging depth. Pairing uninhibited sonics and authoritative power in a compact design, and lending unstrained ease to demanding recordings, VK-225SE possesses superb dynamic control that shines even on the most difficult speaker loads. $4,995 black, silver $6,495 black, silver 101