Clayton Audio

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Audio Systems & Components for the Music Lover

Clayton Audio - Class A Amplifiers (Click on the links below to see additional information for each product)
Coming 2008 - Clayton Audio Preamplifiers

Clayton Audio is a St. Louis based company dedicated to producing reference quality
amplification for those who value the palpability and elegance of natural, live sound. To that
end, we only make pure, class A amplifiers of reference quality. Our amplifiers are the
creation of a retired IBM engineer who specialized in power supply design and who wanted
to bring some of his expertise to the field of audio. All our amplifiers use the new Motorola
semiconductors that are receiving their first audio application. These bipolar output
transistors are multiply paralleled for smooth sound, long term reliability, and extreme
stability (the amplifiers do not produce speaker-destroying on/off thumps). Our power
supplies are built to a standard that would do justice to much higher-powered audiophile
designs with temperature tolerances superior to those of many well-known amplifiers.
All Clayton amplifiers are conservatively rated and have enormous current reserves to drive
virtually any speaker load with aplomb. They will double their power output into 4 ohms and
increase further down to 1 ohm. Carefully selected audiophile grade parts are used
throughout, including the finest audiophile wiring from D.H. Labs and capacitors from
Sprague, as well as binding posts and RCA inputs from WBT, Germany. The faceplates are
finished to meet the most exacting cosmetic standards. Our amplifiers were designed to
handle difficult loads in a manner that has all the traditional strengths of solid-state --- bass
control, power, current delivery, wide frequency response --- while producing a refined,
grainless sound with good depth and imagining that recalls --- without seeking to imitate ---
the best tube equipment. Well-recorded classical music and acoustic jazz are especially
well-served by our products. But rock also takes on a new clarity and weight with our
products