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Product Presentation
U-one. A Box. No Jokes

A del icate touch to the power of sound
A colored box that needs to be touched softly. That’s U-one, the first U-vola™ amplifier. Nothing
but a thin lever to choose how to enjoy your sound today.
Flawless shape, different colors and an amazing sound, the newborn of U-vola™ family has ben
presented at 100% Design, London, 21-24 September 2006.
Perfectly combined with U-vola speakers, this amplifier can always assure an high-end sound
performance.
The renowned designer Alessandro Copetti, after U-vola™ speakers, has once again created
something delicate: a Box. No jokes. If you see it you cannot figure out something heavy. “When
I imagined an amplifier for U-vola™ speakers, I immediately realized that it should not be roundshaped,
but it had to be very simple. The hardest difficulty was giving lightness to an apparently
weighty shape. The combined color, the elegant slits, and especially the unconventional joysticks
are the solution.
Every single detail suggests the user to be delicate, to touch it softly, in spite of its power or its
hard shape”.
The product is designed and manufactured in Italy by Syn Factory srl. The integrated amplifier is
engineered by Pathos Acoustics, the italian manufacurer of high-end amplifiers, known and
awarded worldwide.

Technical

Perfectly combined with U-vola™ speakers, not only in the design, but also in the quality of
sound, U-ONE has been engineered by Pathos acoustics.
U-ONE represents a new solution in its category: in a single chassis is included a preamplifier
and power amplifier, completely separated from each other and provided with their own
individual power supplies.
The preamplifier is purely tube, balanced, pure Class A, extremely low noise, with high intrinsic
linearity and without any feedback. It provides an exquisitely tube sound in terms of
transparency, air, harmonics and refinement… in one word, musicality.
The power stage is a solid state power amplifier, high bias current, Class A/AB in order to
adequately drive every load. It provides the sound with speed and dynamics, without influencing
the tube nature of the sound. The volume control is motorised and remote controlled, the remote
itself is of solid wood. Power supplies are over-dimensioned and stabilised. Selected
components, pure silver signal cable wiring, gold plated terminals, high quality materials, and
refinement at its highest standard are additional benefits provided with the U-vola™ philosophy.
Main specifications
Type: remote controllable integrated hybrid amplifier with tube preamp stage, bridgeable.
Output Power: 2 x 70W @ 8 Ohm, 2 x 130W @ 4 Ohm, 270W in bridged mode (mono),
Subwoofer line output
Inputs: 4 unbalanced (RCA) plus 1 balanced (XLR)
Frequency response: 2Hz ÷ 100KHz ±1dB
THD: <0.05%
Signal/noise ratio: 90dB
Input impedance: 100kOhm
Overall dimensions: 480mm (L) x 168,5mm (H) x 233mm (W)