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Upcoming is the incomparable new MONAD line, starting with the unparalleled MONAD A100 pure Class-A amplifier Three versions of the Home Audio line are currently available:
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Dubbed MONAD A100, this incredible new technology will incorporate the now patented Tube Driver BLUE technology into a unique, single-ended Class-A audiophile-level monoblock design, housed in a collector-quality chassis and designed exclusively for the true audio connoisseur.įour versions of the Car Audio line are currently available: Now, in mid-2005, BK Butler is about to unveil the ultimate home audioĪmplifier.
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Technology, Butler Audio introduced the Tube Driver BLUE series of Home Theater amplifiers. Prototype home amplifiers incorporating the now patented Tube Driver BLUE In late 2001, with the successful launch of the Tube Driver BLUE carĪmplifiers behind him, BK Butler decided to unleash a whole new generation ofĪmplifiers that would bring the "live stage" and "recording studio sound" to the Home Theater environment.Īfter receiving an enthusiastic response at the 2002 CES to the first Open-ended (ZERO negative feedback), 6SL7GT twin-triode tube-driven design operating in a near plate-saturated mode continuously, a totally unique load-mirroring circuit and employing no output transformers! This new design not only exceeded the superior sonic characteristics of the original TubeDriver 1500, butĪctually rivaled Butler Audio's laboratory "all tube" reference amps of the time! After many enhancements of the basic discovery were implemented, BK Butler was finally satisfied and designated the now patented circuitry as " Tube Driver BLUE". In the late summer of 2000, all these efforts finally paid off. Often working 18-hour days in his personal lab, it's estimated that no fewer than 100 different prototype versions of this new technology were rigorously investigated and thoroughly tested. With a clean slate, BK Butlerīegan an all-new design that would ultimately incorporate his newly discovered Tube Driver BLUE thermionic technology. Reclaimed all of his rights pertaining to TubeDriver. Shortly after this, in early 2000, BK Butler Phaze Audio/PPI was purchased in late 1999, temporarly ending all further TubeDriver brand production and sales. The trademark "TubeDriver" however, they are not BK Butler/Butler Audio designs and do not share in his original patented technology. In 1999, PPI came out with a line of amplifiers with tubes bearing Phaze Audio/PPI decided to re-design the original Butler Audio TubeDriverĪmplifiers.
In 1998, Phaze Audio saw a great opportunity for accelerated marketĮxpansion and purchased Precision Power, Inc.
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In the lateįall of 1997, Phaze Audio was also granted a manufacturing license to produce Initially granted Phaze Audio an exclusive license for marketing andĭistribution of the Butler Audio line of TubeDriver amplifiers.
TubeDriver amplifiers and Phaze Audio would market and sell them. This time, Butler Audio was approached with the idea that it would produce the Were shipped, a group of veteran mobile sound professionals from Rockfordįosgate, PPI and others, joined to form a new company named Phaze Audio. Shortly after the first production models The introduction of the original Tube Driver 1500 in 1996 began a new era of Virtually all recording artists and sound engineers recognize the inherent superiority of vacuum tube equipment for recording, live sound reinforcement and musical production. With this vast experience and background in what sounds "right", BK knew it was possible to bring all the excitement of the "live stage" and the superior qualities of "recording studio sound" to the consumer audio market.
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BK's designs and products have satisfied the most critical professional clients.
(ZZ Top), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Eric Clapton,Įlton John, Eric Johnson and hundreds more. Professional celebrity users include Billy Gibbons BK BUTLER and BUTLER AUDIO: A Brief HistoryīK Butler has been designing and building vacuum tube related musical