Pathos - Globally Recognised Brilliance
Pathos is known and appreciated worldwide as a manufacturer of high quality amplifiers. These products have received numerous international awards and positive feedback aplenty from the press. Pathos' headquarters have been changed twice within the last few decades, in order to follow increasing demand. There has been a steady growth and the product range has been extended. Pathos is in the middle of a heavy development, which is bringing several new products. It's evolved it's revolutionary INPOL circuit design to convey sound in the best possible way.

The current Pathos factory is five times bigger than the previous one. This allows the company to separate its departments to one specialising in woodworking, another in metal processing and so on. The development laboratory is even bigger, as Pathos focuses more on technological innovations than ever before. Thanks to the new projects and its unorthodox approach, Pathos will keep working towards it's goal of amazing both ears and eyes. For Pathos it's all about passion.

Standard Series - Ubiquitous Reference Standard
To Pathos the label Made in Italy has always been more than just a designation of origin; it's a promise of quality that everyone within Pathos' engineer team remains committed to. The Standard range of components represent this philosophy in droves. From the initial brief through to the finished product; all Standard series components are assembled in-house with the sole aim of reproducing acoustic signals as authentically as possible whilst optimizing the sound experience ever further.

Design Ideologies
After having won over the international audiophile community with state-of-the-art reference amplifiers, to conceive a product with a set price point as the main design limit has been a true challenge to Pathos. The Classic One project was initiated to transfer, in a more affordable amplifier, all the know-how and expertise acquired developing reference products. Classic One represents a new standard in its price category: it success fully blends in a single chassis a preamplifier and power amplifier, completely separated from each other and provided with their own individual power supplies. The pre-stage – or, better, 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.

Sound Performance And Overall Quality
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 in solid wood. Power supplies are over-dimensioned and stabilized. Selected components, pure silver Pathos signal cable wiring, gold plated terminals, high quality materials and refinement at its highest standard are additional benefits provided with the Classic One.

Together with such sound performance and overall quality, the Classic One is offered at a price that clearly demonstrates a philosophy of value for money. This is possible thanks to an aimed design approach, coupled with extremely accurate engineering and superior aesthetic form.

Innovations Within
Pathos used an high quality op-amp to drive the MOSFET power amplifier. It is an ultra low noise, high?linearity and very low distortion op-amp. More definition on the sound and clearer. You’ll immediately appreciate its superior sound.

Pathos used a new volume control with Burr-Brown which is more linear and it can accept up to +/-12V audio signal. In this way it avoids the input saturation when the CD player has high voltage output (5V). There is also a new power supply.

Pathos added a particular electronic stage to protect the power amplifiers against short-circuit on the speaker connectors. This particular network is an high impedance stage that feels the current and save the output stage when a short circuit happens.

Pathos used a new high quality speaker connectors that are completely protected with a transparent plastic, in order to avoid short circuit. And a new stainless steel cover for the power transformer. This new power transformer which can work up to high voltages, so it is less sensitive to the different voltages in households around the country. Pathos also supplies an additional set of spare fuses.

The Clean Look
Pathos use chromium plated knobs and red paduk wood for front panel.

Design Features
The rich heritage of this astute and masterful designer, together with its ever-increasing technical acumen; is conducive to these components featuring a vast array of impressive design ideologies incorporating the latest technological advancements. Some of these include:
– Engineered in-house in Italy.
– Extreme reliability.
– Efficient yet pure class A topology.
– Gold plated terminals to fight corrosion.

Electrical Specifications
– Nominal configuration: two channel class A/AB amplifier
– Expanded configuration: hybrid circuit amplifier with tube input stage
– Continuous power @ 8 Ohms: 2 x 70 Watts
– Continuous power @ 4 Ohms: 2 x 135 Watts
– Input impedance: 100000 Ohm
– Frequency response: 2 Hz – 100000 Hz
– Total harmonic distortion: 0.05 %
– Damping factor: 100
– Signal-to-noise ratio: 90 dB

Physical Specifications
– Length: 500 mm
– Width: 230 mm
– Height: 140 mm
– Weight: 13 kg

Documentation
– Technical sheet

Important Disclaimers
Given the dynamic nature of electronics industries these days; below are listed some very important specifics you need to be aware of.

Brand Authorization And Stock Sourcing
We are a fully authorised Australian dealer of this brand and all stock is sourced through legitimate channels. It therefore enjoys full Australian warranty, backing and support.

Pricing Structure
Whilst we endeavor to offer the best price possible, we ask that if you do find a better price elsewhere from an authorised dealer; please contact us. Also be aware that we regularly conduct group buys and sales, therefore pricing can sometimes be subject to change without notice.

Stock Structure
Being a dynamic store is conducive to our inventory constantly changing. We list only a small portion of our stable online, usually products most popular. Aside from these we also stock numerous other variants and configurations of these products, hence if you don’t see what you’re after please contact us.

Shipping
All our products are shipped with registered and insured postage. Upon ordering you’ll be issued with a receipt, a consignment note via which you can track your order, and we’ll also SMS you photos of the package for identification purposes.

Technical support
This last one we cannot emphasise enough! Please contact us if you require any further information or assistance with the setup and use of this product, especially pertaining to aspects more technical. As we want you to get the very best from this product.