Air Tight ATC-7 Preamplifier
An amp with multiple control knobs on the front panel, now again. The control amplifier that "we wanted and wanted to make” was such an authentic style amplifier. Nowadays, all necessary operations for audio equipment are integrated into a remote control, and it seems that one trend is to operate via smartphones using WiFi or Bluetooth instead of infrared. While audio operations are being replaced by touch panels or mobile devices, Airtight wants to return to the pleasure of accessing amplifier and operating control knobs directly. Because we remember that manipulating amplifiers with physical feedback was an important aspect of audio pleasure that being lost. For the control amplifier "ATC-7", we wanted to re-create the joy of directly manipulating the sound with our own fingers, so we redesigned the knobs, created a texture that feels right to the touch, and created the ideal knurling feel and rotation. On the other hand, the most important thing for airtight amplifiers is whethe