Red October XL - SE

The Red October XL Special Edition (SE) is our flagship Personal Audio Tubed Integrated Amplifiers, providing our example of true 300B DHT/SET Sound. This is a sound true to source and without the warm euphonic signature of 60s HiFi being midrange centric. It’s a sound that goes back to Western Electric, where spatial cue held as much import as tone. Red October XL Special Edition leverages all we have known and learned from the Red October pushing our performance targets even further.  For several years we have been quietly developing the next generation of transformers. These include new outputs, power and input transformers; each optimized to increase the performance of the Red October circuit.   Red October XL SE includes the new Filament regulation and inclusion of 4pin XLRs SE - The inclusion of filament regulation via C, L, C, R, C filtering has resulted in a 25% reduction to the SINAD (ambient noise floor). This improvement came about with the development of custom filament cho