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Test & Technology Valve power amplifier
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                                                           Cost? Who cares. Effort? Huge.
                                                           Work manship? Uncompromising. Result?

                                                           Perfect. And not of this world (any more).



                                                                 e don’t know if the control­  Octave. Just remember the Jubi­
                                                           Wler and the accountant     lee Mono SE, another genuine
                                                           came together at Andreas Hof­  monster, admittedly one with 400
                                                           mann’s laboratory to urgently   watts. Aiming at a similar weight
                                                           advise the boss of Octave Audio   and price range with a 300 B am­
                                                           with a worried smile to take a   plifier, though, is at least brave,
                                                           two­ or three­week holiday. At   if not even a little crazy. Well,
                                                           the Riviera maybe? Or some   Andreas Hofmann – who is actu­
                                                           placid spa resort?          ally known for being a notorious



                                                            “Hence the Jubilee 300 B are a modern
                                                            and uncompromising implementation

                                                            of the probably best amplifier technology“



                                                              To be honest, we don’t even
                                                           know if Octave has hired a con­
                                                           troller at all. But we believe that
                                                           the finance department would
                                                           definitely have had their own
                                                           view on the decision of building
                                                           an amplifier which puts two kil­
                                                           ograms on the scales for each
                                                           generated watt and weighs 60
                                                           kilograms with a mono block de­
                                                           sign – per unit, mind you.
                                                              To put it in a more sober way:
                                                           the Octave Jubilee 300 B delivers
                                                           30 watts per channel, one mono
                                                           block is 24 centimetres wide, 66
                                                           centimetres high and 40 centi­
                                                           metres deep, together both monos
                                                           weigh in at 120 kilograms.
                                                              However, projects of this mag­
                                                           nitude have a certain tradition at

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