Audion Premier Phono Stage, Premier Silver Night Owners manual

"Premier”

Pre-amplifiers

OWNERS MANUAL

Phono Stage

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations on purchasing the highly appraised "Silver Night Premier" pre­amplifier from "AUDION". Before we discuss circuit topology and design we would
like to introduce you to our company.

Audion was originally conceived by D.G.Chessell following his love of music, and a
long time hobbyist always delving into the depths of various components and
amplifiers. The concept in those early days was to allow people to get an insight into
audiophile high end without sacrificing their home or bank balance. This overall
picture still holds good for most of the current production, with just a few bespoke
built and designed products entering the upper echelons.

In 1986, David was given the position of Technical Director for "Audio Innovations" at
a time when the company had an enviable reputation for sound quality. During this
period and the next few preceding years a friendship flourished between David, and
the initiator of "Audio innovations", Mr. Erik Andersson, one of Europe's top audio
designers. Erik had recently returned to live in his homeland of Sweden and was in
the process of launching the "EDISON Original" as a market leader in Scandinavia.

Audion was established in 1987 and caught the imagination of reviewers for their
top-flight performance and high build quality.

Following on from this, subsequent years saw Audion’s pre-amplifiers continue to
improve evolving into a two box state of the art design, with multiple on board
regulation quality hand built to military specifications. Our Quattro preamp was also
launched and set a standard becoming the ultimate in high-end audio pre­amplification.

Erik in these years flooded the Scandinavian market with affordable Edison Kit's, and
a range of top-flight yet affordable triode amplifiers under the banner of "Andersson".

In 1992 after a few depressed trading years in Europe and the saturation of the
Scandinavian market, a re-launched copy of the "Western Electric" 300B by Golden
Dragon enabled two friends to join together with a base in the UK. To enable a
superior amplifier to be designed and distributed around the world the first joint
product saw the "Silver Night 300B” mono-blocks, with a front-page debut at the
beginning of 1993 in the British press.

The Silver Night’s provided, and still provides, affordable high-end true triode
amplifiers with no-feedback to be available to a large number of fortunate audiophiles
wanting outstanding sonic virtues.

The 300B amplifiers enable affordable true triode no feedback amplifiers to be
available to a large number of fortunate audiophiles and follow the concept of
affordable high end with their outstanding sonic virtues and thus carrying the original
philosophy well into the 90's.