Bel Canto Design’s new e.One line is designed to meet one goal: to offer a complete line of the highest performance audio equipment available.

 

The development of the e.One line represents a synthesis of the knowledge gained over the past 15 years in defining and perfecting high performance audio equipment at Bel Canto Design. Taking stock of the current available technologies and applying them intelligently brings remarkable levels of performance in this new, compact, line of audio equipment. Each product represents a new level of audio realism and performance.

With the e.One line we prove that smarter is indeed better.

 

Bel Canto’s tradition of innovation and performance in modern audio technologies began with the broad acceptance of the eVo analog switching amplifier technology. The e.One series continues the evolution of performance audio technology by bringing even higher levels of performance, efficiency and flexibility in a compact and cost effective package.

 

The foundation of an e.One audio system are the power amplifiers which provide the power to energize your life with music. These amplifiers use the best switching amplification and power supply technology to provide audio realism that has been largely missing from the experience of most music lovers. Bel Canto has based these new amplifier developments on the later generation of technology from the ICEpower group. We have evaluated and implemented this technology using our years of experience in developing and producing the eVo amplifiers. This experience has insured that our design of the e.One products allows full expression of the remarkable performance potential promised by this technology.

 

All of the e.One amplifiers utilize a common technical base, starting with the power supply topology. The foundation of any electronics product is the power supply and the e.One amplifiers utilize the latest switching power technology to provide a solid, fully regulated power source to build on. When coupled with the compact and efficient fully-balanced analog switching amplifier the e.One amplifiers deliver unprecedented sonic performance through the audio band.

 

The music emerges with great integrity and subtlety from a silent background, untouched by the 50-60Hz related residual inherent in traditional, massive, low frequency transformer-based amplifier power supplies. Removing this low frequency residue reveals a purity through the mid frequencies that simply sounds like music and the regulated supply liberates the low frequencies, seemingly adding an octave or more to your loudspeaker’s performance.

 

Careful implementation of the electrical and mechanical design insures that signal integrity is preserved:

No unnecessary circuitry, components or complexity is added to detract from the musical message that these amplifiers can convey.

 

Compact mechanical design insures minimal intrusion of mechanical resonance effects.

Careful choice of connectors, wiring harness design and termination quality insures both superb musical transparency and long term reliability.

 

Uncompromising design choices and performance levels in the e.One control preamplifier and source components provide full e.One system solution options. As with the power amplifiers the power supply development was given particular care. A common solution was developed for these platforms using a custom high-isolation, magnetically shielded power transformer working into a soft switching rectifier stage and high capacitance, high current smoothing filters. These filtered stages drive rugged first stage regulators to supply each board with low impedance, low noise initial supply voltages. Isolated Analog and Digital supplies insure minimal noise coupling between digital processing or control and sensitive analog amplification stages. Inductive input AC filtering is implemented to reduce the sensitivity to AC line noise influences.

 

The preamplifier, DAC and RIAA stage boards use local second and third stage regulators that are optimized for low noise and broad bandwidth. Controlled impedance operation of the supplies is assured from DC through 100 Megahertz using 4-layer PC board design and optimized multi-stage decoupling. This insures that the high performance analog and digital processing circuits operate in the perfect environment. Care is given to prevent noise or impedance peaking within this broad bandwidth. These measures prevent incorrect operation in the RF rich environment of the modern home, office or studio where this equipment will be used.

 

Each control and source component uses the best technologies available to provide the best technical and audio performance solution possible. The compact size of the e.One line insures that each component is optimized for minimal signal path length and maximum audio signal performance. This design approach permits us to best approach our goal of minimal intrusion on the original signal, getting you closer to the original performance and letting the music speak for itself.