Samsung Bringing Tubes To Their HTIBs & Docks

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Something I never thought I'd see in a HTIB much less a Samsung HTIB.

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It looks like Samsung might be trying to spread things out a bit before the torrent of releases at CES 2012 next week. Today the company has announced two new audio docks and three home theater in-a-box systems. Both of the docks work with iOS and Galaxy S devices (apparently at least one Samsung division is willing to support the Galaxy S), with support for flash drives and Bluetooth audio as well. The DA-E670 dock has 40W of power while the higher-end DA-E750 (above) has 100W of power and adds Samsung's new vacuum tube hybrid amplifier technology.

Samsung is bringing the vacuum tube hybrid to one of its new home theater systems as well. The 7.1-channel, six speaker HT-E6730W Blu-ray HTIB offers wireless rear satellite speakers in addition to the hybrid amplifier.

 

[highfigh]

Something I never thought I'd see in a HTIB much less a Samsung HTIB.

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If it's a HTIB, which are known fro hitting low price points, you can bet that the tubes are in the preamp stage since a tube output stage would not only require high voltages (bigger transformer) but also an output transformer. Good iron is expensive.