The B-475 is the natural progression of the current Densen line and pushes the quality of CD Playback significantly. the Densen design team has focused totally on.
Switching between listening to the CD in the B-475 or an external source, can be done either by a selector switch on the frontpanel of the B-475, or by a push on the Densen Gizmo remote.
This is done via a coax digital input, as Densen believes this is what secures the best digital transfer, and thereby sound.
B-475 adds a digital input, allowing the use of the internal DAC in the B-475 as DAC for an external source like a Sonus system, a Squeezebox or another digital source.
It is further perfected from the earlier designs, and are one of the key elements that secures the extreme high sound quality of the B-475.
Passes trough the advanced pcb layout to the DAC, and further on through the analogue stage which uses Densens unique non feedback class A topology.
The signal comes from the heavily modified CD transport, with external clock control to avoid jitter by using same clock in both sending and receiving end of the datastream.
The B-475 is in all aspects optimised for perfect performance.
Therefore the B-475 itself contains a further 150.000uF of powersupply capacitors, and 10 individual regulations.
The B-475 Superleggera itself contains further voltage regulation, allowing a complete removal of interference between each part of the amplifier.
All in all the 2NRG has no less than 510.000uF in the form of 51 custommade capacitors.
The third transformer supplies the microprocessor, CD drive, display, input selectors and the advance relay driven volume attenuator.
Each audiochannel of the B-475 Superleggera has its own transformer and no less than 200.000uF and rectifying by the use of ultrafast and precise diodes.
The 2NRG contains no less than 3 custommade transformers, each with 2 separate windings.
The powersupply of the B-475 is placed in a cabinet named 2NRG.
This is in line with Densens effort in previous models, where the attention has always been to make a light cabinet, but here it is obviously taken to extremes with the 2 cabinet solution.
The B-475 simply let the music breath more freely, due to the removal of unnessesary weight.
This has made a dramatic improvement of the sound, and where huge high end products normally is associated with dark and slow presentation of music, the words that springs to mind when describing the B-475 Superleggera is words like agile, precise, fast, dynamic and natural.
In the B-475 the huge powersupply has its own cabinet, while the delicate audiocircuit is in the Superleggera cabinet, where everything possible has been done to reduce the weight and remove vibrations.
Densen has with the Superleggera products divided these into 2, allowing the audiocircuit to be totally separated from the powersupplies mechanically, resulting in a dramatic removal of the powersupply vibrations which will smear the signals of a normal amplifier.
The industry standard has been to build bigger and bigger products, with larger and larger circuits and powersupplies, resulting in cabinets both holding delicate audioelectronic and massive powersupplies.
The term superleggera will not be unfamiliar to conneceurs of advanced sportscars, as this Italian term, meaning super light weight, has been used to describe the chassis of some of the best and most famous sportscars ever made.
The first being the B-275 preamp.
The Densen B-475 is the second Super Leggera product from Densen.
Now Densen takes these attentions to details to another level, with the introduction of the Densen B-475.
The Densen powersupplies has always contained several separate supplies, focusing on clean power to all stages of the products, and the transformers have always been custommade.
Over the years this has resulted in Densen using exclusively their own powersupply capacitors which are designed specifically for the circuits they are being used in, instead of relying on standard capacitors.
Densen has always had a strong attention to the powersupplies of their products.
The B-475 is the natural progression of the current Densen line and pushes the quality of CD Playback significantly
