Holo Audio Serene KTE

Serene is a preamplifier from HoloAudio. Serene adopts a fully balanced structure. The left and right channels completely separated form a fully balanced structure. Each channel has independent amplification modules to complete the buffering and amplification functions.

KTE Serene – This is Kitsune Tuned Edition (KTE) model of the Serene Pre-Amplifier note: this version includes a CNC remote control, Holo Audio Caps, Flatwire Otype transformer, AudioNote Kasei Caps, Mundorf Evo Gold, Elna Silmic2, Nichicon Muse.

Serene is not just a preamp. It is matching the Holo MAY perfectly! So by function, it’s nothing particularly special at first glance. Fully balanced amp. And each channel has 2 discrete amp, one for buffering and one to amplify. Jeff Zhu has put tremendous amounts of time to develop this amp and has researched a way to get more detail and natural sound from a discrete transistor based amplifier. This is more comparable to tube sound however with better detail retrieval.

We have chosen specific transistors that have high performance of thermal character. So with a large amount of these transistors we have made an amp that performs extremely well by design. As we have said before, the Serene has discrete amp modules. Each module has about 50 transistors per module. This ensures superior linearity. In a tube amp, the more tubes improves linearity, but how many tubes are considered reasonable? The amount of transistors in the Serene is very high for many discrete amplifiers on the market. This is key for its performance, sound signature, albeit a bit more costly… we think one might agree it is well worth it.

Premium grade components have been carefully chosen to deliver the best possible sound signature that Holo Audio is well known for. For an example; Quality Holo Audio Caps are used and our most preferred after testing many other choices. Also a quality O-Type transformer is used for optimum audio performance and of course is properly shielded from surrounding components. Each part of this circuit design has been well sorted out and specific components paired for optimal audio performance.