Trafomatic Audio Pandora
Trafomatic Audio Pandora pairs Class A triode refinement with startling dynamic authority: these 40W monoblocks stay whisper-quiet on sensitive horns, then fill the room with clean, unforced scale and convincing instrumental weight. Marja & Henk found none of the usual valve warmth or haze, while 6 Moons reported assured control across dramatically different loudspeakers.
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Nicely Roasted
Sound Quality
90/100
Build Quality
91/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
Clean, powerful and dynamically effortless sound without obvious tube warmth or harmonic coloration.
Exceptionally low apparent noise floor, remaining silent even when auditioned close to highly sensitive horn tweeters.
Maintains convincing control with both 109dB horns and 89dB omnidirectional loudspeakers.
Substantial, thoughtfully engineered construction with proprietary C-core transformers, quality terminals and vibration-conscious chassis materials.
Cons
Premium €24,000-per-pair pricing places it firmly in specialist high-end territory.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 90/100
Reviewers describe a notably clean, quiet and powerful presentation, with little of the warmth or overt harmonic coloration often associated with valve amplification. It appears especially convincing in its composure at realistic levels and its ability to retain musical ease across very different loudspeaker types.
Transparency Resolution
91/100
The review calls the sound clean and reports that the amplifiers remained dead silent even with an ear close to the tweeter and the volume advanced substantially. That low apparent noise floor, combined with the absence of audible distortion on highly sensitive horns, supports a very clear and composed presentation.
Tonal Balance Musicality
89/100
The Pandora is described as avoiding added warmth and spectral coloration, suggesting a controlled, relatively neutral valve balance rather than a deliberately romantic one. Reviewers still found the sound engaging and enjoyable, handling both rough, energetic music and more intimate material with ease.
Dynamics
93/100
This is the clearest standout: reviewers call the sound dynamic and powerful, and found the 40W monoblocks fully in control of both 109dB horns and 89dB omnidirectional speakers. Trumpet-led recordings with demanding dynamic swings were reproduced with ease while filling the room convincingly.
Soundstage Imaging
85/100
At realistic listening levels, the review notes virtual instruments reaching lifelike apparent size, indicating convincing scale. There is little detailed discussion of image focus, stage depth or layering, however, so the evidence is more limited here than for the amplifier's control and dynamic authority.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
91/100
The monoblocks use substantial proprietary magnetics, including a 500VA double C-core mains transformer, double C-core output transformer and a Lundahl input transformer. Reviewers also note strong, inert resin-impregnated plywood construction, vibration-damping finish, quality WBT speaker terminals, balanced and unbalanced inputs, ground provisions, and dedicated 4- and 8-ohm outputs.
Value for Money
85/100
The reviewed pair was priced at €24,000, placing Pandora firmly in a premium specialist-amplifier market. Reviewers do not directly compare its value against competing power amplifiers or make a clear recommendation on whether its asking price is especially compelling.
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Specifications
- Class of operation
- Push Pull DHT class A
- Tubes
- 2x 6N30P and 2x direct heated triode SV 811-10 (SV 572-10) per channel
- Output impedance
- 4 and 8 ohms
- Input sensitivity
- 1.4Veff at XLR
- Input impedance
- 47Kohms
- Gain
- +28dB
- Output power
- 40W
- THD at 1W/1kHz
- 0.2%
- Input
- XLR
- Frequency bandwidth
- 10Hz (-1dB) – 90KHz (-2dB)
- S/N
- 88dB
- Input voltage
- 230V/50Hz- 115V/60Hz selectable
- Power consumption
- 280VA
- Weight
- 32 kg per mono
- Dimensions
- W 340 x D 480 x H270 mm
Manufacturer's Description — Trafomatic Audio
When opening Pandora’s box Greek mythology tells us to expect “Any source of great and unexpected troubles”. Now imagine you must open 2! Even more sources of trouble?
Not when those boxes of Pandora are delivered by Sasa Cokic. Each of these boxes contain one of the finest tube mono amplifiers on the market, presented to you under the name Pandora. Designed to bring you the ultimate musical experience and joy.
Beautifully hand crafted designed housing, technically based upon the Svetlana 811-10 power tubes these mono amps deliver you up to 40 Watts in pure Class A each.
Sonically the Pandora mono amplifiers present a grand palette of musical textures in the best Trafomatic fashion. Bass is tight and fast, the mid-range glorious, the high frequencies liquid and airy.
Features:
Imagings are superbly holographic and the soundstage vastly layered and wide. While sonics are stunning, they will never be in the way of the music’s embedded emotions. The Pandora mono’s are dynamic amplifiers with a firm grip on the beat to convincingly portray musical motion and faithfully capture how live music flows over time. They recover plenty of detail, provide very good articulation of vocals, produce a large sense of space and build their virtual stage on rock-solid imaging.
Pure and elegant in design, circuit minimalism with very high quality parts preserves the primal qualities of reproduced sound and opens up new dimensions for the playback experience.
The Pandora monoblocks run two drivers tubes 6N30P called also “super tube” and two direct heated triode made by Svetlana 811-10. Each amp houses an epoxy resin-potted 6kg double C-core output transformer, 10Kg main power double C- core transformer , one high inductivity filter choke and an interstage transformer for driving SV811-10 tubes all made by Trafomatic Audio
High-level line input transformer LL1592 provide phase splitting with high degree of simetry.
All tubes are with DC heating to improve signal / noise ratio .
Pandora used -3dB of NFB just in output stage ( cathode feedback )
Pandora doesn’t use capacitors in signal way .
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