Van den Hul The Grail MK III.1

The successor improved.

Always striving for the best. That has always been our goal. With that philosophy in mind, we have taken the already highly regarded Grail MKIII and refined it even further into the MKIII.1. At the heart of this evolution lies a newly improved and better stabilized power supply, allowing the entire design to perform with greater precision, stability, and musical ease.

“The Grail” is a truly dulcet phonograph preamplifier, created with ultimate performance and long-term reliability as its guiding principles. From its uniquely designed phonograph stage, unlike any other in the world. to its carefully engineered signal path, every aspect has been developed to preserve musical purity.

Available in both silver and black, The Grail MKIII.1 is designed to complement any high-end system, both visually and sonically.

Feature list:

• A specifically designed phonograph preamplifier section, unique in the world
• Phonograph RIAA equalization with coils only, no sound-impairing capacitors in filters
• Special printed circuit board material with gold conducting paths
• Printed circuit board with dedicated seating to prevent microphonics
• Low-noise moving coil input stage, even with low-output cartridges
• Automatic adapting input stage for moving coil cartridges, no matching resistors needed
• Possibility to compensate phonograph cartridge sensitivity (level adjustment)
• Strictly separated amplifier sections and circuit layout for a very natural soundstage
• All-over ground plane minimizing crosstalk and ground loops
• Two phonograph inputs for moving coil cartridges
• Shielded transformer in an external housing to avoid hum and EMI noise
• Power supply with gyrators for each amplifier section, ensuring very high noise cancellation
• External power supply supports 120V and 240V mains voltage (internally switchable)
• Very sturdy cabinet construction, milled from a solid block of special aluminium

Designed to provide true high-end audio performance, The Grail MKIII.1 delivers outstanding sound quality with nearly every modern phonograph cartridge.