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Exciting news!!!

David will show the new Amp at the NAMM.
1200W are ready for our listening pleasure.

The test team was very delighted about the looks and the sound quality.
It is dead quite and has great tone.

David will send pictures from the show as soon as possible.

Specs???????

Sound clips????????

Prices???????



Can't wait for and details

TobiasMan wrote:Specs???????

Sound clips????????

Prices???????



Can't wait for and details

DEAR GOD!!!

I stopped by to meet our great 'Founder.' David is a very nice guy, along with his wife. I spent quite a bit of time talking with them.

Let me tell you that the wait on the heads is worth it. The first thing that shocked me is how DEAD QUIET the amp is when a note is not being played, but quickly springs to life as soon as you hit the slightest note. It weighs almost NOTHING!

As for the tone: It is nothing short of astonishing. It is easily as warm and punchy as the old brand WT800, but has something really cool going on in the midrange. I don't even quite know how to describe it. It is such a unique character of tone that I've never heard before.

It's late and I'm tired, but I will give a full report on it sometime in the next few days. Rest assured, IT"S AWESOME!

The features of the DNA Helix amplifier include:

Audiophile sound quality with commercial grade construction and reliability
Unique leading edge, integrated class D power amplifier system design with a patented one cycle
control loop technology, delivering 1200 watts of available RMS output power
Compact size and lightweight: 14 inches wide by 12 inches deep by 3.5 inches high; two rack
space height, seven pound weight
Hi-fidelity, low noise electronics with military specification integrated circuits that deliver a rich, warm, solid tone
Solid state preamplifier
Universal international AC power supply connections that operates from 90V AC to 250V AC
Studio quality compressor featuring a hard/soft ratio switch, auto and manual operating modes,
ratio and threshold adjustments, and user adjustable attack and release in manual mode
Aluminum chassis with turned aluminum control knobs
Studio quality DI output with ground lift and front panel level control
Slave output and slave inputs
RCA connection auxiliary Inputs with level control
Foot switches to control compressor bypass, tone bypass, shape bypass, and effects on/off
Dual effect loops, standard series pre tone loop, studio style side chain with adjustable level control
Dual foot switch jacks that use industry-standard two-switch controllers using stereo quarter-inch plugs
Musical Shape Circuit for one knob tone enhancement
Four band active EQ circuit for simple and effective tone control
Pre/post selectable studio quality DI output with front panel level control and XLR jack with ground lift and phantom power protection
User friendly ergonomic layout features: easy to use controls and unique lighted switches grouped by color and color coded for simplicity and ease of operation
Rack mountable
The company is based in McHenry, Illinois and all products are manufactured and assembled in the USA.

That's the one!!! Vuyani and I had a chance to compare the amp before David left for NAMM. The first observation is that it looks solid in person, so the light weight surprises you. The NAMM lighting masks somewhat the pleasing glow from the front panel lighting. Yes, the electronics are perfectly silent at idle. Even with the master cranked we heard NO hiss. Tone wise, David still knows how to design a "flat" control set that is instantly usable. Being an all-new design compared to his familiar gold-panel efforts, we observed excellent power, superb nuance and detail, and highly responsive dynamics. Dialing in modern or old school tones was a breeze as well. More often than not, we cut various Eq bands slightly, rather then boosting, without having to make adjustments to the Master, and felt the "flat" setting was well balanced. There was enough abundant power that we kept our bass's volume controls rolled back most of the night, but we eventually did have the DNS410 absolutely roaring, with neighborhood dogs yelping loudly.

Test basses: Surine 5-string, Lakland 55-94 fretless, Carvin 6-string, "hot" P-bass

Jeff,
how could you stop by and don't tell us that you played the amp already
Let us hear some inside

We were typing at the same time. See above. I can add that when we first played through the output section guts a few months ago, there was no fancy case, and no knobs, switches, or lights to entice us visually. It was obvious then that David was on to something good. After assembling into a finished box, the "it" is still there in spades. We're looking forward to reports from the floor of NAMM, how this cuts through the ambient noise and hoopla. Can you say "Sound Police?"