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06 SE Series

06 SE Series

A quiet word, if we may.

There’s something you ought

to know about the new 06 special

edition Series. We’ve spent

enormous amounts of time

maximising the enjoyment and

value for money you’ll get from

our new range of separates. But

we might have been less attentive

than some people would like

towards the way they look.

Don’t get us wrong. We think

our 06 SE Series separates are

very easy on the eye. Deliberately

understated, you could say.

Certainly not the kind of

components that make an

exhibition of their masculine

physiques or wink their LEDs

seductively in the direction

of strangers.

We leave front-panel pyro-technics

to others. Our irst concern is with

the chemistry behind the buttons:

sourcing, testing and selecting

parts that will convey your music

with warmth, vibrancy and

sensitivity. Balancing experience

and experimentation in the pursuit

of quality and enjoyment. Creating

a sound that keeps getting better

the more you hear it. And provides

a series step up from the original

06 series delivering that sound

for a price that’s resolutely

unpretentious.

One last thing. If you want

audio equipment that’s going

to be noticed, let us guide you

elsewhere. If you want the sound

of your equipment to attract

attention, turn the page.

Sounding different

Single-minded The reason why

we’re able to put things like

pleasure, quality and value irst,

and give the giants of the audio

industry a run for their money,

is that we’re not like them.

Rotel is a family-owned business.

We don’t make MP3 players,

PCs or TVs. We’re specialists.

We make sound, for music and

home theatre systems. And that’s

all we’ve been doing for nearly

half a century. Our engineers

lead the ield in maximising the

accuracy of audio components

within affordable limits. Being

the biggest doesn’t interest us.

Being the best does.

Far-sighted Rotel products are

Rotel creations; we never buy

in and badge other people’s

equipment. That’s because we

source skills and parts with a

global sensibility. Today it’s widely

regarded as best practice, but

we brought together Far Eastern

manufacturing know-how and

European engineering prowess

over 25 years ago. Each product

is designed in Japan but its

prototypes are auditioned

exhaustively by a development

team in the UK. They reine the

sound by substituting parts or

adjusting tolerances. Finally,

when the circuit design has been

optimised, expert production

engineers at our quality-assured

plant in China prepare the product

for manufacture.

Inluential We measure our

value as a company by the value

we pass on to our customers.

It goes back to the early 1980s,

when we decided we didn’t want

to be just another audio company

sacriicing quality of performance

for quantity of ‘features’. We

changed direction and started

producing no-frills components

that sounded twice as expensive

as the price we asked for them.

A new category of audio was born,

meeting the needs of music-

lovers: we call it the ‘affordable

high-end’ category. We’ve led it

from day one and, with the 06 SE

Series, created a new benchmark

that others will struggle to match.

RT-09 The dawn of a new era

of Rotel products. The RT-09 is

Rotel’s irst internet radio. It

connects via wireless for quick

and easy access to thousands

of stations. Plus, the USB

socket for a media player lets

you access your own music.

Audiophile-quality DACs and

components also maintain

high-quality sound for DAB

and FM.

Photography by York Tillyer,

images courtesy of

Real World Records,

www.realworldrecords.com

Balanced Design Concept

“We’ve found that human hearing

is more sensitive than even

sophisticated intruments.”

To us, extraordinary sound

and unexceptional prices are

the natural order of things.

And it comes about because

our engineers practice something

called Balanced Design. This

concept strikes a balance

between the ‘price-no-object’

engineering of high-end audio

brands and the price orientated

approach typically taken with

most mass-market equipment.

Performance and price

in equilibrium.

Balanced Design came about

because our engineers are,

themselves, music-lovers who

nurture their designs like doting

parents. It has just two simple laws:

1. The best-sounding parts are

not necessarily the most costly;

2. No single design element

should be emphasised if it

causes performance in any

other part of the product

to suffer.

And we apply them to four key

stages in the design process:

when we’re engineering the power

supply and the circuit layout, and

when we’re evaluating the product

and selecting parts.

Parts selection Rotel engineers

spend many hours listening to

and selecting electronic parts

from potential suppliers to give

our components the best

reliability and acoustic

advantages. It costs a little more,

but we believe the beneits further

differentiate Rotel’s quality from

mainstream audio/video

manufacturers.

Circuit topology It’s not enough

to simply use better parts. Where

you put them is equally important.

That’s why we rely heavily on

something we call Symmetrical

Signal Trace design. This keeps

each channel’s signal path

identical to the others to preserve

imaging and sound staging.

We also use “star” grounding

techniques wherever possible

to improve performance

(a method of terminating all

ground points in a starshaped

pattern on a single plane that

reduces ground potential).

Critical evaluation We’ve found

that human hearing is more

sensitive than even sophisticated

instruments in the hands of

experienced engineers. We set

up listening sessions at various

development stages, not just the

inal pre-production prototype,

to ensure the performance of

a new model is as good as it can

possibly be.

Power Supply This lies at the

heart of any high-quality audio

equipment, and our engineers

dedicate a large amount of time

designing and testing this vital

component. Everything from the

physical layout and wiring to the

careful selection of smoothing

and reservoir capacitors gets the

upmost attention. And at every

stage of the selection process,

upmost in their minds is how the

changes will affect sound quality.

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