AudioValve puts most of their budget towards the sound quality of their design and components rather than all of the audio jewelry and marketable designs featured by some of the comparable sounding amplifiers on the market. On sound alone it outclasses its price point, as for performance, design, fit and finish it far exceeds our expectations and represents a truly exceptional product at double or triple it’s price category. The newest revision of the Luminare has been adapted to offer 3 gain stages, 10 for STAX, 0 dB in the neutral position for the OTL Output into headphones above 50 Ohms and -10 dB for the OTL Output into headphones below 50 Ohms.

The sound quality of the Luminare is of absolute top reference level for a headphone tube amplifier, delivering great tonality with a perfect open sound-stage, world class 3D image, a noise floor on par with all but the very best valve based amplifiers, and macro and micro dynamics in spades. Their RKV Tube design offers a very low noise floor, low distortions, high frequency range, high damping, very natural musical tonality and wide impedance matching.