Perreaux VP4

• Exceptional performance
• Super-low noise
• Exceptional flexibility
• App control

$7,499

Perreaux has been innovating in the field of high-end audio for close to half a century, having been founded by Peter Perreaux in Napier, a small town on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island way back in 1974. The company was purchased in 2018 by Edwin Nieman, who moved the company closer to his own business, Kamahi Electronics, which he founded after moving to New Zealand from the Netherlands. Kamahi designs firmware, software, and apps for avionics, industrial electronic systems and scientific instrumentation. Both companies are now located in Dunedin, a small city on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, which is also home to what, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the steepest street in the world — Baldwin Street.

The company’s new Perreaux VP4 Vinyl Preamplifier is innovative not only for its many circuit features, including the ability to operate without mains power and be controlled via an app, but also for the fact that its circuitry can be fine-tuned to deliver the precise load and gain required to suit any moving-coil or movingmagnet phono cartridge on the planet.

But the VP4’s most innovative feature is undoubtedly the fact that Perreaux has built a software/firmware solution into the VP4 that means all this load and gain fine-tuning is automated. If you own a Perreaux VP4 you simply need to tell it what cartridge you are using, and it will automatically create the correct load and optimise the input sensitivity to deliver the best match. Kiwi black magic!