{"product_id":"rogue-audio-metis","title":"Rogue Audio Metis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Metis focuses on sonic essentials, devoting almost zero attention to gongs and whistles. Accordingly, it provides just three line-level inputs and one phono input, one headphone jack, and two sets of single-ended outputs (one fixed, the other variable). Controls are minimalist an on\/off pushbutton, an input selector switch, a volume knob, a balance control, and an IR window for receiving signals from the optional Rogue remote. Finally, the Metis provides a linestage driven by a pair of 6SN7 vacuum tubes the same tubes Rogue uses, though in a different circuit topology, in its more costly preamplifiers. The Metis features a slow start circuit that is said to help extend tube life. Together these factors yield a costeffective, elegantly constructed preamplifier with a very sophisticated sound.  The Metis tonal balance is generally neutral, with articulate though perhaps slightly forward-sounding midrange, extended and beautifully defined highs, and pleasingly taut and potent bass (bass nearly as tight and well-defined as that of good solid-state preamps). Though the Metis never sounds aggressive it's much too smooth and polished for that term to apply neither is it subdued or polite; instead, it has a refreshingly direct and forthright sound that shatters a lot of oldschool tube-preamp myths. In fact, listeners accustomed to preamps that fit the lucid-midrange\/soft-treble\/wooly-bass paradigm will find this preamp's handling of the frequency extremes a revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrequency response 10Hz - 50 kHz +\/- 1dB THD \u0026lt; 0.1% typ, \u0026lt; 1% at rated power Gain Stage 12 dB Phono Gain 35 dB Phono Loading 47K Ohms, 150pF capacitance Rated Output 1 Volt RMS Maximum Output 10 Volt dimensions 18\" W x 12.5\" D x 4.5\" H weight 16 pounds (6.5 Kg) shipping weight 22 lbs (9 Kg)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rogue Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59370601742681,"sku":"1688","price":990.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1066\/5721\/8905\/files\/rogue-audio-metis-1.jpg?v=1789118273","url":"https:\/\/wenwaudio.com\/products\/rogue-audio-metis","provider":"W\u0026WAudio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}