About Us :

Finalé Audio is a new addition to the family. While Triode Lab specializes in the production of the finest triode and low-powered tube amplification, our goal is to appeal to a broader audience of discerning listeners who want the best sound possible at a reasonable cost. To this end, we offer a wide range of high caliber, affordable tube amplifiers, from low-powered, single-ended designs to 100W powerhouses, many of which are priced around the $5,000 CAD mark (and so you can think of us as offering the Grand Finale!).

Like Triode Lab, all of our products are designed and engineered in Canada, and made to the same exacting standards. Visually, our amplifiers have a clean and simple elegance, but their true sophistication is revealed in their sound. While most other tube amp makers invest in the looks and packaging, basically elaborate design features you can see but not hear, we prefer to put out money in high-quality parts and transformers. Please contact us and let us help you find the right amplifier for your system. We are confident that your search for musical truth will end with Finale!

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Our Passion :

And here is a good read about our companies , and our collaborations with our art director/speaker designer Robert Gaboury of Arteluthe Design.

ROBERT GABOURY / Q&A @ 6moons

"I am a designer. If I can focus on designing, I get the opportunity to bring to life new and exciting ideas. We have almost a dozen concepts on the books, some of which are in advanced prototype stages like the Vocé, a bigger version of the Mini and more of a descendant of the Katana than Vivace. The collaboration with Triode Lab has been very stimulating. It is sonic 'haute-couture' but we also share a passion for speakers of the 50s and 60s and we even have a project to bring back value kits based on the JBL and Altec designs of yore. This industry has changed. We need to adapt to survive. I can now pursue projects across multiple brands and not be locked into one single sonic signature which is liberating. "

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/finale/2.html 2016 November

Our designs and concepts :

To slight differential ourselves to our sister brand : Triode Lab.

Our concepts of sound goes more to :

- Ordered Beauty Sound Art Integration - developed by TDF aka Tube De Force (our tube amp service company for last few decades which includes OEM design and consultation on tube amplifiers specific for many hifi and kit brands all around the world), is our design philosophy used in the audio circuitry design to ensure the detailed emotion sincerity of the sound is being delivered to you and your body via your loudspeakers.

- Wide-band Frequency Tube Drive - Our wide band design ensure full spectrum of high definition treble and pounding bass playbacks. Enough and ready for any HD audio sources and complicated recordings. You can say Finale is more performance and spec oriented, over absolute beauty of sound texture over at Triode Lab.

But all our amps uses the following practices :

- Certified Low Noise & Distortion Circuitry - The typical false impression with tube amplifiers are high distortion playbacks, and all sort of hums and noises. Not with all our world class designs in today’s standard. (Most other manufactures still uses design from the past). Low distortion figure is a must on every single amp we make, as well a quiet background / operation.

- Audiophile Designated PCB (AD-PCB)- Especially and important to HIFI audio applications. Thru our experience over 30 years+ in designing PCBs in all levels of audio products. Our AD-PCB arrangements allocates each individual circuitry stages is at its best place. To avoid fewest interference and to ensure a short clean flow of path. This is to yield the most efficient and accurate signal transfer as well to provide a stable / durable operations. Prevention is always better than any later Intervention, it is a prerequisite in high end audio designs.

- Advanced Signal Grounding Technology - By carefully connecting the best grounding points (We just know where thru experience) at each circuit stages to illuminate any unwanted noise and hum at its best, in return the best S/N ratio for a clean, quiet and transparent sound. This is the area where our expertise of skills and experience come in play, with tubes.

- Tube Safe Technology - Other than perfection and quality, we focus large on safety and reliability. Our typical approach is to leave enough safe guard and margins at all appropriate areas in the circuitry to ensure a good durable life time for both the tubes and the amplifier itself. Shall any bad day of luck, our safe prevention circuitry also pays an automatic role of protection to the circuitry, so it does not affect and damage anything downstream. This is similar to ESP and DSC on automobiles, which safe you before you hitting something. Is it bad? No! Even the F1 cars uses automatic / tracking system nowadays. This is why we are one of the most reliable tube amp maker in the world - its not a coincident! You paid more, for both quality and SAFETY / RELIABILITY!

What we achieved :

With all the above - we literally redefined hi-fi tube amp circuit designs into modernization / a evolution of hi-fi tube amplifiers (I have to specific hi-fi applications because there are other tube applications, which aren’t focus in hi-fi) , of 2 channel / stereo realm. 20 years ago when we just started out with our own brand - most people have no idea what we are talking about because their system is far from “high end enough” to tell , despite they thinks the brand names they have/had were good enough, which in most cases aren’t even close (CD is another prime example of 99% of systems weren’t good enough to justify it’s true potential, so the consumer side or the high end crowd really never heard the best of it unfortunately).

But now, post years of 2020, the level of quality sources / recordings are so high to the point almost every system has the ability to show if your amplifier is not good (modern) enough - it’s missing the highs and lows section with a narrower bandwidth , missing the mark and pace of a song (slow transient speed) / low definition / and early distortion and clipping despite it has more power than required for the speakers , sounding flat / uninvolving / deaden / harsh / raw , the bass have no impact, doesn’t dive low enough, and there is no spark nor energy with the music (this alone will disconnect you from the music). It’s barely a playback when tube amplifiers still use the old designs today - which alot is from the era with just full range speakers , there weren’t tweeters or woofers back then, and of course no high definition (and quiet) music sources / recordings like today. But of course - there is nothing wrong with reproduce / and like the sound from the past, it’s another specialty / genre.

Last but not least. Quite a few tube amp manufactures never mention hi-fi / high end really (it was people thinking it’s high end because of high price tag) - if you read the fine print, they literally claims they are bringing back the good / old tube sound to you only. As we are being frequently asked on several questions why the expensive tube amps they brought is clipping so early when they are not even playing that loud, and why the noise-floor / self-noise is high (with today standard of course), why the highs is rolling off so much to the point playing violin is impossible, then why the bass is so slow and muddy, and where is the tube magic people are talking about?…etc.

So 20 years ago we’ve already saw this coming, and started this pioneering revolution on hi-fi tube-amp designs , every single amp from Finale Audio / Triode Lab is a modernized hifi design, and the next future classics.

SHIPPING :

WE LIKE GREEN, and we ONLY use high-quality and safe shipping boxes made out of recycled materials. We always use double boxes with lots of protective padding or cushioning. Conventional foam/box/plastics are not used across the line due to the wide range of available options and upgrades, lowering costs on your side too. (You want more budget goes toward better parts, than the shipping box/packaging).

Anything higher grade will be packaged in custom-made, triple-layered hard carton shipping box with perfect-fit high quality foam. Wood crate is an option, along with insurance, and any heavier item will be shipped on pallets, or by cargo.

WARRANTY :

Although our amps are known to be reliable and rock solid, every amplifier comes with a 2-year warranty, transferable and from normal use, starting from its manufacture date. That does not include the use of wrong/failing tubes, lighting and shipping damage, or any form of modifications.

CARGO :

For greater quantity / heavier weight items, dealers, or you want everything come safe on a pallet - we have 50% export rate with Air Canada CARGO. You or your local shipping agent just have to retrieve it at the local airport. For example, we recently shipped three items to South America - the cheapest courier is $2000. AC Cargo cost only $600.

About Us :

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Sales and Order : sales@finaleaudio.com

Brand Specialist / Audio Advisor : Mr Noam Bronstein - noambronstein@gmail.com

PR Manager : Mr Paul Yoo - paulyoo@finaleaudio.com

Marketing Director : Mr Peter Wolter - peterw@finaleaudio.com

Founder / President (Retired): Mr Frank Ng - sales@finaleaudio.com

Our Lines :

Starting from 2017, our products will be categorized into three lines to couple with the rapid HiFi market to satisfy different customers and markets.