Siemens V276 / U273a 60s

Fully Recapped (and working like new) vintage Rack with 4 Sitral Modules, 2 amazing sounding pre's and 2 compressor/limiters sounding like butter. Nothing is made to these standards today!

"The 1960's Siemens Sitral consoles were some of the first discrete transistor consoles manufactured and are closest in sound to the wonderful tube based Siemens/Klangfilm consoles. According to the late engineer and audio historian Oliver Archut, the Beatles used Siemens Sitral A consoles while mixing most of the Beatles films in the 1960's. For comparison, just one V276 preamp in the 1960's cost more than a VW Beetle, and an entire Siemens Sitral console cost more than most houses. As far as build quality, sound quality and craftsmanship the 1960's Siemens consoles are arguably the finest discrete consoles ever manufactured: All the switches are gold plated, all the transformers are custom wound and shielded Haufe transformers, and every single stage of the console is balanced and fully discrete. In the 1950's and 1960's Siemens was to consoles as Neumann was to microphones. 

The excellent sounding 1960's Sitral modules were the basis for many Neve designs, including the included U273 limiters. To quote to Oliver Archut: "In 1960, Siemens introduced the U273 the world’s first solid state compressor.  There is a dispute over whether or not Neve based their 2254 compressor on this module.  There are striking similarities to the schematics but one of the main differences is that the Neve uses Marinair transformers while the U273 used Haufe.  The Siemens U273 is one of the best sounding transistor compressors ever made." Although Neve consoles based some of their designs off of Siemens modules, the 1960's Siemens consoles used arguably higher quality switches and like their tube predecessors - a fully balanced signal path - including fully balanced switches, and fully balanced 600 ohm attenuators."