November 18th, 2009 • Meriden, CT • Red Wine Audio, manufacture of battery-powered purest hi-fi components, unveils Black Lightning high-current battery power supplies.

Getting the best sound possible from audio components requires feeding them a clean and robust supply of electrical current. Yet to reduce costs, many audio components ship with the bare minimum: Cheap and dirty AC Power Adaptors – sometimes called Wall-Worts. To the manufacture, these AC adaptors are "throw-ins.” To you as a music lover, cheap power adaptors degrade your listening experience – probably more than you realize.

Black Lightning is the industry’s first plug-and-play replacement for the inferior stock AC adaptors currently used to power your DACs, phonostages, preamplifers, amplifiers and other audio components.

Each Black Lightning is hand-built and preconfigured to meet your specific power and connectivity requirements. Black Lightning takes audio components off-the-power-grid, completely eliminating the noise and grunge found on all AC power lines. Feeding your components “DC-Direct” with Black Lightning bypasses all shortcomings related to the AC-to-DC conversion process.

“With Black Lightning powering your audio components, you become more emotionally involved with your music, which is what Red Wine Audio is all about,” says Vinnie Rossi, Red Wine Audio’s President. Sonic improvements include:

• More accurate tone
• Blacker backgrounds
• Improved dynamics
• Better defined bass
• A larger soundstage
• More holographic imaging
• Less listening fatigue

Industry insiders who’ve heard Black Lightning are among the believers!

“When we auditioned the Virtue TWO.2 at RMAF with a pair of critically acclaimed 97db speakers, artifacts from the switching supply were immediately audible. Going ‘off-the-grid’ with Black Lightning took our amplifier to a new level entirely – smoother, more dynamic and clear as a bell. It made me a believer.”

Seth Krinsky, Virtue Audio

“I’ve run Black Lightning on a number of amplifiers and DACs in our store. In all cases the sound quality improved across the board: Markedly less grainy, better imaging and bigger soundstage, cleaner tighter bass and improved dynamics. I highly recommend Black Lightning as a cost-effective way to get the full musical potential out of your components.”

Ken Ball, 32ohmAudio

Black Lightning fully automates all battery-related processes

With Red Wine Audio’s proprietary SMART board (SLA battery Monitoring and Auto Recharge circuiT), all battery-related process are monitored and fully automated. So you can enjoy your music, and let SMART do the rest!

You can power more than one component from a single Black Lightning

Every Black Lightning is custom configured to meet your specific needs. So depending on your gears’ voltage and current requirements, it’s possible that Black Lightning can be configured to power more than one audio component.

In some cases, Red Wine Audio can even modify audio components to bypass their internal power supplies and feed them directly from Black Lightning. “The more components you take off-the-grid, the better your music will sound,” adds Rossi.

Volume shipments begin this month!

Black Lightning Series 10, starts at $625
Black Lightning Series 12, with larger / more batteries to power components requiring higher voltage and / or additional capacity, starts at $825
About Red Wine Audio

Red Wine Audio is the leading manufacturer of battery-powered stereo hi-fi components, meeting the needs of discriminating audiophiles and avid music lovers.

RWA’s award-winning product line includes the Signature 30.2™ stereo amplifier, Signature 70.2™ monoblock amp, Isabella™ vacuum-tube preamplifier, Isabellina™ digital-to-analog converter with USB input, Isabellina HPA™ headphone amplifier / DAC with USB input, iMod™ modification for Apple® iPod®, Black Lightning™ high-current battery power supplies, and purest hi-fi speaker cables and interconnects.

Vinnie Rossi, company founder, leverages the benefits of high-current SLA battery power so his entire line of audiophile stereo components run off-the-grid, resulting in an emotionally involving musical presentation. All products are proudly designed and manufactured in the USA.

Red Wine Audio • 50 High St., Unit 2B • Meriden, CT 06450 • USA
Tel: (860) 398-5385 (8AM to 5 PM EST M-F)
http://www.redwineaudio.com

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