Fredrik Lejonklou started his career as a Hi-Fi manufacturer with RIAA steps. Kinki was the first, a pure MM. It has now expired and was eventually replaced by Gaio, which we wrote about when it came in 2013, and the slightly more inexpensive Slipsik. We wrote about this in its sixth incarnation in 2015. But we are still in the segment moderate HighEnd in terms of price.

It is a distinctive feature of Fredrik Lejonklou that he constantly comes with updated versions of his designs. And the old ones can almost always be upgraded to the latest version. Lejonklou has until recently adhered to MM constructions. Much of the reason for this is that he is of the opinion that you must have expensive MC-PUs in order to make them to sound good.

Dual mono

Some years ago, Lejonklou's range was expanded to include amplifiers. And here he is different from the amount of betting on dual mono constructions. And then it's not the power amplifiers I'm aiming for, but mono block preamps. The Sagatun preamplifier is not only available as a conventional stereo preamplifier, but also in a monoblock variant. This is very unusual - on the move I do not come across others who supply mono preamps. Not if I'm slowing down either, by the way.

But Fredrik Lejonklou asked the question: " You make power amplifiers in mono, why not pre amplifiers?"  

What allows Lejonklou to deliver a dual mono preamplifier and still maintain reasonable functionality is that it is an internal linking of the control signal that makes one of the preamplifiers operate as masters, and the others as slaves. Or "Servant", which Lejonklou has chosen to call them. And the concept is not limited to stereo - here it is open to operate with as many channels as you want in a home theater or multichannel music setup.

SINGularity

The reason I stayed so close to the unique mono preamps Sagatun in a News article about Phonostages, is that it is obviously these monoblocks that were the foundation of the SINGularity mono-concept. For this are also monoblocks, this time in the form of MC phono stages

The SINGularity cabinet is made of 100% pure copper. Each channel has a power supply consisting of two swich-mode power supplies. The PU load has 13 pre-stored values ​​and others can be made to order.

SINGularity's development work started in 2011 and was completed in 2019. Lejonklou is a perfectionist. The first edition was launched in April 2019, and already three months later version 1.1 was in place. Then three resistors were switched to versions that according to Lejonklou sound better. And version 1.0 can of course be upgraded to 1.1.

SINGularity is by no means cheap. It costs SEK 180,000. Per channel…

Entity

Then we have come to the unit that is the cause of this news article. For the work of the extreme SINGularity has borne fruit, and these fruits are in a surprisingly moderate price range, especially after becoming used to SINGularity's price level.

Entity is simply a stereo version, where Lejonklou has taken both circuits to twin SINGularity and housed in a simpler, single chassis, a cabinet sourced from the less expensive MM designs. Also, the power supply is taken from Slipsik 7. But although the designs in the circuits are the same as in SINGularity, the component quality is not equally high. For Entity he has used some of the components that have been filtered out for the top models. Thus, the cost can also be quite different from that of the flagship models.

The price has not been set exactly yet, but Lejonklou suggests that it is around one and a half Slipsik 7. That is, just under twenty thousand SEK, approx. 5% of the price of a set of SINGularity

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