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YBA
Website:https://www.ybahifi.com/
Est. year: 1981
YBA is a French high-end electronics brand founded in 1981 by Yves-Bernard André, an electronics engineer and researcher who had been designing audio equipment since 1971 and worked in a laboratory of the École Polytechnique. The company produces amplification, disc players, converters and network streamers, with simplified circuits and parts chosen for each design as its signature.
Range & what it's known for
The range is organised into several series - Heritage, Genesis, Signature and the Design Line - plus a Personal Hi-Fi line and its own cables. Product types include integrated and power amplifiers, line and phono preamplifiers, CD players and transports, receivers and DACs, which lets a buyer assemble every electronic component of a system within the YBA catalogue. André personally auditions the flagship Signature units before they leave. The IA350 integrated amplifier sits in the upper range, while Signature models form the top tier. Circuits are kept deliberately short, with around eight to twelve transistors per channel, and YBA describes its approach as Memory Free Design.
Who owns it and where it's made
The company grew through the 1980s and 1990s until 2005, when André lost control of it. In 2009 YBA was sold to the Chinese manufacturer Shanling, a long-time partner on its economy lines, and in 2010 the new owner brought André back to rebuild the brand, which relaunched in 2012. André remains the designer. A large share of the components, including capacitors, connectors, resistors, wiring and transformers, are made in France and then assembled in China under his inspection.
The lineup in this catalog
Amplifiers and DACs, priced from about EUR 3,000 to over EUR 20,000.
Who it's for
YBA suits listeners who prefer to buy every electronic box in the system from the same French designer, with matching amplifiers, disc players and DACs in the same casework. Buyers new to YBA usually begin with the Heritage or Genesis series, the IA350 sits above them, and Signature is where buyers go when they want the founder's most elaborate designs.
Range & what it's known for
The range is organised into several series - Heritage, Genesis, Signature and the Design Line - plus a Personal Hi-Fi line and its own cables. Product types include integrated and power amplifiers, line and phono preamplifiers, CD players and transports, receivers and DACs, which lets a buyer assemble every electronic component of a system within the YBA catalogue. André personally auditions the flagship Signature units before they leave. The IA350 integrated amplifier sits in the upper range, while Signature models form the top tier. Circuits are kept deliberately short, with around eight to twelve transistors per channel, and YBA describes its approach as Memory Free Design.
Who owns it and where it's made
The company grew through the 1980s and 1990s until 2005, when André lost control of it. In 2009 YBA was sold to the Chinese manufacturer Shanling, a long-time partner on its economy lines, and in 2010 the new owner brought André back to rebuild the brand, which relaunched in 2012. André remains the designer. A large share of the components, including capacitors, connectors, resistors, wiring and transformers, are made in France and then assembled in China under his inspection.
The lineup in this catalog
Amplifiers and DACs, priced from about EUR 3,000 to over EUR 20,000.
Who it's for
YBA suits listeners who prefer to buy every electronic box in the system from the same French designer, with matching amplifiers, disc players and DACs in the same casework. Buyers new to YBA usually begin with the Heritage or Genesis series, the IA350 sits above them, and Signature is where buyers go when they want the founder's most elaborate designs.
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- CD / SACD players and transports
- Preamplifiers
- Power amplifiers stereo
- Power amplifiers mono
- Integrated amplifiers
- Phonostages
- Streamers
- DACs
