It’s not every day that VTL releases a new product, something I appreciate and even admire.
Their new Lohengri amplifier takes up where the company’s Siegfried amplifier left off, utilizing its higher-powered driver stages and power supply combined with a 400 watt eight-tube output stage.
Five years in development, the new VTL Lohengrin ($100,000) arrives in time for HIGH END Munich 2025. Catch it in Atrium 4.1, room E113.
Here’s the press release:
Introducing the New VTL Lohengrin: Setting a New Reference in Amplification
VTL proudly unveils Lohengrin, a Reference amplifier embodying the next step forward in our pursuit of musical truth. Embodying the nobility, compassion, wisdom, and dignity of its namesake, Lohengrin represents the current culmination of our pursuit of the restorative experience that music alone can provide. Lohengrin is more than just a new amplifier; it signals our ongoing commitment and passion to audio excellence, establishing a new benchmark for musicality and realism. Developed through five years of dedicated research and refinement, Lohengrin incorporates VTL’s extensive accumulation of knowledge and deep understanding of the technologies essential to lifelike music reproduction. Our guiding passion is to craft an amplifier that illuminates the music, drawing listeners closer to the essence of the artist’s intention.
Renowned for modern-sounding designs that balance formidable power with harmonic opulence and intuitive ease of use, VTL amplifiers have long been celebrated for their ability to deliver speed, finesse, and musical agility typically associated with lower-powered amplifiers. With Lohengrin, these often-elusive qualities are elevated even further.
The Lohengrin amplifier features an eight-tube output stage configuration capable of delivering 400 watts, retaining the higher-powered Siegfried amplifier’s driver stages and power supply. By employing tubes—easier to drive than transistors and free from the “current hogging” issues common in parallel designs—the Lohengrin amplifier achieves an ideal balance of power and responsiveness. Its innovative technologies produce a lower output impedance, reducing the necessary step-down to the loudspeaker load and accommodating a simpler, more effective output transformer.
Our Precision-regulated power supplies hold the output tubes at optimal operating points even under demanding loads. Our Wide-bandwidth, heavily interleaved multi-section output transformers ensure seamless, grain-free extension into the upper frequencies. Lohengrin’s zero global negative feedback design, broad audio bandwidth (-1dB at 100kHz), and adjustable damping factor provide flexibility for tailoring to the speaker load and listening preference.
The amplifier’s user interface makes tube operation intuitive and worry-free. Fully automatic bias control and multi-layered fault-sensing systems enhance reliability and simplify the management of the output tubes. Comprehensive bi-directional RS-232 provides control and diagnostics.
To underscore these sonic advancements, we elevated the visual design to a complementary level of refinement. Technical scalability offers applications to other parts of the VTL product range.
Musically, the Lohengrin embodies our philosophy of honesty and engagement. The tonal spectrum is seamlessly integrated from top to bottom with stunning clarity and accurate harmonic structure. The soundstage is precise and expansive, revealing the venue where the musicians perform with astonishing realism. Lohengrin reveals micro dynamics—those subtle dynamic shifts musicians use to express beauty and emotion—with nuanced alacrity. Bass instruments are presented with definition and control. True to its heritage, the Lohengrin presents the weight and authority of the original event with grace and power. The sound is fresh, vibrant, and immersive, drawing listeners deeply into the music.
Building upon our signature foundation of dynamically expressive, authoritative sound, Lohengrin delivers extraordinary immediacy, drawing listeners inward, beyond mere sonic accuracy, toward something subtler and truer: the hidden intentions, elusive emotions, and unspoken truths musicians strive to convey.
US Retail Price: $100,000 USD
Availability: Summer Q3 2025
Company Website: VTL