Is there a clear definition of what "Integrated" means?


Driver / input / output stages

Phono stages

Tone controls, source selections, balancers

 

Amps can have all or just some of these.

Is there one thing that must be included to be called an integrated?

 

clustrocasual

I was always under the impression that all a unit had to have to be integrated was an input stage and an amplification (output) stage and thus would include a volume control pot.  But I could be wrong--I often am. 

@soix but what constitutes the "pre-amp"? Any kind of driver or input stage that increases the signal before the output amplification? And a variable resistor which modulates the grid of the input stage ie volume control pot. ?

 

 

but what constitutes the "pre-amp"? 

Who cares???  If you have an amp that has a volume control it’s an integrated amp. It matters not if the preamp section is active or passive, it’s still an integrated amp.