Thermionic Culture The Ultra Vulture
All-valve distortion unit, flagship/successor to CV20A 20th Anniversary edition
Saturation / CharacterPrice not published
Specifications
- Type
- Saturation / Character
- Description
- All-valve distortion unit, flagship/successor to CV20A 20th Anniversary edition
- Topology
- all-valve/tube, Class-A
- Signal path
- Analog
- Channels
- 2
- Channel format
- dual mono (2 independent channels), optimised for stereo matching
- Form factor
- 19-inch rack
- Powered
- yes (mains powered)
Details
Controls: Triode / Pentode / P2 / P3 settings (from Culture Vulture lineage); Normal/+10dB/Overdrive drive switch and Presence switch (from Super 15); indented panel controls for recall/stereo matching
I/O: Balanced inputs and outputs via specially designed transformers
Notes: No dedicated numeric spec-sheet PDF found (only a manual link) — frequency_response/impedance left blank rather than estimated. Page states qualitatively 'wider bandwidth with more low end extension and high end well beyond 20kHz' and 'lower noise and minimum distortion than previous models.' Builds on the limited-edition 20th Anniversary Culture Vulture (CV20A, which is itself discontinued). Country of manufacture not explicitly stated on this product's page (brand is UK-based; other CV-family pages do state 'Made in England') — left blank per no-guessing rule. Official site thermionicculture.com is currently unreachable/broken (root returns an empty Apache directory listing, product URLs 404) as of research date 2026-07-19; all data below sourced from Wayback Machine snapshot dated 2025-05-16 (and linked official spec-sheet PDFs) of the live Joomla/VirtueMart catalog, cross-checked against the current Independent Audio (US distributor) product listing, which also shows no USD pricing.