NEW for 2021! The United Home Audio Ultima5 Audiophile Tape Deck

The ULTIMA5 Audiophile Tape Deck
Like all UHA decks The Ultima5 can be configured as a one box deck, or with the optional Outboard Power Supply option at $6900.
Add a DC powered Outboard Power Supply (OPS-DC) to the ULTIMA5 Deck.
More Info: NEW! The UHA Pure DC Audiophile Tape Deck Outboard Power Supply (OPS)

Recording Options:
1.) No Recording, Optimized for Playback Only = Free
2.) Stock optimized recording = $1500 New Tascam Record Head – $500
3.) UHA Proprietary Recording head and recording system = $3000
4.) Ultima5 Top Of The Line Recording System = $4500

The Ultima5 Tape Reproducer features an all new head amp design employing new electronic components that have just become available on the market.
This is not a 40 to 60 year old tape deck with circa 1960 head amps featuring “Sansui Receiver” type electronic components and design.

All new UHA ULTIMA5 Preamp Design.
Exciting new component parts have allowed a sonic breakthrough on the ULTIMA5!
The new ULTIMA4 preamp was a step back and all out assault on what could be accomplished with the output of the finest 1/4″ tape head in the world and a preamp designed specifically designed for the new UHA tape head. It has been 3 years in development and the work of two high end audio engineers, there have been several configurations that lead to a breakthrough in design that resulted in the ULTIMA5 Preamp.

Soaring crystal pure highs, dynamic midrange forces, and subterranean hyper pure bass notes that will send your system to new levels of performance. The type of sound that only tape can produce has now gone to a new level.

The ULTIMA5 is the complete package, a highly stable tape transport with all DC motors for the ultimate in speed stability and the best dedicated supporting playback components available.

This gives that last measure of purity noticeable in the upper midrange and high end. The Pro Tascam deck we chose for the UHA-HQ decks allows for a signal cable from tape head to the preamps of only about 3″. This ultra short signal path further cuts noise in the audio signal path. We use “single crystal” double shielded cable to give that last layer of a quiet pure signal off of the tape head.
This along with the new Ultima5 preamp provides the ultimate in dynamics from the highest to the lowest frequencies.

Here are just some of the features on this deck.

1.) All New Pure Class A and Fully discrete gain stage circuitry.

2.) New high dollar voltage regulators designed to work specifically with the new UHA Pure Class A circuitry.

3.) Each gain stage has it’s own power filtering capacitors for even delivery of filtered power.
4.) New high capacity diodes.
5.) New grounding system, (signal and also chassis grounds) that significantly reduce noise.
6.) The new UHA Tape Head for both recording and playback.
These heads are made only for UHA and cannot be purchased for any tape deck. The UHA playback head is low output to employ less windings resulting a cleaner high end than other tape heads can generate.
7.) Very short signal path between the tape head and the head amps reduces noise.
8.) New Mu-Metal shielding at critical points inside the deck reduce noise. The tape heads also sit in a mu-metal shielded enclosure.
Tape heads are optically aligned and bolted to the headblock so they will stay aligned for good.
9.) New internal wiring.
10.) New Furtech XLR’s and WBT RCA’s.
11.) New toroidal power transformer in the deck just to drive the new head amps.
Many more specific audiophile components, parts and philosophies were used in the Ultima4 deck, just too much to list…

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