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- Aug 10, 202625% CONFIDENCELow confidencefrom the source
Goldmund Telos 9800
- Reported August 2026 (StereoNET August 10; The Absolute Sound August 27); The Absolute Sound gives a suggested retail of $990,000 per pair with two pairs in transit to North America, while StereoNET gives 400,000 CHF per unit (about US$500,000)[2][3]
Notable features
- Goldmund's Telos 9800 is a two-chassis mono power amplifier delivering 1,560 Wrms into 8 ohms, building on the Telos 8800; for the first time the power supply and amplification stages sit in separate, interconnected enclosures[1][2][3]
- Uses next-generation MOSFET output devices, in-house transformers (10 kVA per The Absolute Sound, 9.7 kVA per StereoNET), a 648 mF capacitor bank and a new SoftStart circuit[1][2][3]
- StereoNET says it is stable down to 1 ohm (4,180 Wrms), and adds Goldmund's Leonardo phase-correction processing and RCA/XLR analogue plus S/PDIF inputs[2]
- Designed with Cecile Barani; grey or black finishes with a single gold plate at the junction of the enclosures[1][2][3]
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- [1]25%goldmund.com/power-amplifiers/telos-9800-power-amplifiergoldmund.com· Posted Sep 14, 2026· Starts Aug 10, 2026 ✓· 35% of score
No source states a release or shipping date for the Telos 9800 - Goldmund sells it through dealers on request. This is the ANNOUNCEMENT date, not the release: StereoNET's[2] introduction piece of 10 August 2026 (https://www.stereonet.com/news/goldmund-drops-a-sonic-monolith-telos-9800), which says only that two pairs are 'in transit' to North America.
- [2]78%Goldmund Drops a Sonic Monolith - Telos 9800stereonet.com· Added Sep 15, 2026· 35% of score
The page could not be fetched, but StereoNet's own headline reports the same Goldmund[1] Telos 9800 reveal, though no exact publish date is given to corroborate timing.
- [3]82%Introducing the Goldmund Telos 9800theabsolutesound.com· Published Aug 11, 2026· 30% of score
The page could not be fetched (403 Forbidden), but The Absolute Sound's own headline, "Introducing the Goldmund[1] Telos 9800," published August 11, 2026, predates the pin's stored September 8, 2026 date by about four weeks.
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