Commander II

Starting at $4,000

Experience music from a completely different and new perspective with the Commander pre-amplifier. Timbre, harmonics, and tonality bring naturalness to your system so that your favorite music is rendered with a delicacy, transparency, and resolution that has never been experienced before.

Customize your Commander

Level I

$4,000

Includes quality parts, some of which are cryogenically frozen to decrease noise.

Level II

$9,000

Improves upon the already impressive performance of the base model with Bybee AC purifiers and top-of-the-line Rike capacitors, with copper foil polypropylene paper-in-oil, for output coupling capacitors.

Level III

$18,000

Improvements to Level II include all Vishay “naked Z foil” resistors in the entire signal path, cryo’ed Furutech IEC, Cryo’ed Cardas input and output RCAs and XLRs, Cryo’ed tubes, all PCBs and wire have been cryogenically treated, Bybee AC purifiers on all 3 AC legs, Vishay “naked Z foil” resistors for the series resistors on the shunt style Khozmo attenuator.

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Technical specifications

  • Gain 16db

  • Frequency response +0/-0.1db from 2Hz to 20kHz

  • Noise -92 db, 35uv wide band

  • Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): at 1k or at 20k 1.5v out = .05%

  • Max Output = > 10v

  • Channel Separation = 82db at 1kHz

  • Input Impedance: 25k Ohms nominal

  • Output Impedance = 200 Ohms

  • Inputs: 3 pairs RCA unbalanced, one pair XLR unbalanced, one pair Tape-in, one pair Home Theater Bypass RCAs unbalanced

  • Outputs: 2 pair variable RCAs unbalanced, one pair variable XLR unbalanced, one pair fixed output RCAs

  • Operating Voltage: 120V, 240V at 50 or 60Hz

  • Dimensions: 16.75” x 15” x 6.25”

  • Shipping weight 20 pounds

  • Remote Control Functions: Volume up/ down, mute, polarity flip, H/T, aux 2, aux 3, aux 4, XLR input

Interested in the technology?

Read the Commander White paper for full details and descriptions of the revolutionary technology within the Commander.

Commander Owner’s Manual

For more information about the Wells Audio warranty, regulatory compliance, safety, operation, and care of your product, see the Commander Owner’s Manual.