Ars Sonum NEW Filarmonia-SM Integrated Amplifier – $5,250 Hand crafted (limited production) optimized classic design made with very high quality parts, materials, (hand wound) transformers, and more – all lovingly put together by designer/engineer Ricardo Hernandez in Madrid, Spain. The Filarmonia uses a special screen grid regulated pentode circuit and a low 6dB of feedback […]
Ars Sonum Gran Filarmonia Integrated Amplifier – $9,250. Hand crafted optimized classic design made with very high quality parts, materials, transformers, and more – all loving put together by design/engineer Ricardo Hernandez in Spain. The Gran Filarmonia is the culmination of what was learned on the Filarmonia SE and expanded for greater power and more […]
Power Modules Inc. Belles Reference 150A v2 Stereo Power Amplifier: $2,295 US Retail. David Belles’s power amplifiers are well known for delivering a great balance of detail, tone, and musicality and the Reference 150A (v2) delivers that with very good resolution and dynamics… all without the overly detailed, dry and over damped sound that many […]
Power Modules Inc Belles Soloist 1 Integrated Amplifier: $2,995 US Retail. Based on the Belles Reference 150A V2 Power Amplifier, the Soloist 1 Integrated amp adds a simple quality discreet (no op amps) preamp front end to make a very musical and nicely resolving integrated amp. With 125 Watts per Channel into 8 ohm and […]
Atma-Sphere S-30 MK III.1 Stereo OTL Amplifier – $3,990. Good OTL amps are just expensive to make… complexity from the power supply to the number of tubes requires drives up cost, but Ralph Karsten at Atma-Sphere has put together a great sounding hand-wired 30W/Ch OTL that cut no corners in a category where such (OTL) […]
Rega Brio-R Integrated Amp – $995 US Retail. Incorporating a number of improvements (remote control, power supply, new driver stage and more which essentially make it a new design, not just a revised version of the old Brio) over the old Brio3, the Brio-R also comes in the new compact R series chassis in your […]