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Integrated Amplifiers Sort By: Post DateTitle Publish Date Integrated Amplifiers Advance Paris X-i50 BT Hi-Fi Choice | Apr 22, 2025 | 0 comments

New to the UK, Advance Paris plans to deliver the high life at a low cost... Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Anthem STR Integrated Amplifier Hi-Fi Choice | Feb 23, 2021 | 0 comments

Known for its potent AV components, HFC gets to grips with this rather muscular stereo integrated from Anthem Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Arcam A38 - £1,440 Ed Selley | Feb 06, 2011 | 0 comments

Arcam A38 A favourite among the blind-listening panel in terms of its performance, the Arcam A38 is a solid all-rounder Arcam’s amps haven’t changed much externally since the introduction of the ‘Full Metal Jacket’ range several years ago, but their internal design has seen a fair bit of evolution. In its description of the A38, Arcam draws special attention to the output stage design which, it says, is much less sensitive to thermal conditions than traditional output stages. The issue of ‘warm-up’ of audio electronics is a long-standing bone of contention, some saying it’s of little importance, while others maintain it’s crucial for proper performance. What’s often forgotten, though, is that the temperature of the output transistors can vary by many tens of degrees during the course of a track, as the music goes from soft to loud and back. Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Arcam A38 - £1,480 Ed Selley | May 28, 2010 | 0 comments

Arcam A38 - £1,480 Comprehensive features list makes this amp a star performer Not much has changed with Arcam’s amps in recent years, at least superficially. That’s absolutely fine by this observer, who thought they were nicely thought-out when they first appeared and hasn’t found any reason to change opinion since. The A38 is the top model of three integrateds in the current range and it does many of the same things as most modern integrateds. For instance, it has fully electronic switching and volume control: but you still get a unique push button for each input and a decent size volume knob that is, at least, reasonably solid and generally nice to the touch. Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Arcam SA10 Hi-Fi Choice | Nov 27, 2018 | 0 comments

Completing Arcam’s trinity of new HDA products, the SA10 is the entry-level amplifier and I can’t help but detect a frisson of concern as you read this. After all, surely leaving its review until last is a sure-fire source of disappointment? It can’t be as good as its bigger brother, the SA20, right? Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Arcam SA20 Hi-Fi Choice | Sep 11, 2018 | 0 comments

Arcam has been a British success story ever since it first burst onto the hi-fi scene in the late seventies. From my point of view it has always been a reliable go-to, with products that never fail to perform admirably. The SA20 is one of three units that mark the arrival of the new HDA range. This is the first selection of two-channel components announced since the acquisition of the company in 2017 by Harman International. Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Arcam SA30 Hi-Fi Choice | Jul 28, 2022 | 0 comments

Arcam's premium integrated amplifier embraces streaming sources and slick digital room correction Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Astin Trew AT2000 Plus- £1,740 Ed Selley | May 28, 2010 | 0 comments

Astin Trew AT2000 Plus- £1,740 Impressive sound and connectivity lead the way on this amp Designed in Britain’, says the literature – though construction is actually Chinese. Wherever it was put together, though, this amp offers some impressive material value for money. Indeed, it seems to tick an unusually large number of boxes. Valves, multiroom capability, front- panel MP3 input, balanced input and output, high-grade coupling capacitors (along with some fancy cable, contributing to the ‘plus’ bit of the model name). Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Audia Flight FL Three S Hi-Fi Choice | Oct 03, 2018 | 0 comments

Started in 1996 by electronics engineers Massimiliano Marzi and Andrea Nardini, Audia Flight’s philosophy is to use solid state in an interesting way, and the company’s first product – the 100 power amplifier – sported current feedback design, something that’s shared by its distant descendent the FL Three S. Being Italian, style is also a big thing – what would you expect from the land of La Bella Figura? Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Audiolab 6000A Hi-Fi Choice | Mar 19, 2019 | 0 comments

Audiolab’s new 6000A pays homage to its classic integrated amplifier, but at a new low price Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Audiolab 8200A - £700 Ed Selley | Sep 06, 2011 | 0 comments

Chip off the old block The long-awaited successor to the legendary 8000A is here: Richard Black finds out how it compares to the class of 2011 Audiolab: the brand that launched a thousand hi-fis. Many thousand, indeed. For many years towards the end of the 20th century, the Audiolab 8000A was the integrated amp to own as part of a decent-to-aspirational system and indeed plenty are still doing sterling service. After the success of the 8200CD (see HFC 340), we were even more keen to meet the successor to the 8000A; the 8200A. Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Bel Canto C5i - £1,799 Ed Selley | Nov 30, 2011 | 0 comments

Swell new bel From America comes a switching amp that’s big on digital inputs. Richard Black thinks it might be the most exciting thing he’s heard in a while Don’t be too hard on yourself if you haven’t heard of Bel Canto. We’d had very limited exposure to the firm’s products and only a rather hazy idea about what the range consists of. In fact, the company can sort you out a complete hi-fi system (minus speakers) from its product list, which includes predictable things like a CD player and a handful of DACs, as well as an FM tuner with partly digital processing and a digital output. Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Belles Aria Hi-Fi Choice | Dec 27, 2017 | 0 comments

American brand, Belles (Power Modules Inc. ) is not one we come across often in these pages despite it being around for some 36 years – in fact the last time we saw anything from it was back in issue 325. David Belles has been behind a host of sensibly priced, high-quality amplifiers since 1978, both under the Belles brand and as a talented hired gun for other leading hi-fi companies. His prowess with electronics even played a part in the space race at mission control a little while ago, so he knows all about important signals getting through correctly. Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Bluesound Powernode 2i Hi-Fi Choice | Aug 20, 2019 | 0 comments

With a unique approach to an all-in-one music system, Bluesound’s updated Powernode 2i is just the ticket Continue Reading » Integrated Amplifiers Cambridge Audio CXA61 Hi-Fi Choice | Mar 15, 2021 | 0 comments

The smarter successor to Cambridge's CXA60 Continue Reading »

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