Amplifier
Ikarus
“It would make a perfect tool to assess equipment by. If any component is not in the top league, the amps will betray the culprit with surprising honesty. Its other great strength is the speed of delivery. It can keep up with the fastest of guitar runs and tabla rolls with a speed normally associated with single-ended valve amplifiers.”
— ALAN SIRCOM, HI-FI CHOICE, ENGLAND.
FEATURES
Ikarus
The IKARUS started it’s life as an “integrated” amplifier 35 years ago, then evolved into a concert monitoring amplifier .
Sporting our signature construction - sculptured massive CNC machined aluminium case , highest quality connectors, milspec double-sided oxygen-free copper PC Board
it uses a complete dual mono approach in power supplies with separate individual highspeed rectifier diodes with almost 40,000uF of filtering supplies.
FEATURES
PAPPILION
My amplifiers are designed “to get out of the way of the emotional message of the music”. To do this, they must have no sound of their own - be absolutely transparent.
The only way to design audio equipment with these qualities is to have first-hand experience with the fi nest available recording equipment AND playback equipment.
Metaxas amplifiers have been conceived using extensive listening tests with a variety of state-of-the-art ancillary equipment [and the systems of many customers] over a 35 year period
SPECIFICATIONS
Ikarus
FREQUENCYRESPONSE : DC - 5.0MHz (-3dB)
POWER OUTPUT: 50WRMS per channel into 8 Ohms with no more than 0.05% T.H.D
DAMPING FACTOR : Greater than 500 wide band
SLEW RATE : Greater than 1000V/us small and large signal
T.H.D. : Less than 0.05% 20Hz-20KHz
I.M.D.(S.M.P.T.E.) : Less than 0.05%
SIGNAL/NOISE : -117DBV unweighted input shorted
SENSITIVITY: 0.5VRMS in for 50WRMS out (35dB)
INPUTIMPEDANCE : 100kOhms in parallel with 11pF
reviews
Ikarus
"I heard friends describing it as an “alien” or a “cosmic bug.” I’ve witnessed my wife’s girlfriends touching it as if it was a sacred reliquary, and others trying to make sense of it, only to miserably fail. Like a modern art sculpture, the Ikarus projected different emotions to each encounter."
—
Panagiotis Karavitis, (PTA) Part Time Audiophile
fINALE'
Solilquy
Starting its commercial life as the MAS A1 amplifier in 1979, The SOLILOQUY has been continually refined as faster output transistors and better components have become available.
Solilquy
fINALE'
Ikarus
If the words you think of when listening include - effortless, transparent, engaging, holographic, real...then you are close. More than that, you need to “feel” the performance. It MUST move you. The emotion must be compelling.
Ikarus
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