![]() You can still buy a minimalist integrated amplifier without those fancy technologies, or without analog features such as phono stages that take up real estate inside the amp. That split has changed in fundamental ways in recent years, mainly due to the latest digital technologies including hi-rez streaming. I’ve eschewed tone controls and all-in-one boxes and even watts per channel to keep my signal paths short and my parts quality high. ![]() Ever since I traded my last ‘70s Japanese receiver for separates, back in college, I’ve been more of a purist. If you travel back to that time, you’ll find a split between integrated amplifiers that were minimalist and stripped down and optimized for sound quality, and much bigger boxes with all the lights and bells and whistles and meters and, most importantly, big power. ![]() The Bel Canto Design e1X integrated amplifier is yet another modern, feature-filled box in a slim and attractive case-and by modern, I mean in a very different way than twenty or thirty years ago. ![]()
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