Icon Audio Stereo 40 MkIII Valve Amplifier

Valve amplifiers are strange and wonderful beasts, but to say they're making a comeback would be a severe understatement!  Despite transistor or 'solid state' amplifiers all but replacing them a few decades ago, the valve method has been seeing increasing popularity in the last few years. And it's no surprise - it doesn't matter how far transistor radios have come - they have yet to fully replicate that warm, lush and open sound that valve amps provide. They may not be able to best them in terms

Let's face it - hi-fi is sexy. Music is sexy, and high fidelity music is even sexier. Decades ago, beautiful women posing with turntables, vinyl records, headphones and wireless radios was very much a thing, and that trend has continued to this day (.... mostly with glamour models, admittedly!) and why is that? Because hi-fi is sexy! And setting the mood with it is easy too - you just have to get the components right.

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