Edwards Audio IA-1 stereo amplifier
Is it possible in this day and age to manufacture and to be be able to sell a high quality British made amplifier for under 500Euros? Edwards Audio certainly seem to think so. The latest offering from the British company is the new IA-1 50 watts per channel stereo amplifier.
With it's stylish goods looks and small size the IA-1 offers tremendous value for money, lets take a closer look to see exactly what Edwards Audio have done regarding this new amplifier.
The main design is a spin off from it bigger brothers, with some lessons learnt along the way and is based around an all new class AB, Bi-polar, darlington configured output stage using Sanken devices, coupled with a differential front end and buffered voltage stage. The main PSU consists of a custom wound toroidal transformer with 20,000uF of smoothing. The passive pre-amp section uses an Soundwell volume control and features relay input switching.
So what exactly do you get for your money?
You will find 1 x line level on 3.5 stereo jack and 4 line level inputs on RCA one of which is labelled OPTION, for the forthcoming TRUE 24/192kHz USB card with 24/192kHz Coax inputs as well, this is a state of the art digital input board based on our own software all running on a powerful multi-threading processor.
For those that can't live without a remote control the IA-1R caters for those customers at extra cost.
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