Is this the most beautiful amp......

[cubastreet]

I thought robot vacuum

 

[awkwardbydesign]

Japanese robot vacuum toilet?

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Literally thread crapping now!

 

[kasperhauser]

I still haven't come across a design I like better than this: the HD-1 integrated amp from Margules Audio.

 

[Darren]

I like the HiFi Rose stuff. I like the screens and the cool controls, I like any of the unusually styled stuff. Its beyond my means sadly, but Its good to see fresh design work in a very stale arena.

 

[Furyous]

I still love the current Sugden A21 style and that, for me, is an excellent example of effective and well-executed industrial design. It took a superb, but visually dull amp design and turned it into an object of desire.

From

To

I preferred the original

 

[paulfromcamden]

I understand they won't be everyone's cup of tea but I would happily find room for a pair of proper Altec amps.

Just need a pair of A7s to go with them...

 

[essgee]

Now those are serious power amplifiers.
"Amplifiers should be heard and not seen!"

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

I'm reminded that there's a maxim that says that any newspaper headline that poses a question, can always be correctly answered with 'No'. I think the same might well apply to thread titles.

 

[L_Andy]

I'm reminded that there's a maxim that says that any newspaper headline that poses a question, can always be correctly answered with 'No'. I think the same might well apply to thread titles.

Betteridge's law

 

[JoeJoe]

Hideous.

 

[awkwardbydesign]

Strangely, I love this-

And this-

So picking the most beautiful amp is a bit tricky.

 

[daytona600]

New Powersoft X8 8 channels with DSP driving my 4 subs 8x1600wpc
Old Western Electric 212 22wpc SET Monoblocks

 

[music fiend]

New Powersoft X8 8 channels with DSP driving my 4 subs 8x1600wpc
Old Western Electric 212 22wpc SET Monoblocks

The old Western Electric 212 22wpc SET Monoblocks have the looks of a cold war era torture apparatus.

Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[tpetsch]

New Powersoft X8 8 channels with DSP driving my 4 subs 8x1600wpc
Old Western Electric 212 22wpc SET Monoblocks

Very cool piece of history! ...Put me down as one that likes the way that looks, there's actually no fluff there, it all had purpose.
"this entire massive apparatus represents a single 20-watt audio playback channel, with all associated power supplies, preamps, and control devices."

Western Electric 43A Movie-Sound Amplifier:

 

[music fiend]

Very cool piece of history! ...Put me down as one that likes the way that looks, there's actually no fluff there, it all had purpose.
"this entire massive apparatus represents a single 20-watt audio playback channel, with all associated power supplies, preamps, and control devices."

Western Electric 43A Movie-Sound Amplifier:

My expression "apparatus" was more to the point than I could have guessed.

 

[martin clark]

Old Western Electric 212 22wpc SET Monoblocks

Oh yes.

...in a boiler-plate listing room, one giant horn speaker, a mad, RKO Radio Pictures Serial - style Jacob's ladder arcing-away in each rear corner...

'can our hero possibly survive..? Tune in next week!'

 

[daytona600]

 

[krenzler]

I kinda like the rugged raw look of these.