Verdant Integrated Amplifier

Sixty watts per channel of pure Class A into eight ohms. It runs warm because Class A always runs warm — that is what the heatsinks are for, and why the top plate is machined, not stamped.

A discrete R-2R ladder DAC, no oversampling, no digital filter. Analogue VU meters that are actually driven by the output stage.

• 60W/ch Class A into 8Ω, 100W into 4Ω
• Discrete R-2R ladder DAC, 24-bit/192kHz
• Toroidal transformer, dual mono
• XLR balanced + 3 × RCA + optical + coax + USB
• Illuminated analogue VU meters
• Machined aluminium, 14.2kg