Top Audio Video 2011
Celebrating its
own anniversary as well as Italy’s -- I think it’s the 25th for the company --
Unison Research has issued an exact replica of its legendary Sinfonia integrated
amplifier. This beauty is one of the icons that established the Italian wooden-based
tube-amp look, Unison capping it with handsome metal top plates. The tube lineup consists
of four KT88s, good for 27Wpc class-A performance. Price is €4500.
Everyone in
Italy is going crazy over the country’s 150th anniversary as a unified nation, so
Unison Research calling its new baby the Simply Italy is doubly apt. It also sets out to
prove that you don’t have to go to China to have affordable amplifiers built for you.
The Simply Italy integrated amplifier uses two EL34s to deliver 12Wpc in class A, it
boasts the usual superb Unison Research finish and styling, it can accommodate five line
sources, and yet it sells for €1650. With the evil Euro deservedly sliding down the
toilet faster than a baby alligator in Manhattan, that should translate to a rather
irresistible Stateside price, but I’m not about to be responsible for twisting US
importer Colleen Cardas’s panties in a bunch by guessing what she’ll charge and
getting it wrong. |
