Cyrus 40 AMP

◼ Integrated amplifier ◼ £3995 ◼ Cyrus Audio was founded in 1984 as Mission’s electronics sub-brand before becoming independent; its first products were a pair of affordable integrated amplifiers, the classic Cyrus One and Two. These were excellent, and proved successful enough to establish strong foundations for the brand. They also set the half-width physical template it has become synonymous with. That first generation of amplifiers remained on sale for the best part of a decade before they were replaced by the Cyrus 3 in the early ’90s. This was a more sophisticated and upmarket design, but it is arguably most notable for its use of an unusual inverted die-cast casing design. This classy and clever casework has been used on pretty much all of Cyrus’s core hi-fi products since…

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