Technics

SU-R1000 Amplifier £6999 View online review whf.cm/SU-R1000 High-end stereo amplification is one of the most conservative areas of the market when it comes to accepting the march of technology. It is, after all, the only place where valves still have a foothold, six decades after transistors first started to dominate elsewhere. More recently, digital circuitry and digital signal processing have been frowned on by some purists, simply because they are considered complicated and therefore stray from the idealised ‘straight wire with gain’ principle. What would those high-end traditionalists make of the SU-R1000, we wonder? For behind its clean, beautifully constructed exterior you will find a breathtaking range of proprietary technologies that use fresh thinking to crack the high-end amplification nut. This is a fully featured, 150W-perchannel integrated amplifier that comes…