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Tube amplifiers are famous for coloring the sound they produce. The distortion they produce is predominantly “even-order harmonic”, which the human ear reads not as harshness but as warmth, a quality so well established in audio that it shaped an entire era of recorded music and still drives a market for vintage gear. These monoblocks run a push-pull EL84 output stage with a 12AX7 on the front end, a circuit topology from postwar European hi-fi that remains one of the most respected configurations in audio. The transformers are toroidal, chosen for their high quality and good looks of course. The power button is set with a custom designed and cut stone from chromium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet, or more simply, a Christmas garnet, a synthetic material that appears deep green in normal spectrums of light, and shifts to a bright red under ultraviolet light, which felt like the right thing to put on the front of an amplifier built around the idea of playing with color.
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