Metaxas & Sins solitaire, Manual

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The Solitaire is a straight 150WRMS Stereo Power Ampli fi er or can
be o  ered like the IKARUS as a higher powered [150WRMS] Stereo
Integrated Ampli fi er.
It best embodies the sculptural design and “lack-of-sound”
philosophy of Metaxas & Sins.
After over 35 years of work in the fi eld of High End Audio, from the
design and manufacturing of entire playback systems to the
recording of over 300 acoustic concerts to gain further musical
insights, the last thing that artist-designer Kostas Metaxas wanted
to produce was “another box with transistors on a heatsink”.
Kostas was dreaming of the most spectacular architecture, design
and sculpture he had experienced and wanted to bring that
emotional intensity, daring and seductive beauty to an audio
ampli
fi er.
As a recording engineer, Metaxas also wanted to “voice it” for
extremely realistic recording playback, to be able to reproduce all the
nuance and emotion of a musical performance.
His new SOLITAIRE is the result. Machined from a solid block of
either aircraft aluminium, copper or titanium, it’s totally bespoke and
the modular electronics make it future-proof. Even the circuit boards
can be CNC machined from 1mm solid silver coated clear polystyrene.
From the sensual, organic and striking casework [inspired by the
stunning work in Sports cars of the 1950’s/60’s of Ercole Spada, as
well as the architecture of Hadid, Gehry and Calatrava] to absolutely
every part of the ampli
fi er including the circuit, topology, layout and
casework has been developed by Kostas Metaxas. It is the logical
evolution of his groundbreaking design concepts pioneered in the
early 1980’s.
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