You may not have heard of this company, but one of my favorite local dealers, Ovation Audio, has brought in a lot of this gear from Norwegian company Electrocompaniet. I’ve had a chance to hear both their high end Classic Line and their lower priced Prelude line. I came away impressed by both the sound quality and value!

The Classic Line absolutely competes with products from SimAudio, Martin Logan, and Macintosh, but at more affordable prices. Their Prelude line gives you most of that at even lower price points.

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For those looking to simplify their audio systems, we have this new item from Bel Canto Design. The c5i is an integrated amplifier with built in DAC. This includes 2 SPDIF, 2 TOSLINK and 1 USB input, plus a Line In and Phono MM Input.

Price should be under $2000US and here is what Bel Canto has to say about it…

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