A design landmark, unfortunately fairly forgotten nowadays.

If the console styling was attempted by many after the Lecson units (Marantz "Layla", Sony and a host of others), none managed to come up with something as utterly refined as the british original. Boothroyd/Stuart later went on to successfully launch Meridian and design some more excellently designed units, if somewhat less striking.

The combo was reviewed in HFN&RR by Martin Colloms in october 1977, for an update on the original review. Mr Colloms noted that the AP1X amp had seen major (positive) changes but that there was a problem with the AC1 preamp phono stage, akin to overload and noise.


The specialist of these units can be reached here.