Mr Brett's review:

I came back from the weekend to find Tom had setup the new Cyrus Pre VS2 and 6Power with the rather difficult Dynaudio Contour S1.4 and I'm shocked at how well this little 50 watt power amp drives these beasties.At $1400 it has to represent one of the best value amp on the market. With the right speakers the prospect of biamping say the PMC FB1's is quite alluring.........

The Maia is an 85 watt per channel high performance audio power amplifier housed in the Rega custom built extruded aluminium case. The amplifier has a fully protected output stage with DC and electronic thermal protection, and a power monitor for both transformers. High quality Evox capacitors have been used in the signal path throughout. The Maia uses the Rega "common base driver stage" circuit design. Rega used circuit modelling and listening tests to design this amplifier resulting in superb reliability and exceptional sound quality. Sanken 200w output transistors are used in a high current output stage and will drive the most awkward of speaker systems. The power supply uses two generously rated toroidal transformers with 28,200mF of parallel connected smoothing capacitors, which will provide enough current to drive the hardest of loads.

The Exon is a high performance symmetrical circuit power amplifier housed in the new Rega built extruded aluminium case with heat sink. Rega has improved on the original Exon power amplifier but still kept the same level of sonic performance and synergy as the original. The Exon Amplifier has a fully protected output stage with DC and electronic thermal protection and supply monitor for both transformers. High quality Evox polypropylene capacitors have been used in the signal path. The power Amplifier uses a fully symmetrical circuit topology throughout, with a low distortion high linearity and bandwidth common base voltage amplifier driver stage. This type of circuit topology will provide the necessary voltage swing, to enable the Exon to drive the speaker system with the minimum of distortion. Four sanken 200 watt output transistors are used in a "triple" high current output stage, thus enabling the Exon to drive the most awkward of speaker systems. Circuit modelling and listening tests have been used to give the highest level of sonic performance and reliability.

Power amplifiers at this level of performance are more usually behemoths of iron and unnecessarily flashy styling. The Mono X is a dynamic mono amp conservatively rated at 150 Watts. However the dynamic power of the amp is capable of burst output (such as occurs in all music programmes) of over 1500 watts.

From Youtube...
Snap! The Power

From Wikipedia...
"The Power" is an electronic pop hit song for the group Snap! from its album World Power. It was released as a single in 1990 and achieved great success in many countries. It is particularly known for its hook "I've got the power!".

Anthony Michaelson, the arch lord of english amplifiers, cradles his new baby in the hidden wood lined backroom.
The devices attach in an unexpected manner to the loudspeaker outputs of an existing integrated stereo amplifier.

Just 18 of these left at time of writing ...


To quote MF's press release:



New! Titan 1kW per channel fully balanced dual mono power amp.
Limited edition of 50 pieces.



Design background.