The Musical Fidelity approach to mechanical design

We believe that the casework of an amplifier or CD player should be pleasing to look at, beautifully constructed and well finished. The 'industrial chic' of the A5s is our latest example of this. Look carefully at the A5 front panels, handles and heatsinks, and you will notice their exquisite proportions and detailing. Compare it with any of its competitions costing many times as much, and you will see that the A5 looks better, is better made and is better finished.

We achieve this by careful production design and tooling. To accomplish this, we invest large amounts of money in production tooling and we manufacture pieces in large quantities, because we have found that this gives us a higher level of finish and more consistent quality than other methods of manufacture.

The usual high-end approach is to machine the detailing. Machining costs seven to ten times as much as production tooling. We see no advantage to paying seven to ten times the price for what amounts to exactly the same part. Our metal parts are tooled and extruded and theirs are machined out of solid. Tooled or machined, the parts function just the same. But tooling offers amazing value for money.

Every aspect of the external design of our products is tweaked like this, until it can be manufactured at the highest quality and the lowest piece part cost.

These are not things that audio manufacturers usually talk about. But they are part of the reason that our products offer such amazing value for money.