The AMS35i is a 35wpc pure Class A dual mono integrated amp with balanced inputs.
The AMS35i exists for music. Although it has excellent technical performance we would like to talk about its sound quality as that, in the final analysis, is all that really matters.
The AMS35i has an almost hypnotic and involving sound quality. When you listen to it you do just exactly that; listen to it. Somehow the usual hi-fi criteria (what’s the bass like, what’s the imaging like, is it grainy, is it harsh, is it dynamic... you know) just don’t occur to you.
The AMS35i’s magic is drawing you into the music so that you forget about hi-fi. The sound quality is silky and inviting. Bass is very extended, imaging is entirely natural and convincing.
Even the remote control is extra special. It is machined from a solid billet of aluminium. All the push buttons are also turned from solid aluminium.
The AMS35i seems to have an ideal combination of virtues. When you listen to it all that seems to be important is the music. Isn’t that what hi-fi is for?
The AMS35i is a pure Class A amplifier for the pure music lover.
… “It’s still head and shoulders above most people’s conception of their ‘dream’ integrated amplifier, such is its useable power, expansive soundstaging, wonderful ‘hear through’ clarity and fine filigree detail. It’s the great, innate across the board.” …
… “The musical Fidelity AMS35i treads a skilful path, offering a good deal of the speed and liquidity of tubes with the insight and grip of a top transistor design. It’s an infectious and totally arresting combination” …
JANUARY 2011 HI-FI WORLD
… “The AMS35i sounded beautiful. There’s a smoothness, delicacy and warmth to this amplifier that I haven’t heard outside of a valve amplifier” …
DECEMBER 2009 HI-FI WORLD
… “The sound was superbly pure and accurate” …
… “The sound was incredibly life-like” …
… “Detailing extended up far beyond audibility, but with top-end extension came an almost surreal smoothness to the higher frequencies” …
… “The stereo staging of the AMS35i was marvellous, so that not only was the left/right imaging precise and razor-sharp, the depth and height of the images were also tangible” …
… “The Musical Fidelity AMS35i is very big, very heavy, very hot, and very expensive…but it sounds absolutely glorious and, thanks to its Class A design, completely different to the great majority of amplifiers that are currently available, irrespective of their price or their power output capability” …
