At less than €7'500, it's rather easier on the ol' wallet than Dan D'Agostino's £19'998 Pendulum which is half as heavy and half as powerful but also class AB. Of course the Dazzle remote looks nothing like the American's. But at 44x41x17cm WxDxH with heavily rippled fascia and decorated heatsinks, Dazzle is dapper in his own way. It's clearly the next level up from Kinki's EX-M1 integrated. In power-amp mode it should even upstage my EX-B7 monos.

Exact Express Flame hookup wiring.

Its capacitance runs eight 10µF Vishay MKP film capacitors [above, lower left; below, lower left], eight 6800μF/100V reservoir caps and a thin-film 84µF-based network.

The preamp stage [upper right] exploits a DC servo to ensure zero offset without coupling capacitors.

The driver stage for the final power stage [lower left] goes by SSCLD module for Super Symmetry Current Linear Drive, "an evolution of Kinki Studio's high-bandwidth topology".

Next we see the push/pull output buffer with its 12 output devices per channel. Those are tuned for high class A bias up to 15 watts, suggesting a possible voicing change from the more "Swiss-tuned" EX range.