Delivered in a stout particle-board crate with metal handles, then cardboard box with thick foam liners, finally a thin protective cloth cover, Eos+ emerged from its shipping container with a set of white gloves. The power supply shipped separate with the same treatment. This division of labour, size and weight was practical and clearly easier on the back. That the PSU chassis was a rather more modest affair of bent sheet metal only a few will belabour. The rest appreciates that something just as likely stored out of sight—the included 4-pin umbilical is sufficiently long—does not spend unnecessarily on fancier cosmetics. The innards sport a big vertically mounted power toroid and two 50V/10'000µF Nichicon caps with a metal bridge rectifier to act as DC trap before the mains hits the iron. It's routinely DC on the line which causes transformer hum. Now this is a thoughtful solution for quiet operation when even many a power conditioner omits a DC filter.

It's with the amp that we get into a metal-lined wooden chassis with rounded corners and thick walls. Except for its power supply and biasing boards, the rest here isn't finger pointing but...

... classically wired three-dimensional point-to-pointing.

Of course even a tube amp may contain...

... a few transistors, here even a housekeeping IC.