After going upmarket with the high-end Thesis range, Heed Audio has returned to more humble pastures with its new Elixir: an analogue-only integrated stereo amplifier targeted at first-time hi-fi buyers.

More affordable than usual for the Budapest-based brand, it sits below the Thesis and Obelisk lines, but borrows the design principles found in Heed’s TransCap amps, like the 2012 Award-winning Obelisk si, and has a decent output of 50W per channel into 8 ohms (or 65W per channel into 4 ohms).