Lavardin must be one of hi-fi’s best-kept secrets. Never heard of it? We don’t blame you. It’s a tiny French company that specialises in amplification, making a small range of one-box and pre/power combinations.
The company hardly ever changes its products, making just a couple of revisions to its range over the last two decades. That kind of approach hardly makes a ripple in an industry that’s used to rapid product reinventions and is always frantically searching for the ‘Next Big Thing’.
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Another reason for Lavardin’s under-the-radar existence is the company’s products barely conform to any of the usual high-end norms.They’re just plain, usually black, relatively slim boxes with no more aura of luxury about them than your typical grand’s-worth of electronics.
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