The Lavardin IT-15, Lavardin’s 15th Anniversary model, has arrived and is now on demo at #02-44 The Adelphi, Singapore.
 
One word sums it up, fantastique ! Arguably the best solid-state integrated amplifier we have ever heard. If you thought the legendary Lavardin IT was great, you got another thing coming, the IT-15 raises the bar much higher.
 
Still musical as ever, but with new-found outstanding transparency and resolution that reminds us of the best pre-power tube amplifiers costing so much more. Unlike most solid-state amplifiers, the Lavardin IT-15 does not sound hard in the transients, and the Lavardin trademark of excellent timbre and texture is even better now with its higher transparency. Superb in presentation of depth layering, as well as presence when called for.
 

 
Lavardin’s latest technology definitely is no fantasy, it is real and easily audible.
 
The Lavardin IT-15 is a solid-state amplifier that has the good sonic qualities of the best tube amplification around, without the tubes. Lavardin’s elimination of “memory distortion” effects in components coupled with its latest technology of optimizing components even further has produced a truly remarkable musical amplifier. Wonderfully transparent without sacrificing musicality, a natural sound.
 
Don’t take our word for it, listen for yourself, as it drives the splendid Estelon loudspeakers and the Voxativ Ampeggios at the showroom, #02-44 the Adelphi, Singapore. No “hifi-ish” sound (electronic) typical with other systems using ceramic driver speakers, just music presented naturally.