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TAS COVER STORY
Cruising the halls of Consumer Electronics Shows, I’ve often paused to admire the products of
Simaudio, a Canadian firm with over twenty-five years’ experience manufacturing high-quality
electronics. It has always had a reputation for high performance, while its uniquely styled amps
and preamps impressed me as both eye-catching yet functional. So it was with keen enthusiasm
that I accepted the assignment to review three of Simaudio’s flagship components from its Moon
Evolution line: the P-8 preamplifier and W 8 amplifier, both dual-mono designs, and the Andromeda CD player.
Intended as full-out assaults on the state of the art, and priced accordingly—a formidable $33k for the stack— these
two-channel-only beauties attest to the tenacity of old-fashioned stereophonic reproduction in an increasingly
multichannel world. “Old-fashioned” Perhaps “new style classicism” is more accurate.
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