Heed Helikon preamp and mono amplifiers
For 30 years now, Heed Audio has been producing some of the highest-performing audio electronics for the money available anywhere in the world. Starting out with entry-level high-end products that performed way beyond their price (Obelisk integrated, Quasar phono, CanAmp headphone amp), they have constantly improved not only each of these seminal products, but expanded upwards into higher and higher performance categories with their full Obelisk line, then the Thesis line with its stunning Delta CD transport/player and the Lagrange integrated amp pushing at some of the upper levels of high-end performance and musicality, they now introduce the Helikon group of linestage and mono amps. These truly count among some of the most musically satisfying products at any price.
The Helikon preamp and mono amplifiers, sold as a matched set, will first be limited to a special 30th Anniversary production of 30 units, using NOS very special matched output devices and the now discontinued and much coveted Nichicon Gold coupling capacitors in a fully-balanced, latest implementation of their Nexus topology, employing a bridge-mode of their proprietary mirrored dual circuits, which produces four times the output power of the basic circuit in each of the monoblocks. Price for the Heed Helikon set will be $27,500. Their focus has always been, and shall remain, delivering the most performance value possible at any given price category. And their motto remains: “forget hi-fi, remember music.”