Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
It's not worth more than fifty quid IMO regardless of how much people are paying for them.

Amps crammed into small cases are just never a good idea. Capacitors get stuck next to transistors and heat sinks because there's not enough space to lay it all out optimally, and the heat means they die early.

Never mind the 'space saving'. You're 'saving' a cube of air about 4'' by 4'' by 2''. If that amount of space really matters then you've got much bigger issues to solve.
You need to have a word with your calculator Mart - 4"x4"x2"? That's about the size of 3 fag packets, and these Cyrus units are half size. Not that it matters to me, I'll stick with me full-size amp that looks like it would hurt if it fell on your head. But Cyrus were going for "compact form factor" (their words) to appeal to folk who didn't want their kit to dominate the room.

I'm sure they must have gotten on top of earlier reliability issues, you're not going to be successful in business for 40-odd years by building expensive skip-fodder. Unless your name's Dyson