Price: AU$12,995

Website: www.spec-corp.co.jp

Peter said: The RSA-M3EX is one remarkably pure sounding tone machine. It has bass extension and power enough to drive a range of lower efficiency real world speakers and gives a taste of the characteristic deep rich tone and musical dynamic sound activity that was previously the domain of DH SET amplifiers and high efficiency loudspeakers.

Read the SoundStage! Australia review.

The gist: A unique integrated designed by SPEC Corporation’s founder, Shirokazu Yazaki.