Veritas

Veritas means truth, and the truth is, should you have a non-active speaker, and not an integrated amplifier, you'll need some solid power behind it. Merrill Audio makes the amplifier Veritas, and to tell the truth, we think of shoes, when we think of Merrill. 400 watts at 8 ohms is a compelling argument. The Devialet 400 is a popular amplifier, whereas the Merill comes with feet.

AT $12,000.00 USD for 400 watts (a pair of stereo monoblocks), you have a cost of $30.00 USD per stereo watt. $1800.00 USD / pair then at 60 watts. That's not quite true, but it is a basic method for comparison.



On 30 January 1994, 1 USD = 0.888228 EUR. [Quite a lucky number.]

The Jeff Rowland Model 1 is our Benchmark Reference amplifier.
Jeff Rowland Model 1 was 5000.00 EUD in 1994.
So, $5629.00 USD, roughly, then, or $8,991.81 today [59.7% CRI - 1981 was a very good year.]

[Today, a Jeff Rowand Model 1 goes for 1500 EUR or $1699.95 USD, roughly.]
We just had a $100,000 CDN assessment on our condo, so we are thinking about money.



Today, Jeff Rowland makes the model 525. It's Capricious in that it goes well with the Capri pre-amp in the context of Indra.

No Indira Gandhi, but Indra the god of Rain. Note the umbrella.



Indra, the Avalon Acoustics speaker, of course, for harmony.

The 525 outputs 250 watts at 8 ohms, stereo form and in monoblock form, as re: Veritas, 950 watts @ 8 ohms.

That's balanced, transformer less, but we'll get into that later.
Transformers are the things that, typically, hum.
Audiophiles like them on their tubes.

The Jeff Rowland 525 goes for $4500.00 USD / each, or $9000.00 / pair.
That's $9.47 USD / stereo watt. $568.42 USD / 60 watts.



Now the Vertias comes with N-Core technology, whereas the

The Devialet 400 is a different proposition. A bit like a set of books. Class D integrated. Value-less. Nice.
$17,495 USD per pair.