Inca Tech Claymore

摘要

Anumber of small British hi-fi companies sprang up in the late '70s to provide music lovers with equipment that not only offered excellent sound quality, but was relatively more affordable. One of these was Inca Tech, which launched its Claymore integrated amplifier at the tail end of 1979. As with many low-volume specialist British hi-fi products of that time, a number of iterations of the amplifier were produced over the years. In fact, there were six in total. The first two were MM phono and line level only, then an MC phono stage was added. The first three versions had CMOS switches, after which mechanical switching was used. And a move to Toshiba MOSFETs was made in around 1984, not only because the Hitachi devices had been discontinued but because Inca Tech felt they were better designed and more reliable.