We understand that not everyone wants the complexity and expense, relatively speaking, of a dedicated monaural power amplifier per channel. If you require a more compact solution that, nevertheless is able to satisfy the most discerning lover of recorded music Element 114, our stereo offering is sure to appeal.

The Element 114 stereo power amplifier is the smallest and least powerful sibling in our power amplifier range, but still packs a punch with its 200 watts into 8 ohms, 400 into 4 ohms and 800 watts into 2 ohms. The ability to double output for a halving of impedance is the hallmark of a truly well engineered amp.

Element 114 is built with the same dedication to musical, and emotional fidelity that is at the heart of our philosophy and passion? ? music first, connection, immediacy, the moment filled with all the detail and nuance in timing, harmony, ambient data, dynamics and speed that make the concert hall or the recording studio come to life for you in your own home.

Element 114 has the same ‘blacker than black’ ultra quiet noise floor of our other power amplifiers, to allow the most delicate of musical information to emerge unmolested from its circuitry. We insist on it ? silence is the beginning of music, silence pervades the music; music is the dance of sound with silence. Everything we have learned about how to create ‘the void’, this purity of noiselessness in components and signal paths goes into the Element 114 stereo power amplifier.

All great music seems to revolve around a fundamentally still point. Perhaps we can appreciate this most keenly in the work of J.S. Bach, especially the fugues. The music emerges from nothingness, moves around emptiness and returns to stillness at the end.

Without this fidelity to no sound ? to quiet, we lose that all important sense of anticipation as the needle hits the groove, or the play button is pushed. We lose our connection to the heart of performance as extraneous anomalous sonic events enter the signal path and vital cues are swamped by interference, however tiny. Music must emerge from purity, and live in it till done.

Element 114 ? the art of sound, and silence.