Paul Meakin
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I wouldn't be too discouraged by that. Icon have been around for a while and their full sized amps seem to be well regarded (although admittedly this guarantees nothing, anyone can produce a dud).
I suspect they may just be one of those brands that gets somewhat overlooked here on Head-fi (e.g. Naim, Densen, EAR-Yoshino, etc.), which is not that unusual for UK/EU manufactured kit... maybe due to a big price hike for transport and import duty? This holds for North American kit being imported into the UK, it's pretty typical to just change the $ symbol to a £ and leave the numbers unchanged.
If you are in the UK and anywhere near Sussex, I think I remember reading that Hi-Fi headphones might have one on demonstration. Or try Icon directly if you are in the Midlands.
Yeah, it certainly seems to have the power and the characteristics to be a good match with the T1. The only thing that's keeping me back is that it's a bit of an unknown quantity and nobody seems to have heard it.
I wouldn't be too discouraged by that. Icon have been around for a while and their full sized amps seem to be well regarded (although admittedly this guarantees nothing, anyone can produce a dud).
I suspect they may just be one of those brands that gets somewhat overlooked here on Head-fi (e.g. Naim, Densen, EAR-Yoshino, etc.), which is not that unusual for UK/EU manufactured kit... maybe due to a big price hike for transport and import duty? This holds for North American kit being imported into the UK, it's pretty typical to just change the $ symbol to a £ and leave the numbers unchanged.
If you are in the UK and anywhere near Sussex, I think I remember reading that Hi-Fi headphones might have one on demonstration. Or try Icon directly if you are in the Midlands.