HALCRO Amplifiers

In response to a post....

Delve Audio IS a Halcro dealer (IN New JERSEY) and acquires amps from Halcro directly, through Philip O'Hanlon, the Halcro Distributor. He is the only Halcro distributor in the USA, as far as I know.... Oliver, owner, Delve Audio

It's been over 25 years now, but the new ECLIPSE by far exceeds any of the previous Halcro models. Cheers!

I believe the Audio salon in Santa Monica California sells Halcro gear

The gear looks fantastic, gets rave reviews, and has measurements almost unmatched. I would be very tempted, but would be concerned about service. I wonder if anybody on this forum has any experience with that.
 

certainly looks like an A+ quality product

Wow.  I thought they went out of business MANY years ago.  I heard the original when it came out and did not like it at all—very clinical and lifeless to me.  It had the kind of sound common to amps that use a lot of feedback to achieve impressive distortion numbers but don’t sound good ( I no idea if it was designed that way; it sounded like that).  When I was at CES in 2001, a manufacturer I know spotted me and insisted that I check out Halcro.  He said it ‘brought tears to his eyes.”  When I saw him later, I told him what I thought and he laughed.  He said those were tears from a powerful wave of nostalgia because the experience reminded him of the first time he heard a Phase Linear amp—he agreed it sounded terrible.

I hope the new model is better.  It does look nice.  A lot can change in a couple of decades.