Cyrus i7-XR

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Stereo amplifier | £2295 | whf.cm/i7XR

Tell today’s impatient consumer that they will have to wait eight years for the next iPhone or Nike trainer and we imagine their face would screw up like that of a toddler who has just been fed a handful of kimchi. But the hi-fi admirer – us and, we suspect, you – is sensibly accustomed to be more forgiving of longer periods between evolutions. Still, as the years rolled by without a major update to Cyrus’s Classic range of components, we wondered if our appetite for a series successor would ever be whetted.

And then, in 2021, along came the Cyrus XR Series – not a Classic refresh but indeed a next-level, top-of-the-line range designed to perform a good step above the then-flagship Classic Signature products and represents Cyrus’s best yet.

The Cyrus XR Series