Ypsilon Electronics was founded in 1995 in Athens, Greece.

The founders combined a background as recording engineers specializing in live events with their training in electrical engineering. Their goal was create components that faithfully reproduced the magic and emotion they experienced from live music.

A few central tenants of their philosophy were to always choose the simplest approach to a design, and build on the foundation of single-ended Class A circuitry.

The Olympian SET 100 is the purest expression of this.

Paying particular attention to the role of transformers in amplification circuits, they chose to wind their own transformers to optimize musicality for each device—a process Maier Shadi was able to observe during his factory visit. (Shown in the video to the right.)

Another unique feature of their hybrid amp designs is the ability to choose different input stage tubes to further tailor the sound of the amplifier in relation to the choice of loudspeakers and front end devices.

My own sense is that the company’s equipment seeks to poke into every nook and cranny of the performance space, seeking out the smallest details that it can excavate and hold up for your scrutiny.

Jacob Heilbrunn, The Absolute Sound