The Cuculo-mono poweramps from Japan are compact wonders. They are the perfect match to their Cuculo-att passive preamp (see our other listing) where they share the same aesthetic looks with the Emerald Pearl stone and the screw-less chassis design. They could be used with other preamps too but if you want a matching setup and the purity sound that Musica is known for, then you should get them together. The Cuculo-monos are originally a two chassis setup where it comes with a power brick power supply (like the ones you see powering up a laptop) for each amp. The setup you see here in the pics come with the optional, higher capacitance (ten times more than the power brick) Cuculo-ps power supply unit that has the same matching cabinets. The pair of optional power supply is $1,590 more which brings the total to $3,180 for a four chassis amp setup. The amps have one RCA input and a pair of speaker binding posts for each channel. Power output is a healthy but very conservative 50W in 8 ohm and 25W in 4 ohm. They are class A/B and not class D. When used with the passive preamp, it didn’t take much cranking up to get a really loud volume level. The musical presentation was smooth, warm, transparent and detailed. In Japan where the room situation is a lot smaller than here in the US, audiophiles there tend to use high efficiency speakers and smaller sized components, like the Cuculo-monos to bring about musical enjoyment without sacrificing too much real estate in the room. In our auditioning rooms, we paired them with all kinds of speakers – Seidenton STB Studios, Zingali HM215s and even Wilson Audio WATT Puppy 6s with very satisfying results. Amps are BRAND NEW and comes with a one year factory warranty (to the original owner). Like the Cuculo-att, each amp and the Cuculo-ps measure 4.5″ wide, 2 3/4″ tall and 8″ deep.
Musica is a specialty brand in Japan that has been making some astonishing sounding audio gears since 2005. The design and build is all in house and painstakingly hand made. And we are proud to be their US distributor and very excited to bring their products to your home. Here are some fun facts – Musica is located in the Tokai region which is synonymous for being the most industrialized region in Japan. The headquarters of Toyota and Honda can be found here and back in the early half of the last century, had factories producing the ZERO fighter in WWII. In fact, the factory that make the steel chassis of the preamp also makes tanks! The PC boards used in the Cuculo range comes from the same factory that makes PC boards that are used in Lexus and Toyota vehicles. And the beautiful stone that they used on the top of all Cuculo components are imported from Norway (they are called Emerald Pearl). We have been auditioning the preamp/monoblocks in our store for weeks now (before taking up the US distributorship) and have received nothing but positive comments about them. So we are really excited they will be setting a benchmark at their very reasonable price points.
Pics you see here are our store DEMO unit. You will be receiving a BRAND NEW units upon your order. Price and listing is for a pair of Cuculo-mono power amps with their original factory supplied power brick power supply. If you want to get them with the optional higher spec power supplies, that will be an additional $1,590. Let us know that before ordering.
