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Integrated electronics
Source tube electronics from a Slovak shop that builds its own circuit boards and tests every unit before it ships.
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Canor builds vacuum-tube electronics in Prešov, in eastern Slovakia, and has been at it for roughly three decades. The company started in 1995 building amplifiers under the Edgar name and rebranded everything as Canor — Latin for "sound" — in 2007. What sets the operation apart from the typical small tube house is vertical integration: Canor manufactures its own PCBs in-house, hand-builds the circuits, and runs an extended burn-in and measurement pass on every unit before it leaves the factory. The current line covers integrated amplifiers, preamplifiers and power amplifiers, CD players and DACs, and a well-regarded set of phono stages. Models that have drawn press attention include the AI 1.10 integrated amplifier and the Virtus I2 phono preamplifier, alongside the CD 2.10 player/DAC. This is a full-range tube electronics catalog rather than a single-product specialist. In the US, Canor is distributed by Verdant Audio in Jersey City, New Jersey, which positions it as a known-but-not-mainstream import — the kind of brand specialist dealers stock and value-conscious tube buyers seek out. Its press record backs that standing: The Absolute Sound reviewed the AI 1.10, HiFi News covered the Virtus I2 and CD 2.10, and TNT Audio has written on the brand as well. Canor competes with other established European tube-electronics makers at the mid-to-upper tier, where in-house manufacturing and measured consistency are the selling points. All design and production happen in Slovakia.