Amplifier designer Andy Hunt, the man behind the original Matrix amplifiers, has now re-established the brand along with business partner Matt Button. Save for some metalwork which is sourced from a local supplier, the new manufacturing operation is remarkably self-sufficient, with the design and manufacture taking place in-house, including the switchmode power supplies and surface-mounting of the PCBs. Button told L&SI that following extensive end-user testing and feedback, the company now has 13 product lines in production, all of which are either Class AB or Class G topologies.
So successful has the field-testing been that Matrix is already providing amplifiers on an OEM basis for two sound system manufacturers - Shermann Sound Systems and A.S.S. More OEM customers are in the pipeline, says Button.
(Lee Baldock)
