Eon Art
Website:https://www.eon-art.com/
Est. year: 2008
Eon Art is a high-end Canadian company building hybrid amplifiers, converters and loudspeakers, led by its founder and chief designer Stéphane Hautcoeur. The company works from Chandler in eastern Quebec and specialises in amplifiers that pair a tube preamplifier stage with a transistor power stage.
Range & what it's known for
All current amplifiers derive from the Monolith prototype of 2010, a dual-mono tube and transistor hybrid with a class A input stage and a class D output stage. The flagship Hadron is built in three blocks per channel, with a tube preamplifier section and tube power supply. Smaller stereo versions followed as the Quark, the Quark SE and the Squark. The Quark carries twelve independent power supplies and eight circuit boards with up to eight copper layers.
Who owns it and where it's made
Eon Art is led by Hautcoeur as CEO, and its products are made in Canada with parts sourced worldwide. In Chandler the company runs an audio electronics laboratory of more than 3,000 square feet, which it describes as the largest in Canada.
The lineup in this catalog
Integrated amplifiers, represented by the Hadron. It is rated at 400 W into 8 ohms and 700 W into 4 ohms, with one balanced and three single-ended analogue inputs.
Who it's for
Owners of demanding loudspeakers who want tube circuitry in the signal path together with high output power. The stereo Squark and Quark form the entry points, and the multi-chassis Hadron is the top model.