Advance Paris

Advance Paris designs and voices its electronics in France with a conviction the brand states plainly: nothing replaces the warmth of a tube. Its signature is the hybrid amplifier — a vacuum-tube input stage lending music its body and color, backed by a modern solid-state output section with the power to control real loudspeakers.

The range here runs from the flagship APEX integrateds and the ACD APEX CD player through the tube-and-DSP NOVA integrateds and the Classic line, to the X-series separates, CD players, and streaming components — French hi-fi at prices that keep surprising people.

Three integrated amplifiers are on our demonstration floor, spanning the range: the A10 Classic, the A12 APEX — the APEX treatment of the flagship hybrid design — and the A-i130 NOVA with its ECC81 tube input stage and onboard room correction. Bring music you know and hear all three side by side.