Who makes the focal amps?

Nope. Audison is an Italian company and they were often paired with Focal components. Orca is the company that distributes Focal and Audison to the US. Audison and Orca had it out and now Focal makes their own amps. The make them for maximizing their speakers and I do have to say wow. They sound just amazing.

 
Thanks for the replies. I'm thinking about trying one. I really love my TRU 4.65, but want to give another component amp a try. Although I may just send my amp out for another upgrade.

 
Yeah, I'm not sure that's the same focal. For a while, Focal was distributing Audison in the U.S., but they had a bit of a falling out and Focal has it's own line of amps (and Elettromedia has it's own line of speakers). I would say it's a fair bet that Audison has nothing to do with the new Focal amps.

 
I was looking at one of the focal amps on ebay. Looks like a soundstream to me. Does anyone know who is actually producing the boards, etc?
http://cgi.ebay.com/FOCAL-7450-AMPLIFIER-SPECIAL-EDITION-RARE-NEW-IN-BOX_W0QQitemZ140058627684QQihZ004QQcategoryZ4950QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
That is an old Focal amplifier, not one of their newly released amplifiers. That one is probably from the early to mid '90s.

I believe that those older Focal amps were made by PPI, back when PPI was doing a lot of OEM work.

 
That is an old Focal amplifier, not one of their newly released amplifiers. That one is probably from the early to mid '90s.
I believe that those older Focal amps were made by PPI, back when PPI was doing a lot of OEM work.
I am surprised at the board layout then if that is a PPI. They usually used boards with connections on each end. This one has connections run on one side. I figured it was an old one though.
 
That is an old Focal amplifier, not one of their newly released amplifiers. That one is probably from the early to mid '90s.

This is what the newer Focal amps look like.

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Very nice.

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