MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
I should have trusted my ears. When I first encountered Infigo (pronounced In-FEE’-go) electronics, paired with Alta Audio’s Adam loudspeaker, at T.H.E. Show 2022 in Long Beach, California, I wrote,1 “Timbres were beautiful on bass and high-pitched percussion. The chimes and vibes sounded special and clean, colors were plentiful, and deep bass was all of one piece.” Nor was I exaggerating. In that system, Infigo’s Method 3 monoblocks ($55,000/pair) pleased my ears as much as their blue-illumined interiors delighted my eyes.
Rather quickly, Editor Jim Austin suggested I review the Method 3. Perhaps he’d already been tipped off by Ken Micaleff’s praise when he first encountered Infigo in November 2021 at the Capital Audio Fest, and by the ensuing buzz.2 I was concerned, though, that the Infigo Method 3s might not be able to drive my Wilson Audio Alexia IIs. Even though Infigo owner/designer Hans Looman assured me that they would, “no problem,” I decided to hold off until I could listen to the amplifiers again.
Some months later, I encountered the same pairing at the inaugural Pacific Audio Fest. Describing that experience, I wrote, “Smoothness was the system’s strong suit, dwarfing (in this room) layering, detail, dynamics, and grandeur. Then again, sound on a 16/44.1 file of Chabrier’s España was the most liquid of anything I heard at the show up to midday.… Absolutely the right timbre and sound quality for this music.… Equally impressive was the beautiful guitar sound on a 24/176.4 transfer of the Mercury Living Presence LP of The Romeros playing Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. The sound was superb.”
Shortly after that, the somewhat easier to drive Wilson Alexia Vs entered my system. More confident that the Method 3 would mate well with my speakers, I requested review samples.
In retrospect, now that I’ve spent several weeks with the Infigos in my reference system, I wish I’d said “yes” at first opportunity.
The man and the company
Infigo means “impressive” in Latin; that word also describes Looman, the designer and company founder. Even as a child in The
