SW1X Audio Design at Dutch Audio Event 2025

Setting Up The System

Show Report by HiFi Pig

“In room 22 of the Blue Zone, SW1X Audio Design exhibited a selection of its electronics. The British company follows a design philosophy centred on simplicity, valve technology, and hand-built construction. SW1X Audio Design was founded by Slawa Roschkow and produces DACs, amplifiers, and related components, all developed with the aim of preserving musical integrity through minimal signal processing.

The folk in the room seemed to be lapping up the guitar and clapping tunes that were playing and were very appreciative.

The full system was the VDT II steamer, DAC IV, Balanced Pre III LPX preamplifier, AMP V Titan power amp, and the aforementioned MTR 963 speakers. The speakers were an interesting design using 6×9 widebander in a large stand-mounted design. The actual amplifier playing in the room when we were in there was the integrated AMP V.

There was an interesting-looking turntable called the ZugSPITZ that had a linear tracking tonearm on the rack too, but we didn’t get the opportunity to get a listen to that, sadly.

This SW1X kit looks really fabulous in a kind of utilitarian but ever-so-cool kind of way.”