Cyrus Audio was founded in 1984. It was originally Mission’s electronics sub-brand before becoming independent and its first products were a pair of affordable integrated amplifiers, the classic Cyrus One and Two. These were excellent and proved successful enough to establish strong foundations for the brand. They also set the half-width physical template it has become synonymous with.
That first generation of amplifiers remained on sale for the best part of a decade before they were replaced by the Cyrus 3 in the early ’90s. This was a more sophisticated and upmarket design, but it is arguably most notable for its use of an unusual inverted die-cast casing design. This classy and clever casework has been used on pretty much all of Cyrus’s core hi-fi products since then, including in the current Cyrus Classic series.
