The April 2011 issue of Stereophile arrived in my mailbox a couple of days ago, and if you haven't seen it already, the Leben CS600 integrated amplifier earned the coveted Stereophile Class A rating - way to go Leben!

The Class A rating was the result of a very nice review that Stereophile writer John Marks did in his The Fifth Element column for the June 2010 issue of Stereophile. John Marks said, "The Leben CS600 had a certain, almost indefinable sweetness about it, and a beguiling presentation of inner detail ... simply glorious ..." and I couldn't agree more, its a wonderful amplifier.

Back in February of 2007 when I reviewed the Leben CS600 for 6Moons it really got my attention with its superb combination of musicality and sonics. The CS600 upended my perceptions about what was important in audio, and as a result I bought the review sample and never looked back. I still use my CS600 nearly every day in my system with my Harbeth Super HL5 loudspeakers.

Like the tagline of the Heroes television show that said Save the cheerleader, save the world, Leben's tagline could be Own a CS600, save your music, as it most certainly did for mine!