Vitus får även The Absolute Sounds utmärkelse Solid State Amplifier of the year 2025 för sina monoblock SM-103 mkII.

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"Since JV has liked the sound of several select Class AB solid-state amplifiers enough to make them long-time references—the Soulution 711, the JMF HQS 7001, and the MBL 9008/9011—and since Class AB amplifiers are subject to “crossover distortion” (wherein the imprecise timing of the turn-on and turn-off of the pair of transistors handling the positive and negative phases of the signal causes a small delay, a zero-voltage “flat spot” ) and Class A amplifiers (in which the power transistors handle both phases of the signal and are always biased “on”) are not, the issue with Vitus’ superb SM-103 Mk.II Class A monoblock amplifier becomes: “Is the absence of crossover distortion in a Class A amplifier audible?” In the case of the SM-103 Mk.II, JV found that he could best answer this question by reporting on what it offers that these Class AB amps do not, at least to the same extent. And that is a grainless fluidity that make the Class AB competition (or the competition he has heard) sound just the slightest bit more mechanical, less top-to-bottom dense and continuous in tone, texture, and dynamic, less solid and dimensional in imaging, less sonically of a piece. The difference was rather like the sound of a great full-range planar or electrostat compared with the slightly enclosed, faintly divided-into-pieces sound of multiple cones in a box. Like its companion linestage preamplifier, the SL-103, this is an amplifier that bridges the gaps between absolute-sound, musicality-first, and fidelity-to-source presentations—and does so with a minim of the usual Class A drawbacks (heat, power delivery, etc.). The most lifelike, beautiful, and three-dimensional amplifiers JV has yet heard in his system (and more than capable of driving the tough-load MBL 101 X-Treme MKIIs), the SM-103s were an easy pick for this year’s Solid-State Amplifier of the Year Award. (353)"