Category: Amplifiers

Wells Audio Innamorata Signature Stereo amplifier

January 7, 2016

    In 2013, Clement Perry reviewed the Wells Audio Innamorata Amp and bestowed upon it a ‘Most Wanted Component “Publisher’s Choice!” award. I, fortunately already owned the Innamorata as well and was happy to see [Read More]

Elekit TU-8300R 300B amp kit

December 29, 2015

      Elekit, a Japanese electronics firm founded in ancient 1970’s pre-iPhone Japan, didn’t always make fiddly esoteric audiophiley tube amp kits. A quick Googling reveals “ELEKIT was born at the electric appliance shop ‘KAHO’ [Read More]

JEFF ROWLAND MODEL 525 stereo amplifier

October 26, 2015

Successor to the model 201 mono’s, the model 525 with new Pascal technology promises further improved sound. Introduction The model 525 is one of the most recent additions to Jeff Rowland’s amplifier lineup. It is [Read More]

H-Cat P-12 X10 Doppler-Free Line Stage and DF-100.2 X10 Stereo Amplifier

September 7, 2015

        Many years ago, I touted a new preamp by a man I first met long ago at a Chicago CES Show. I found it exceptional (as did The Absolute Sound that [Read More]

Devialet 200

September 4, 2015

  Being of diminutive stature I had known that “Small is Beautiful” long before I read the seminal work of the British economist, E.F. Schumacher (Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People [Read More]

Rogue Audio Stereo 100 Tube Amplifier

August 7, 2015

    I was satisfied with the sonic presentation of my Rogue Audio Medusa tube hybrid amplifier but sometimes one gets the urge to try something different. In this case, I wanted to see how [Read More]

Arcam FMJ A19 Integrated Amplifier and CDS27 SACD Player/Network Streaming Player

July 25, 2015

  I remember the first time that we held a party at our house and I put my reference system on full display for some of me and my girlfriend’s friends and family. I was [Read More]

Classé Audio Sigma SSP and Sigma AMP5

July 10, 2015

  “Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that [Read More]

Elliott Studio Arts Model 66-001p Stereo Preamplifier

June 29, 2015

  When shopping for a new audio component, we hope to be swept away by it’s looks, operation and the veils it removes. We love it when there’s a marked improvement in sound, something tangible [Read More]

THE AUDIO NOTE P1 SE

June 3, 2015

My first introduction to single-ended tubed amplifiers came via the auspices of an Audio Note Kit One using a pair of 300B tubes. It was, at that time (which was 1995 to be precise) my [Read More]

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