Category: Amplifiers
Rogue Audio Medusa TubeD™ Amplifier
July 29, 2013
Medusa hath charms to soothe a savage breast I first met Rogue Audio’s CEO, Mark O’Brien many years ago at an audiophile get-together where some new speakers from Evett and Shaw [Read More]
Exemplar Exception preamp
July 15, 2013
Is the Exemplar Exception Preamp Exceptional?Waiting for component to break-in is the bane of audio reviewers. You can hear improvements over time, and you don’t ever really know when this will stop. This was especially [Read More]
Vitus Audio RD-100 DAC and RS-100 Stereo Amplifier
July 15, 2013
A Serious Reference Readers of my reviews over the past few years know that I have been particularly smitten with works of Hans-Ole Vitus the founder and chief designer of the components of [Read More]
Carver Cherry 180M Mono Block Amplifier
July 15, 2013
Everything is Better with Cherries on Top The Carver Cherry 180M mono blocks are one sweet set of amps, but quite frankly were not the reason I contacted Carver to arrange an amplifier review. But, [Read More]
Von Gaylord Audio LAD-L1 Mk IV Pre and Alpha Stereo amplifier
July 15, 2013
The Legend of Von Gaylord World Premiere! On a wet and dreary night… wait, wrong legend. This tale begins when I was speaking with Key Kim, a fellow ST reviewer about nice sounding [Read More]
The Akasha stereo amplifier from Wells Audio
April 24, 2013
…leaves me wondering what its upscale sibling, the Innamorata sounds like. April, 2013 Jeff Wells, the namesake of Wells Audio tells an interesting, and surely unusual story about the creation of his amplifiers. Wells [Read More]
Concert Fidelity ZL-120V2SE Mono amplifiers The Aficionado’s Dream?
April 11, 2013
Dec, 2012 Excited? Of course I was. Earlier this year while smack-dab in the middle of reviewing the Concert Fidelity CF-080LSX Preamplifier, Hajime Sato, Concert Fidelity’s vice president, called to find out [Read More]
The Burson Audio Conductor Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not… aw f*** it.
April 11, 2013
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not… aw f*** it. January, 2013 As all three of you who comprise my devoted regular readership know, the ‘D’ in the the [Read More]
Rogue Audio’s Ninety Nine (Super) Magnum Preamplifier
April 11, 2013
99 miles to nirvana? Mark O’Brien, president and founder of Rogue Audio, started the company in 1996, partly because he became frustrated with the direction of the high-end audio market [Read More]
Pass Labs XVR-1 Electronic Crossover: Approaching Sonic Nirvana
February 18, 2013
February, 2013 Those of you who may have read some of my reviews from the latter half of 2012 already know that I made an interesting addition to my reference system when a bought [Read More]
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