Category: Amplifiers

Emotive Audio’s Poeta Preamp: Poetic Justice

January 1, 2010

Fred Volz, the proprietor of Emotive Audio, hand builds what could be described as “bespoke” audio components in his shop in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He has a range of standard models: three pre-amps, one phono-stage, and [Read More]

Elliott Studio Arts Series Sixty-Six Vacuum Tube Stereo Amplifier

December 16, 2009

  Beauty AND the Beast    December 2009   Over the years I’ve traveled to many places in pursuit of “perfect sound.” From the world’s greatest high-end shows in Munich, Germany to the world’s largest high-end [Read More]

Blue Circle Audio BC703 High Precision Reference

June 15, 2009

Blue Circle Audio BC703 High Precision Reference Phonostage Analog excellence in a digital world    June 2009              Blue Circular FlexibilityI really hadn’t taken Gilbert Yeung, chief oracle at Blue Circle Audio, seriously when [Read More]

BURMESTER 051 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

May 1, 2009

  Now That’s Delight    May 2009    On the night that Villanova clinches a spot in the men’s basketball Final Four with a runner in the last .5 seconds to upset the University of [Read More]

Bel Canto REF1000 MKII Amplifier

April 15, 2009

Bel Canto REF1000 MKII Amplifier      April 2009       “Fundamentally, the amplifier should make people happy.” -Nelson Pass Like many audiophiles, I have an ongoing desire to make my stereobetter. Unlike many audiophiles, I [Read More]

Nuforce P-9 Preamp

February 23, 2009

Nuforce P-9 Preamp A Rhapsody of Fluidity    February 2009        Back in the spring of ’06 I did a follow-up to Frank Alles’ wonderful review of the Nuforce 8’s. Life has been grand living [Read More]

Audio Analogue Maestro Duecento Integrated Amp and Maestro CD Player

September 26, 2008

Audio Analogue Maestro Duecento Integrated Amp and Maestro CD Player Bellissimo!   September 2008               On a trip to Paris a few years ago, I was in a taxi heading to theMusée d’Orsay when I commented [Read More]

Spectron Audio Musician III Signature Edition MK2 Monoblocks (With V-Caps)

August 29, 2008

Spectron Audio Musician III Signature Edition MK2 Monoblocks (With V-Caps)  More Power = More Music   August 2008     Well that didn’t take long. No siree mister, that didn’t take long at all. When I [Read More]

Further Thoughts: Living with the behold series of electronics

August 18, 2008

Life with the Consummate Component August 2008   Three years ago I accepted the difficult and unenviable task of being the very first audio reviewer to write about a new line of German-made high-end electronics aptly [Read More]

PrimaLuna DiaLogue Two Integrated Tube Amplifier

June 18, 2008

PrimaLuna DiaLogue Two Integrated Tube Amplifier A Strong Case for Tubes   June 2008      Okay, I admit it—I read Jim Hannon’s review of the PrimaLuna DiaLogue Two integrated tube amplifier in the October 2007 [Read More]

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