Amplifiers - Stereo Times

LSA Warp 1 Power Stereo Amplifier by Greg Voth

September 27, 2021

The LSA Discovery Warp 1 stereo power amplifier has been one engaging roommate over this past month. I’ve listened to it in various combinations with my other equipment nearly every day, and its 150 [Read More]

Unison Research Unico 150 integrated by David Abramson

September 20, 2021

The solid-state/tube hybrid Unison Research Unico 150 is the most challenging amplifier I’ve ever reviewed. I’m talking physically. I work out, eat right, follow celebrity Tiktok advice for the best collagen powder protein [Read More]

AMPED AMERICA AAP-1 Pre-Amplifier and 2400 Stereo Amplifier by Greg Voth

August 23, 2021

Once things began opening up, my first audio trek with Clement was meeting with Boris Meltsner, owner of the New Jersey-based AMPED America brand. As we pulled up to the warehouse, we were warmly [Read More]

Audio Note Meishu Phono 300B Tonmeister SE Integrated by Clement Perry

June 7, 2021

My first-time encounter with Audio Note of UK electronics happened fortuitously at my very first Hi-Fi show. If my memory serves me correctly, this was in the early ’90s, during hi-fi’s golden years – [Read More]

SBS Designs S5 Series stereo amplifier

April 27, 2021

I’ve been living happily with the SBS Designs S2-Pro class AB power amplifier for the past year or so. It’s a terrific amp – dynamic, transparent, and quite revealing. When Clement offered the opportunity to [Read More]

Coda CSiB Integrated by Richard Willie

April 5, 2021

If there were an appropriate one-word description of the Coda Technologies CSiB, “smooth” would be it. Though smooth is the word that stands out in my mind when thinking about the Coda CSiB, it [Read More]

Canary Audio M350 monoblocks by Key Kim

March 1, 2021

I’ve reviewed many tube amplifiers from SET to Push-Pull in the past several years using various types of output tubes. I’ve reviewed everything from the legendary Audio Note Kondo Ongaku amplifier to a more approachable [Read More]

Schiit Audio Freya + Tube Preamplifier by Paul Szabady

February 17, 2021

I’ve always been on the look-out for audio gear that produces seriously high fidelity at a price that the average-incomed music lover might actually afford. Since it’s now possible to spend over $1,000,000 on [Read More]

LSA Discovery DPH-1 DAC/Headphone preamp by Greg Voth

February 2, 2021

The pandemic provided ample time to clean up and add to my digital library since in-person record shopping was necessarily curtailed. I took time to (fully) organize and flesh out ID3 tags and [Read More]

Aric Audio Motherlode MK-II Preamplifier by Terry London

January 23, 2021

Starting four years ago, I began to review the tube-based amplifiers designed and hand-built by Aric Kimball, CEO/Designer of the highly regarded small artisan company, Aric Audio, located in Palmer, Massachusetts. I gave the [Read More]