Category: Amplifiers
VALVET A4e Monoblock amplifier
June 9, 2019
I wasn’t aware of Valvet, having missed Key Kim’s review of the A4e’s predecessor, the A3.5’s, in 2009. The A4-CB’s garnered inclusion in StereoTimes’ Most Wanted Component Award” winner for the year. As such, I [Read More]
Schiit Audio Aegir Class A Power Amplifier
June 1, 2019
Schiit Audio is the most maverick of a group of companies that have risen to prominence in recent years serving the Computer World market. Initially focusing on small, high-quality inexpensive DAC’s, headphone amps, and [Read More]
McIntosh MA5300
May 8, 2019
For me, owning McIntosh is a comforting feeling like a pair of favorite slippers or T-shirt. A McIntosh integrated amplifier was my first piece of real high-end equipment. I still remember it fondly. The [Read More]
Alexus Audio 845SE Single-Ended mono amplifiers
April 7, 2019
After moving on from my long-time reference Eminent Technology LFT-8b’s loudspeakers (inefficient but wonderful) ) to the Tekton Double Impact’s (SUPER efficient and wonderful), I received word that Alex Chorine of Alexus Audio had [Read More]
MastersounD BoX Integrated Amplifier
December 1, 2018
Late last year, I had a chat with Robert Maicks of Star Sound Technologies when he mentioned that he would be at this year’s AXPONA show and that we would plan run into one [Read More]
Simon Audio Group i5 Integrated amplifier
November 24, 2018
As a professional musician, I am constantly analyzing sounds. Music is everywhere and in everything. Where are the sounds coming from and who or what is making them? It is such an integral part of [Read More]
Lyric AudioTi-200 Integrated Amplifier
August 10, 2018
Do Not Turn Your Dial, This Is The Correct Review Just so no one gets confused at the outset, this is indeed a review of the Lyric Audio Ti-200 tube integrated amplifier. But as [Read More]
PS Audio BHK Signature Stereo 250 Amplifier
July 2, 2018
PS Audio’s Paul McGowan was fortunate enough to acquire the designing prowess of renowned audio designer and guru Bascom H King to design PS Audio’s top of the line BHK amplifiers. Kudos to McGowan [Read More]
Linear Tube Audio ZOTL 10 Mk. II Amplifier
June 5, 2018
ZO-Tl It On the Mountain In the beginning, there was 1.0. I home demoed it; partly in the presence of both Will and…no, not Grace. Mark. Will and Mark; the twonicer n’ nice audio zealots [Read More]
McIntosh MA252 Integrated
May 19, 2018
Some manufacturers stand above the crowd based upon decades of history and legend. Were you at Woodstock? McIntosh was. Ever hear the Grateful Dead’s famous Wall of Sound? Yep, McIntosh. Since its founding in [Read More]
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