If you’ve wondered what a preamplifier is, what it exactly does, and whether your audio setup is missing one, we’ve got the ...

A combination preamp/amplifier, typically for two-channel stereo. The preamp provides the input switching and phonograph equalization, and the amplifier boosts the signals to the speakers. Integrated ...

Two-minute review. The Rotel DX-5 is a compact, beautifully constructed and very nicely designed stereo integrated amplifier ...

Full bass management is a rarely found feature in stereo integrated amps, but the Parasound Halo has it, along with superb sound. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

If there is a single species of audio component that has gained popularity over the past few years, it would have to be the integrated amplifier; a single box whose entrails combine a control ...

Balanced Music Concept (B.M.C.) Audio introduced the high-end AMP CS2 integrated stereo amplifier with a built-in power amp upgrade option. The AMP CS2 can change from operating as an integrated ...

Dan D’Agostino recognizes that only a handful of music lovers are prepared to dedicate a miniature skyscraper’s worth of space—and an equally towering financial outlay—to build a comprehensive ...

2.1-channel integrated amplifier with high-resolution DSD DAC, MM/MC phono stage, balanced XLRs, analog bass management, home theater bypass, and 160-watts per channel of John Curl designed amplifier ...

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One of my first jobs as a freshly minted graduate engineer involved the maintenance of a set of analogue chart recorders. They were museum pieces by the early 1990s: a motorized roll of graph paper ...

In 2020, Virgil Abloh, the late artistic director at Louis Vuitton and founder of Off-White, started developing an artistic proposal for McIntosh, with the hope that it would lead to a special series ...