As audio/video hobbyists, most of us grew up thinking that if we have an amplifier with 50 watts of rated output power into 8-ohm speakers, and that combination produces reasonably clean and loud ...

Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, a better seven channel amplifier than the Emotiva UPA-7 does NOT exist on the market. This is a safe purchase and a highly recommended one! When Emotiva finally ...

The Moon 371 is a super versatile “just add speaker” amplifier that’s designed for modern audiophiles. It combines a power ...

WiiM has become quite the disruptor in the budget hi-fi space over recent years. The California-based audio company is now ...

The LM48555 single-chip Boomer audio power amplifier from National Semiconductor drives ceramic speakers in a range of 3-V dc portable devices. By driving these speakers at higher voltages, the amp ...

Paradigm’s PW Amp can stream high-res audio while correcting your speakers’ and room’s acoustic shortcomings. Canada-based Paradigm has a long, respected pedigree in the high-end audio world, where it ...

Let's assign a point system to determine if you may benefit from an external amplifier, or if you would be better served by saving your cash. Please keep in mind this is not a biblical source. I ...

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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 ...

The voltage-amplifier stage (or VAS) has often been regarded as the most critical part of a power-amplifier, since it not only provides all the voltage gain but also must deliver the full output ...

From earlier work in this series, distortion from the small-signal stages may be kept to levels that will prove negligible compared with distortion from a closed-loop output stage. Similarly, future ...