One of my first jobs as an engineer was at Empire Scientific Corp. in Garden City, NY in 1972. This was a high-end audio company that made speakers, turntables and phonograph cartridges. We had some ...

What if a palm-sized amp could outperform larger, more expensive modules while delivering serious sound quality? Check out ...

Nagra’s $24,500 PREAMP II-S is considered one of the company’s more affordable preamps. That alone tells you exactly who this is for—and who it isn’t.

Cranborne Audio has introduced its new Camden EC1, a desktop preamp with analog saturation and a headphone amplifier with a discrete line mixer built-in, all fit in a half-rack chassis, making it ...

Cary Audio Design is now shipping the Cinema 12, a full-featured preamplifier processor, sharing many of the same features as its predecessor (Cinema 11a) while increasing the performance and ...

There’s magic in an LP’s grooves, and the ModWright PH 9.0 phono preamp lets you hear more of it. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a ...

One thing you find in the broad field of electrical engineering is that different industries, or even companies, may use different language to describe the same subject. For a successful design, it is ...

Class AB amplifiers have been around for a long time, and even with Class D designs becoming more common, there’s still a ...

It was a cold January Saturday night in Chicago and we had big plans. Buddy Guy’s Legends bar was packed. We setup directly under one of the PA speakers less than 15′ from the stage. Time to celebrate ...