Category: Amplifiers

Master Sound 845 mono amplifiers

March 10, 2010

Master Sound 845 mono amplifiers Hidden Jewels    March 2010      Over the years I have traveled to many high-end shows and listened to many systems and I’ve always had a soft spot for [Read More]

Wyred 4 Sound STI-500 Integrated Amplifier

February 9, 2010

Wyred 4 Sound STI-500 Integrated Amplifier More Pop for the Peso!    February 2010     Wyred 4 Sound began life after its owner EJ Sarmento rose up through the ranks at Cullen Circuits and [Read More]

Vitus Audio SL-010 Preamp and SM-010 Mono Amps

January 5, 2010

Vitus Audio SL-010 Preamp and SM-010 Mono Amps Higher End Audio   January 2010        Hans Ole Vitus has quickly become one of my favorite audio designers. Not simply because he designs and builds audio [Read More]

Emotive Audio’s Poeta Preamp: Poetic Justice

January 1, 2010

Fred Volz, the proprietor of Emotive Audio, hand builds what could be described as “bespoke” audio components in his shop in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He has a range of standard models: three pre-amps, one phono-stage, and [Read More]

Elliott Studio Arts Series Sixty-Six Vacuum Tube Stereo Amplifier

December 16, 2009

  Beauty AND the Beast    December 2009   Over the years I’ve traveled to many places in pursuit of “perfect sound.” From the world’s greatest high-end shows in Munich, Germany to the world’s largest high-end [Read More]

Blue Circle Audio BC703 High Precision Reference

June 15, 2009

Blue Circle Audio BC703 High Precision Reference Phonostage Analog excellence in a digital world    June 2009              Blue Circular FlexibilityI really hadn’t taken Gilbert Yeung, chief oracle at Blue Circle Audio, seriously when [Read More]

BURMESTER 051 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

May 1, 2009

  Now That’s Delight    May 2009    On the night that Villanova clinches a spot in the men’s basketball Final Four with a runner in the last .5 seconds to upset the University of [Read More]

Bel Canto REF1000 MKII Amplifier

April 15, 2009

Bel Canto REF1000 MKII Amplifier      April 2009       “Fundamentally, the amplifier should make people happy.” -Nelson Pass Like many audiophiles, I have an ongoing desire to make my stereobetter. Unlike many audiophiles, I [Read More]

Nuforce P-9 Preamp

February 23, 2009

Nuforce P-9 Preamp A Rhapsody of Fluidity    February 2009        Back in the spring of ’06 I did a follow-up to Frank Alles’ wonderful review of the Nuforce 8’s. Life has been grand living [Read More]

Audio Analogue Maestro Duecento Integrated Amp and Maestro CD Player

September 26, 2008

Audio Analogue Maestro Duecento Integrated Amp and Maestro CD Player Bellissimo!   September 2008               On a trip to Paris a few years ago, I was in a taxi heading to theMusée d’Orsay when I commented [Read More]

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