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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