Category: Amplifiers
Audio Valve Solaris Headphone amplifier
September 15, 2019
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum! I’m speaking of CanJam 2019, the market for headphones and headphone amplifiers. Then again at the Chicago Axpona held this past spring, it was a [Read More]
Audio Valve Challenger 115/180 monoblocks
August 16, 2019
Audio Valve is a high-end audio company located in Kassel, Germany. Founded by Helmut Becker, who developed a passion for tube technology early in his life which led to lifelong love affair with tube technology. [Read More]
Graham Slee Accession MC Moving Coil Phono Preamplifier
July 28, 2019
After my ecstatic listening experiences with the Graham Slee moving-magnet Accession phono preamp, reading of Slee’s travails in developing a low-output MC version Accession at his UK website’s Forum section (here) did not [Read More]
Graham Slee Proprius Monoblock Power Amplifiers
June 30, 2019
My recent experiences reviewing Graham Slee’s top phono stages – the Accession MM (moving-magnet sensitivity) and the Accession MC (low output moving-coil) – left me so impressed with their musical and sonic [Read More]
Saturn Audio 601 Stereo Amplifier
June 23, 2019
I became very interested in Saturn Audio once I found out that Gilbert Yeung, he of Blue Circle Audio fame, would be designing and building electronics for them. When Yeung asked me if [Read More]
VALVET A4e Monoblock amplifier
June 9, 2019
I wasn’t aware of Valvet, having missed Key Kim’s review of the A4e’s predecessor, the A3.5’s, in 2009. The A4-CB’s garnered inclusion in StereoTimes’ Most Wanted Component Award” winner for the year. As such, I [Read More]
Schiit Audio Aegir Class A Power Amplifier
June 1, 2019
Schiit Audio is the most maverick of a group of companies that have risen to prominence in recent years serving the Computer World market. Initially focusing on small, high-quality inexpensive DAC’s, headphone amps, and [Read More]
McIntosh MA5300
May 8, 2019
For me, owning McIntosh is a comforting feeling like a pair of favorite slippers or T-shirt. A McIntosh integrated amplifier was my first piece of real high-end equipment. I still remember it fondly. The [Read More]
Alexus Audio 845SE Single-Ended mono amplifiers
April 7, 2019
After moving on from my long-time reference Eminent Technology LFT-8b’s loudspeakers (inefficient but wonderful) ) to the Tekton Double Impact’s (SUPER efficient and wonderful), I received word that Alex Chorine of Alexus Audio had [Read More]
MastersounD BoX Integrated Amplifier
December 1, 2018
Late last year, I had a chat with Robert Maicks of Star Sound Technologies when he mentioned that he would be at this year’s AXPONA show and that we would plan run into one [Read More]
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