Category: Amplifiers
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]
Simon Audio Group i5 Integrated amplifier
November 24, 2018
As a professional musician, I am constantly analyzing sounds. Music is everywhere and in everything. Where are the sounds coming from and who or what is making them? It is such an integral part of [Read More]
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