We’ve said it over and over again: integrated amplifiers are the future of hi-fi. They’re the central hub to the modern hi-fi system, acting as a power amplifier with a multitude of wired and wireless ...

If you’re building a hi-fi system, amplification is a necessary cog in the chain. While your source (turntable, streamer etc) plays your music and your speakers output it, the middle-man amplifier ...

If you're at all an enthusiast of great-sounding music and are looking to up your game to make what you're playing sound its best, it's hard to be a great stereo receiver or integrated amplifier.

A combination preamp/amplifier, typically for two-channel stereo. The preamp provides the input switching and phonograph equalization, and the amplifier boosts the signals to the speakers. Integrated ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

As for those digital-to-analog conversions, the A8 Apex and A10 Apex use the same “high-quality” DAC (ESS9018). While the flagship A12 Apex has been given a top-tier ESS9039 DAC for “ultimate audio ...

It may look like a vintage 1970's amp, but Yamaha's all-new A-S801 sounds like the 2015 component that it is. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio ...

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New Zealand’s most famous Rugby team may be the All Blacks, but New Zealand’s most famous amplifier manufacturer, Perreaux, is making its two newest integrated amplifiers available in all the colours ...