Integrated amplifiers have become very popular again with audiophiles for a few reasons and we think it’s fair to say that expensive separates are becoming less relevant. Build quality matters.

If you’ve wondered what a preamplifier is, what it exactly does, and whether your audio setup is missing one, we’ve got the ...

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 ...

Full bass management is a rarely found feature in stereo integrated amps, but the Parasound Halo has it, along with superb sound. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

If there is a single species of audio component that has gained popularity over the past few years, it would have to be the integrated amplifier; a single box whose entrails combine a control ...

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 ...

Balanced Music Concept (B.M.C.) Audio introduced the high-end AMP CS2 integrated stereo amplifier with a built-in power amp upgrade option. The AMP CS2 can change from operating as an integrated ...

Dan D’Agostino recognizes that only a handful of music lovers are prepared to dedicate a miniature skyscraper’s worth of space—and an equally towering financial outlay—to build a comprehensive ...

The RA-1570 is an absolutely gorgeous integrated amp that sounds even better than it looks. It’s kind of ridiculous that it took so long for the integrated amplifier to catch up to the 21st Century — ...

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One of my first jobs as a freshly minted graduate engineer involved the maintenance of a set of analogue chart recorders. They were museum pieces by the early 1990s: a motorized roll of graph paper ...

In 2020, Virgil Abloh, the late artistic director at Louis Vuitton and founder of Off-White, started developing an artistic proposal for McIntosh, with the hope that it would lead to a special series ...