Custom suppliers are turning increasingly to 12- and 16-channel amplifiers to drive down the cost and complexity of routing music throughout a house. In more and more cases, the amps incorporate ...

Monitor Audio’s Custom Installation Amplifiers 2G offer a wide range of power options for multi-room and dedicated home theater systems. If you think loudspeaker companies can survive only focused on ...

Home audio electronics manufacturer Rotel has been known worldwide for creating components that deliver serious audio and video performance at affordable prices. At CEDIA Expo 2009, Rotel will do it ...

WiiM caused something of a splash here at What Hi-Fi? HQ last year with its five-star Pro Plus music streamer, and the company will be hoping to repeat that success as it expands into the world of ...

The final amplifier is the power source of every audio installation. Its job is to convert a small alternating voltage into a powerful signal for driving loudspeakers with as little distortion as ...

I suspect a substantial number of people have an old pair of speakers sitting in storage: hand-me-downs from a family member, perhaps, or the remnants of a stereo of their youth. Such speakers can be ...

1. Is Amplifier Weight an Indicator of Robust Amplifier Design? You have to find out if the amplifier is a Class A/B analog amp or a Class D digital amplifier before you can generalize about weight ...

One of my first jobs as an engineer was at Empire Scientific Corp. in Garden City, NY in 1972. This was a high-end audio company that made speakers, turntables and phonograph cartridges. We had some ...

After the success of last year's Puccini amplifier revamp, Audio Analogue has applied the 'anniversary' treatment to it's much admired Maestro integrated amp When you purchase through links on our ...

Most audiophiles and enthusiasts have grown up with at least a basic understanding of what an amplifier does. It takes a tiny alternating electrical signal that represents the moment-to-moment ...

A relatively new technology called the pure digital or Class-D amplifier has been introduced into the audio world. The Class-D architecture allows the input audio signal to stay in its digital format ...