It was a cold January Saturday night in Chicago and we had big plans. Buddy Guy’s Legends bar was packed. We setup directly under one of the PA speakers less than 15′ from the stage. Time to celebrate ...

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 ...

One thing you find in the broad field of electrical engineering is that different industries, or even companies, may use different language to describe the same subject. For a successful design, it is ...

Cranborne Audio has introduced its new Camden EC1, a desktop preamp with analog saturation and a headphone amplifier with a discrete line mixer built-in, all fit in a half-rack chassis, making it ...

High-end hi-fi brand McIntosh has announced a new preamplifier, and it's a suitably well-engineered proposition. The C12000 preamp has a unique two-chassis design that isolates the audio section from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. As part of its ongoing 30th-anniversary celebrations this ...

There’s magic in an LP’s grooves, and the ModWright PH 9.0 phono preamp lets you hear more of it. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a ...

Stylish 19-Tube Preamp Ingeniously Lets Users Select Input Tubes For Each Audio Source; Only One in the World to Do So Einstein Audio Components, a leading German designer and manufacturer of premium ...

What if a palm-sized amp could outperform larger, more expensive modules while delivering serious sound quality? Check out ...

Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems has announced the launch of the Momentum Z Monoblock Amplifier at $125,000 per pair amd ...

Most of today’s portable music comes by way of battery-powered audio devices. Of course, sound systems are available for outdoor use, but they can be quite expensive and, as discussed here, ...

Ultrafide Audio will unveil the ENSO INT-125 integrated amplifier at Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2026, a UK-built 125W design with DAC.