First spotted as a prototype in 2023, the Quad Platina Integrated is now finished; and it promises to be Quad's “finest-ever ...

Class D amps from $130 to $50,000—pulling more ears into hi-fi without demanding you sell a kidney. Solid tech, serious power, and none of the usual overpriced fluff. Finally, affordable doesn’t sound ...

Class D amps are simple – just take an input, and use that to modulate a square wave with PWM. Send this PWM signal to a MOSFET or something, and you have the simplest class D amp in existence.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., has introduced two digital-input Class D power amplifiers that simplify designs, eliminate complicated programming, reduce noise, and hasten time to market. The ...

Dallas, Tex. — Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has introduced a monolithic, filter-free Class-D audio amplifier with an integrated boost converter for portable applications including wireless handsets, ...

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 ...

The Typhon Mid-Range Capability system is one of the recently fielded U.S. weapons designed to counter China‘s growing ...

Conexant’s low-power CX20952 HD audio codec, replete with two cap-free headphone amplifiers and a fully integrated Class D amplifier, monitors power delivered to speakers to ensure maximum sound ...

Vintage style meets modern tech in the Quad 3 integrated amp with Class AB, Sabre DAC, MQA, Bluetooth 5.1, and versatile inputs. Available mid-June 2025. Quad has officially pulled the curtain back on ...

Smooth treble and warm midrange. Good bass output for power rating. Solid build quality, heavy. At maximum output, sound is still tolerable. All of the sonic advantages of tubes. AV123 is of a new ...

There’s a mystique in audiophile circles about tube amplifiers. They can have a very nice sound which is attributed to their even-harmonic distortion, but they are often portrayed as requiring rare ...