Now that pretty much every major streaming music service — except Spotify — offers lossless audio options at CD-quality or better, you may be wondering how you can hear that extra level of sound ...

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 ...

Schiit Audio doesn't mess around. It offers U.S.-made high-performance audio products for super-affordable prices -- and here are two that are even cheaper. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

A headphone amplifier than can drive both planar magnetic and electrostatic headphones? The iFi iCAN Phantom has arrived for $3,749. Is it possible for one headphone amplifier to drive everything?

A D/A converter and headphone amplifier in one box. In lieu of connecting headphones to the analog audio-out headphone jack found on every computer and mobile device, the DAC/headphone amp provides ...

Last year, Gear Patrol contributing staff writer Eric Adams reviewed the Monoprice Stereo Hybrid Tube Amp that comes bundled two 50-watt speakers and 10-foot cables. His conclusion: “I had to keep ...

China's Fiio – which recently announced a mechanical keyboard with a built-in DAC – has launched a new flagship desktop media streamer and headphone amp/DAC combo that's dominated by a slick ...

Grand Rapids, Mich. – Pangea Audio combined a hybrid tube/solid-state headphone amp with a 192/24 USB DAC to create the $299 HP201, which joins a $199 model. The $299 HP201 and $199 HP101 combine a ...

Has the Pass Labs HPA-1 finally met its match? The SparkoS Labs Aries Headphone Amplifier joins some elite company in 2022. Sometimes, little ideas become big ones. The high-end audio DIY space has ...

What for a mobile DAC/headphone amp? The proliferation of truly mobile audio devices (post-Walkman/Discman), starting with the iPod, has made music-on-the-go a new norm, something taken for granted.

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At the extreme budget end of tube audio lie single-tube amplifiers usually using very cheap small-signal pentodes. They’ve appeared here before in various guises, and a fitting addition to those ...