H x W x D (inches) = 4 x 18 x 17.5 Technological progress is a wonderful thing. Over the past 40 years or so, we’ve seen computers that filled an entire room get eclipsed in processing power by ones ...

Has your spouse been bugging you to get those speakers you’ve been holding on to thrown in the garbage? You know, the ones you never use because they’re old school red and black wires and you have a ...

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 ...

When the world's first commercially available audio product using a digital amplifier appeared in 1998, it created quite a stir with its performance and ease of use. Digital amplifiers provide several ...

As Axiom’s chief R&D engineer Tom Cumberland describes it, a digital amplifier is a “power DAC”, and of course a DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) is the basis of all digitally recorded media, whether ...

Determined to close out the year with one more big product lineup, Cambridge Audio is at it again today launching its new premium EX Series, which consists of the powerful new EXA100 Stereo Integrated ...

The common metrics for amplifier performance show excellent performance, especially if a detailed analysis is conducted. Figure 6 shows THD over a range of output powers. Of significant interest is ...

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 ...

The McIntosh C2700 preamplifier is fitted with the new DA2 digital module and will, no doubt, be upgradeable to the DA3 in a few years. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the audio industry has ...

Like the Sonos Amp, the Bose Music Amplifier is an all-in-one wireless audio component for those who already own (or intend to buy) a set of wired speakers. In fact, as long as you don’t mind ...

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