If you’re building a hi-fi system, amplification is a necessary cog in the chain. While your source (turntable, streamer etc) plays your music and your speakers output it, the middle-man amplifier ...

If you're at all an enthusiast of great-sounding music and are looking to up your game to make what you're playing sound its best, it's hard to be a great stereo receiver or integrated amplifier.

If there is a single species of audio component that has gained popularity over the past few years, it would have to be the integrated amplifier; a single box whose entrails combine a control ...

We first spied a prototype of Quad's Platina Series at the High End Munich show in 2023, but now it's getting an official roll out. The jewel in its crown? The Platina Integrated, which Quad claims is ...

NAD’s new Classic Series C 399 integrated amp ($1,999) delivers 180 watts of nCore amplification and features tech previously found only in the brand’s more expensive Masters Series amps. Read on.

It’s been five years in the making and now QUAD, the classic British hi-fi brand, says it is finally ready to launch its most accomplished range of audio electronics yet. The new Platina Series is ...

Following an international debut at the High End audio show in Munich last year, UK hi-fi brand Chord Electronics has now announced global availability of its "class-leading" 125-watt Ultima ...

While nearly all integrated amps are two-channel affairs, the HiFi Rose RA180 is actually a four-channel amp, as it contains four mono amplifier modules that can be configured to work in various ways.

I finally decided to drop some cash on decent speakers and now I need an Amp to drive them. I have B&W 601 S2 speakers and the audio feed will come from my computer. The two specific models I've been ...

"Audio High Product Profile" is a column by Michael Silver, resident audiophile and home theater expert for the Mountain View, California audio/video store. Each month Silver profiles one of the store ...