Fortin Amps has unveiled a preamp/distortion pedal that puts Meshuggah’s venue-levelling high-gain electric guitar tones into a compact stompbox. Designed by Mike Fortin, this signature pedal is based ...

We all know what distortion sounds like. We’ve heard it in heavy metal tunes, cheap iPod docks and the crummy speakers at Taco Bell drive-thrus. And we’ve all read distortion specs on things like ...

As we’ve traced our no-nonsense path through the world of Hi-Fi audio, we’ve started with the listener, understood the limitations of the human ear, and thence proceeded to the loudspeaker. We’ve ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Three toggle switches, 12 rotary controls and a five-band EQ mean this thing goes deep. But it's ...

Former Analog Devices great Walt Jung was nice enough to tip me off about Sam Groner’s website about audio applications. The site hosts a huge 313-page 24-megabyte pdf on operational amplifier ...

When using operational amplifiers, optimizing the layout to achieve the lowest large-signal distortion appears to be an abstract problem. A part might provide distortion as low as “100 dB when ...

The Marantz Link 10n 2.1CH streaming preamp delivers reference performance, stunning looks, and rich, engaging musicality—an ideal high-end hi-fi hub for discerning audiophiles of digital or analog ...

If you’ve ever glanced at the specifications sheet for an amplifier, one of the things you may have noticed is the amplifier’s class. Typically denoted by a letter or two, the most common amplifier ...

It can be hard getting your product to stand out at CES, so one good way of doing so is pretending it's January 7th and pushing out a press release prematurely. Pass Labs are bringing their new X260.5 ...

NAD Electronics, the highly regarded manufacturer of high-performance audio/video components, introduces the C 375BEE Integrated Amplifier and C 326BEE Stereo Integrated Amplifier, which combine ...

New operational amplifiers optimized for high-performance audio and ultrasound applications combine extremely low total harmonic distortion plus noise (THD+N), -130 dB, with large output voltages on ...