Designed in Germany and made in China, this relatively affordable but versatile integrated combines a tubed input stage with an output stage biased to deliver the first 10W of the maximum 8 ohm power of 180W in class-A. The single AEG 85A2 tube that peers out from the faceplate window is...
Class ratings are based on performance, but different reviewers value different aspects of performance, so it's best not to expect thematic or methodological consistency. You'll find high-tech amplifiers with vanishingly low noise and distortion listed alongside old-school tube amps; what they share...
Stereophile covers everything high-end and audiophile audio. Turntables and music servers, to solid-state and tube amplifiers and preamps, to loudspeakers.
For the SAGA, Siltech’s engineers chose to rethink the structure of amplifier gain. Though the SAGA has two cases, they are not monoblocks, nor are they of equal size. Each serves a different purpose, and both are required. One chassis contains the V1, a battery-powered, tubed, stereo...
Recommended Components Fall 2024 Edition Headphones A+: ampsandsound Bigger Ben: $5600 See “Integrated Amplifiers.” Audeze LCD-5: $4500 ($22,950 with headphone amplifier) The open-back LCD-5 is the successor to Audeze’s well-regarded LCD-4 and, like its predecessor, uses planar-magnetic...
Art's ATM-1S was a step in a long succession of tube amplifiers produced by AirTight since its 1986 founding. First came the original ATM-1; AirTight has also produced the ATM-2 (which used KT88 tubes), the ATM-4 (6L6GCs), the 1S that Art reviewed (EL34s; the S stood for "...
Single-ended triode amplifiers (SETs) have a considerable following, but even their most devoted fans admit that its maximum power output is not among an SET's strengths. You'd be lucky to get an SET that puts out 7Wpc, and some (like those using the 45 tube) are closer to 2Wpc. ...
amplifiers that are comfortable with 4 ohm loads" are recommended. In all, JA found measured performance that was "excellent, especially considering its affordable price." (Vol.41 No.12 WWW) D Audioengine A2+: $249/pair $$$ ★(stands optional)...
And in Amplification, single-box integrated amplifiers go up against separates, and low-power tube designs compete with high-power, solid state behemoths. In Budget Product of the Year and Product of the Year, products from every category competed against each other: Out of all the products ...
Old-school audiophiles like me cling to our vinyl records and CDs. We spin them on turntables and slide them into transports, which send electric signals through wires to solid state or tubed amplifiers—a string of hardware devices. But, despite our object-attached ways, we're quite aware ...