Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The headphone amp is a device that uses a digital-to-analog (DAC) converter to turn the low-voltage audio signal from your digital ...

FiiO's $380 CLASS A headphone amp can switch to Class AB with low-impedance headphones. Here's what FiiO says and why the ...

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McIntosh is as all-American as high-end audio ever gets. The company was founded in 1949 and has been based in Binghamton, N.Y., for as long as I can remember. McIntosh still designs and builds all of ...

Are you old enough to remember when Japanese audio components ruled the mass market? That was in the early 1970s, when stereo receivers and integrated amplifiers had a place of honor in every music ...

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Audiophiles around the globe know that putting a great record on and listening through headphones is one of the surest paths to joy. But what if your phone doesn’t have a headphone jack? What if your ...

Once a discarded relic, over the years the humble vacuum tube has been rehabilitated in the arena of specialist audio. There are plenty of tube amplifiers now being manufactured, with a popular choice ...

The Crab that Rules Windows AudioThe "crab" referred to here is the onboard audio codec made by Realtek, which is installed ...

Marantz, McIntosh, NAD, Cambridge Audio, Arcam, PS Audio and more have all released new amplifiers so far this year.