Here’s how it works. Every surround-sound system starts with one thing: an AV receiver. The AVR (also known simply as an amplifier) is the beating heart of any setup, powering the speakers and acting ...

The amplifier remains a transformative invention for being able to receive the human voice and boost it so thousands of people can hear it at once. Without the microphone, politics itself may have ...

Recently, AMP hosted indie band COIN and hip-hop artist Sean Kingston. The most famous performer to visit the College was 22-time Grammy Award winner and rapper Kendrick Lamar, who headlined in 2013.

In 1962, high import taxes made it impossible for Jim Marshall, a music-store owner in London, to meet demand for popular American-made Fender amplifiers, and he set out to create his own.

Last week Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed an entire milliwatt amplifier, circuitry and all, contained in a single block of germanium hardly bigger (one-thousandth of a cubic inch) than the head ...

Pedal amps aim to deliver the sound, feel and response of (usually) a tube amp, all in something that fits on your pedalboard. Some of the best pedal amps might only give you one style of amp - so ...

Musical Fidelity’s Nu-Vista 600.2 is an all-analogue (no streaming, no DAC), dual mono amplifier offering 160wpc into 8 Ohms and 300wpc into 4 Ohms. It is even 2 Ohm stable. On the bulky chassis’s ...

Here’s how it works. The beating heart of any hi-fi separates system, the stereo amplifier is what takes in your sources (CD player, turntable, music streamer) and amplifies their signals to an output ...

The idea of making your own semiconductors from scratch would be more attractive if it weren’t for the expensive equipment and noxious chemicals required for silicon fabrication. But simple ...

Integrated amplifiers have become very popular again with audiophiles for a few reasons and we think it’s fair to say that expensive separates are becoming less relevant. Build quality matters.

AV receivers are classified based on how many speakers they can power. The more amp channels and power, the higher the price. Room correction Room correction adjusts your speakers’ performance ...

The best affordable phono preamplifiers will likely do a much better job than the internal phono stage inside of your amplifier and offer greater flexibility with both MC and MM cartridges. What ...