One of my first jobs as an engineer was at Empire Scientific Corp. in Garden City, NY in 1972. This was a high-end audio company that made speakers, turntables and phonograph cartridges. We had some ...

Nagra’s $24,500 PREAMP II-S is considered one of the company’s more affordable preamps. That alone tells you exactly who this is for—and who it isn’t.

Cary Audio Design is now shipping the Cinema 12, a full-featured preamplifier processor, sharing many of the same features as its predecessor (Cinema 11a) while increasing the performance and ...

Cranborne Audio has introduced its new Camden EC1, a desktop preamp with analog saturation and a headphone amplifier with a discrete line mixer built-in, all fit in a half-rack chassis, making it ...

What if a palm-sized amp could outperform larger, more expensive modules while delivering serious sound quality? Check out ...

One thing you find in the broad field of electrical engineering is that different industries, or even companies, may use different language to describe the same subject. For a successful design, it is ...

Class AB amplifiers have been around for a long time, and even with Class D designs becoming more common, there’s still a ...

High-end hi-fi brand McIntosh has announced a new preamplifier, and it's a suitably well-engineered proposition. The C12000 preamp has a unique two-chassis design that isolates the audio section from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. As part of its ongoing 30th-anniversary celebrations this ...