Our picks for the best desktop and portable DAC/Amps for audiophiles of 2025 include Burson Audio, JDS Labs, FiiO, iFi Audio ...

Our picks for the best dedicated headphone amplifiers for audiophiles includes Apos, Feliks Audio and STAX.

The big change is that Schiit has incorporated each with its Mesh conversion technology, which essentially performs a similar ...

The DL400 is a high-powered desktop amp with impressive specification and a very competitive price tag. SMSL has developed a ...

Now that pretty much every major streaming music service — except Spotify — offers lossless audio options at CD-quality or better, you may be wondering how you can hear that extra level of sound ...

Using a high speed buffer BUF634 and op amp OPA627, a headphone amplifier has been built for home use to produce a clear and precise sound. The BUF634 is a high-speed, unity-gain, open-loop buffer ...

Schiit Audio doesn't mess around. It offers U.S.-made high-performance audio products for super-affordable prices -- and here are two that are even cheaper. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

A D/A converter and headphone amplifier in one box. In lieu of connecting headphones to the analog audio-out headphone jack found on every computer and mobile device, the DAC/headphone amp provides ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

The circuit aims to produce a headphone amplifier that would use a single integrated circuit TDA2004 to perform all the necessary functions. TDA2004 – a class B dual audio power amplifier in multiwatt ...

At the extreme budget end of tube audio lie single-tube amplifiers usually using very cheap small-signal pentodes. They’ve appeared here before in various guises, and a fitting addition to those ...