The Manley Stingray Amplifier
Reviewing something as legendary as the Manley Stingray is like having a rock star paying a visit to your home. We’ve heard all the…
Amps
$60 Pack of Awesome: JDSLabs Cmoy
After finishing the portable amplifier shootout, a few people asked me if I could do a review on more affordable portable amps — additionally…
Uber Muzik Tiny Tube DAC
Okay, it’s the 1st of April, but this is not April fools. Louis from The Audio Hub sent me a unit of the Uber…
The Usual Suspects: 12 Portable Amps Compared
More and more I’m getting questions from people who are looking to purchase a portable amplifier and are confused over the choices available in…
RSA-SR71B First Impression
The SR-71B takes the concept of portable balanced amplification that was first introduced in the Protector and upped it even more. Reading the product…
Ibasso PB-2 First Impression
Here comes the new balanced amp from Ibasso! To counter RSA’s quad-mono SR-71b, Ibasso has created quite a monster portable amp in the form…
Vintage Headroom Amp
My buddy Questa sent me an old vintage HeadRoom amplifier. It doesn’t even have HeadRoom’s new logo on it. On the front faceplate, it…
Burson HA-160D Review
Australian manufacturer Burson has done well when they introduced themselves with the Burson HA-160 headphone amplifier last year. But the trend these days is…
Fiio E9 Desktop Amplifier
Last year, Fiio introduced their first digital-to-analog converter called the E7, that was based on Wolfson’s high end WM8740 D/A chip. The E7 was…
Headstage: The Arrow Amplifier
I think it was in 2008 that I discovered about the existence of a new amplifier called the Headstage Arrow. At that time, Robert…
Ortofon HD-Q7
I normally have a bias against tiny desktop amps, as they tend to not sound very good when compared to bigger sized amps of…
Superlux HA3D Amplifier
Taiwanese brand Superlux continues to introduce products that upsets the pricing standard of professional audio products. Not stopping with the HD668B monitoring headphone that…
Fiio E9 Video Review
Dave from DeckhandDavy makes nice video reviews on YouTube. And they happen to cover a lot of products that I think we are all…
What Came In The Mail Today
Too early to give any sound impression, but it does drive the Hifiman HE-6 and the Audez’e LCD-2 simultaneously without breaking a sweat. I…
ALO Rx Mk2
Building on the success of the first Rx amplifier, ALO has released a Mark-Two version of its popular Rx portable amplifier. The ALO Audio…