At $1,999, Orchard Audio Valencia is a balanced desktop power amplifier designed for headphones, but powerful enough for speakers. Having just driven past an orange grove in Florida earlier this week, ...

Onkyo is marking its 80th anniversary with the HA-70, a desktop unit that pairs a headphone amplifier with a DAC and is built ...

With fully balanced and improved circuitry throughout, the BAT VK-85 Preamp and REX 300 Amp claim pure musicality from a $27,500 combo. The REX 300 is a lower-powered version of the highly regarded ...

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The HiBy W4 portable headphone amplifier delivers high-resolution music playback using the LDAC and aptX Adaptive/HD/Lossless codecs with Bluetooth headphones or using the DSD512 and PCM 768 kHz ...

Looking for a cool running new amplifier? Outlaw Audio's Model 7220 is a seven channel class AB fully balanced amp rated to deliver 220W per channel into an 8-ohm load with all seven channels driven.

Accuphase’s E-6000 replaces the E-5000 as its most powerful integrated amplifier: 260wpc, Balanced AAVA with ANCC, two option ...

YBA YP302 headphone amplifier and preamplifier launches in Japan at ¥715,000, delivering both 4.4mm Pentaconn and XLR 4-pin balanced outputs with 7.3W at 32 ohms. Shanling-invested YBA debuts at ...

We published a design for a stereo microphone preamplifier with balanced inputs and a phantom power supply. The heart of this circuit was a special Analog Devices IC, the SSM2017. Unfortunately, this ...

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The purpose of a balanced audio interface is to efficiently transfer signal voltage from driver to receiver while rejecting ground noise. Used with suitable cables, the interface can also reject ...