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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phono Preamps are very practical for Vinyl Record enthusiasts, but is the $4900 Grimm Audio PW1 worth it? The PW1 has the initials of chief designer Peter van Willenswaard, co-founder of Grimm Audio.

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 ...

Stylish 19-Tube Preamp Ingeniously Lets Users Select Input Tubes For Each Audio Source; Only One in the World to Do So Einstein Audio Components, a leading German designer and manufacturer of premium ...

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 ...

Audio Research is continuing its 50th anniversary celebrations with the launch of the LS28SE preamplifier, which brings performance improvements over the 2016-launched LS28 it replaces. The new, ...

Half as heavy but with all the tone of its predecessor, Steve Stevens calls it "a great piece of gear!" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Industry veteran Paul Hales has an impressive resume dating back 30 years with the development of his first commercial loudspeaker at age 22. Since then Paul has lent his design talents to Samsung, ...

Most of today’s portable music comes by way of battery-powered audio devices. Of course, sound systems are available for outdoor use, but they can be quite expensive and, as discussed here, ...