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Around this time last year, Astell&Kern combined a digital audio player and desktop headphone amplifier into a single device for the launch of the Acro CA1000. Now a new model joins the family, which is built around a dual-tube Triple Amp System and is… Continue reading A&K first with flagship ESS DAC for portable hybrid audio system
Tokyo-based high-end audio brand Rotel has launched an integrated hi-fi amplifier that allows direct access to popular streaming services from the unit itself, in addition to offering wireless playback and analog connection to other hi-fi components. J… Continue reading Rotel launches its first integrated network streamer
Last year, Roland rebranded its capable long-running combo amp for street musicians with the Boss logo. Now the companies continues the Boss Cube line with a pair of practice amps – one for guitarists and the other for bass players.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Boss gets in the practice zone with portable Cube amps for guitar and bass
Denmark’s Audiocase has launched a pair of super-loud portable Bluetooth speakers on Kickstarter that can also serve as a battery powered PA, guitar or vocal amp, daisy chained sound system or party karaoke machine.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Tech… Continue reading Slick portable speakers can stack for music party wall of sound
Back in 2019, Positive Grid launched an extraordinary practice amp for guitarists called the Spark. We got to take one for review last year and were mighty impressed. Now the company has launched a Mini version with a built-in battery for play anywhere… Continue reading Positive Grid downsizes Spark smart guitar amp with battery-powered Mini
Denmark’s Kombo Audio has combined a battery-powered amplifier, PA system, mixer, effects and wireless connectivity for a sound system specifically designed for musicians, allowing for live performances in the back yard, at the beach or out at sea.Cont… Continue reading Danish startup launches modular wireless PA system for roving players
New York’s high-end audio gear maker McIntosh Labs has reworked the iconic monoblock amplifier that powered the sound system at the 1969 Woodstock music and art fair. Rocking the spirit of the original amps, the MC3500 Mk II has a similar outward appea… Continue reading McIntosh revives the spirit of Woodstock with MC3500 Mk II amp
Startup Amonito has launched an all-in-one guitar amplification package shaped roughly like an ammonite that offers analog tube-driven sounds and digital effects. And there’s a lot to like here, apart from the rather high price of entry.Continue Readin… Continue reading Shapely hybrid floor amp combines tube-driven sound with digital smarts
As we’ve traced our no-nonsense path through the world of Hi-Fi audio, we’ve started with the listener, understood the limitations of the human ear, and thence proceeded to the loudspeaker. …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Amplifiers And Distortion
Paul Reed Smith Guitars has tapped into the Woodstock spirit for two new rig additions to its HXDA family, the PRS HX100 and HX50 amplifiers, which are inspired by a newly documented Jimi Hendrix touring amp circuit.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Tec… Continue reading PRS loads authentic Hendrix tone into new HX guitar amps