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Totally Tubular
Take advantage of the tube amp resurgence — without spending a fortune When it comes to tubes, I guess you could say I’m, well, biased. I like the way tube amps look, I like the way they sound, I like...
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Five Vintage Amps and Preamps to Add to Your eBay Watch List
These old-school components still sound great today — and you can pick 'em up for a song. Tech ^2 A five-year-old surround-sound receiver has all the appeal of a five-year-old banana. But a...
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Review: Qinpu Q-2 Integrated Amplifier
The weakest (but possibly coolest) amp we’ve ever tested Tech ^2 Maybe back in the 1920s, when Sound + Vision was called Superheterodyne Journal, we might have reviewed some giant tube amplifier that...
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Review: PS Audio PerfectWave System
The most significant improvement of any audio component I’ve ever added to my system. Peanut butter and chocolate. Wine and cheese. Lennon and McCartney. Some things are great on their own, but when...
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Review: Integra DHC-80.3 A/V Controller
Audyssey MultEQ XT32, 4K video, and Spotify streaming. That’s just a sampling of the features to be found in Integra’s latest, greatest pre-pro. How long have Integra’s A/V preamplifier/processors been...
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Review: Pass Labs INT-150 Integrated Amplifier
A minimalist integrated amp offers sound quality that challenges state-of-the-art separates. Few audio companies are as closely associated with a single individual as Pass Laboratories is with its...
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Mark Levinson on Daniel Hertz: One More Time
A high-end pioneer creates what he says will be his last audio system. Tech ^2 The name Mark Levinson is familiar even to those who couldn’t care less about audio. It’s been mentioned in numerous Lexus...
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Test Report: Bryston SP-3 Preamplifier/Processor and 9BSST2 5-Channel Amplifier
Serious construction, and seriously good sound. It’s a fact of modern life. The higher you climb in the high end of anything, the less, at least in one sense, you will get. You will find, I believe,...
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New Gear: Emotiva Introduces the Affordable, Feature-Packed XMC-1 7.2 Channel...
Tons of connectivity and control, at the company's usual rock-bottom prices New Gear Affordable audiophile and home-theater gear leaders Emotiva have announced the new XMC-1, the first product to...
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Review: Wyred4Sound Mini MC 5-Channel Power Amplifier
Five transparent, muscular channels of ICEPower from the upstart California shop I am of the school that believes that more power is always better than less power. That school also professes that...
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