AMPLIFICATION, EDITORIALS

Myths and realities of the most beloved and controversial class of audio amplification.

by Marco
Manunta
14.02.2024
Electrocompaniet ECI 3
AMPLIFICATION

In a period where the programmed obsolescence seems an ineluctable necessity, it is nice to bump into an amplifier that has been resisting for almost ten years in the catalogue of its manufacturer.

by Mauro
Cittadini
28.07.2016
EAR Yoshino 834
AMPLIFICATION

A very well made amplifier that plays wonderfully: a great exercise of style.

by Giuseppe
Trotto
01.06.2016
Yarland FV34B-V
AMPLIFICATION

Finally, a deep listening test of an amp with the EL34 tubes. With this apparatus, Mauro Scarabotti by AAAVT has largely confirmed my expectations.

by Fabio
Barbato
27.05.2016
Linear Tube Audio microZOTL
AMPLIFICATION

A headphone amp that goes beyond its purposes, provided with one of the more innovative circuitries made for the vacuum tubes: is this a High-End revolution?

by Giuseppe
Castelli
04.01.2016
Yarland FV-34C-V
AMPLIFICATION

I am currently moving towards moderate price devices, but with great sound. An itinerary that someone calls a downgrade.

by Fabio
Barbato
01.06.2015
AMPLIFICATION

The advantages of the class-A are undeniable. The power of an amplifier is not all, indeed! And there is another extreme, absolutely not secondary…

by Giuseppe
Trotto
29.04.2015
Symphonic Line Kraftquelle 2
AMPLIFICATION

I will be forgiven by who, reasonably, will consider the term esoteric very overused in our field, but for this solid German integrated amp, I just have to use it...

by Roberto
Fugito
07.04.2015
AMPLIFICATION

Four typologies of tube integrated amplifiers in one device only: a listening experience that worth its price.

by Giuseppe
Castelli
02.12.2013
AMPLIFICATION

A powerful but refined tube amplifier to enjoy all kind of music.

by Fabio
Barbato
22.10.2013
AMPLIFICATION

A full optional single ended transistor integrated amp – phono stage excluded – that inserts itself in a very hard-fought category and level: the new reference products of the Middleweight market.

by Francesco
Taddei
20.05.2013
AMPLIFICATION

An 80 watts integrated amplifier that includes, as common use for the noteworthy amplifiers, an internal digital converter in addition to a MM phono stage of great value.

by Roberto
Rocchi
28.01.2013
AMPLIFICATION, DIGITAL, LOUDSPEAKERS

DAC, headphone amplifier and speaker into a small cube of six centimeters. To bring someone closer to a first musical listening nothing comes to my mind that could be easier, accessible and performing than this portable system.

by Giuseppe
Castelli
12.12.2012
AMPLIFICATION

A compact integrated amplifier, designed to target the users of streaming music, worthy and advanced exponent of the recent progeny of class-D amps.

by Fabio
Barbato
03.12.2012
AMPLIFICATION

Innovative circuitry, soon with an international patent, for a musicality that joins the best of the tubes with the best of the solid-state amps. With these amazing credentials, BFA Tulip introduces itself beyond the frontiers of the common audio circuits.

by Gianluca
Polidoro
05.06.2012
KR Audio VA350
AMPLIFICATION

A superior quality in manufacture and musical refinement for a monotriode made around a tube that is unique in the world and comes from a brand that has shaped the history of the tube productions worldwide.

by Giuseppe
Castelli
18.04.2012
AMPLIFICATION, DIGITAL

I have tested the KingRex T20U both with the standard switching PSU and the partnering PSU MKII, which promises to make it reach primacy in the listening quality: a development of the T-Amp?

by Mauro
Simolo
13.04.2012
AMPLIFICATION

The RI-100 has the inborn capacity of preserving every single instrument, almost guiding it into a precise, marked and correctly recreated scenic context. It is easy to read also the instruments in the background hidden inside the instrumental amalgam.

by Paolo
Di Marcoberardino
10.04.2012
AMPLIFICATION

An integrated amp, a dedicated headphone amp and a tube preamplifier in a small gear at an entry-level price. Such products open the market to new categories of lovers of the good sound.

by Fabio
Barbato
22.02.2012
AMPLIFICATION

Delightfully, this historic brand of amplification makes a comeback in the limelight of the great sound: when British sound, Chinese production and Italian intuition give their best.

by Giuseppe
Trotto
11.02.2012
AMPLIFICATION

The resolution of making at home the transformers has been a forced choice for Trafomatic, so I warn you: if you opt for Trafomatic, you are going to choose a unique amplification. The same thing arose a couple of years ago when you had to decide for expensive Japanese amplifications.

by Roberto
Rocchi
06.11.2011
AMPLIFICATION

Hirtel's brand has been recognized and praised by Saul Marantz who said, after having visited the factory, that Hirtel is at the same level of the most qualified American and Japanese production.

by Giuseppe
Trotto
15.10.2011
AMPLIFICATION

Designing an OTL that works, and good, it is not that simple. The S.I. Audio Cult/I amp shows how much can be made with clear ideas.

by Paolo
Di Marcoberardino
20.09.2011
AMPLIFICATION

I find this amplifier very interesting from a listening point of view. It has shown a great synergy with the other components of my home system and without requiring any change in the set-up.

by Fabio
Barbato
14.07.2011
AMPLIFICATION

I think that the OTL technology, if properly made, can put together the purity and the transparency of the single-ended triodes with the power of the transistors, and the result is a splendid blending between dynamic force and naturalness in the emission.

by Roberto
Rocchi
30.06.2011
AMPLIFICATION

It is quite impossible to find at the same price products with the same sound quality of the P88i.

by Fabio
Barbato
07.06.2011

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