All items tagged with amplifiers (166)
Dayton Audio Offers Easy Wireless Audio with New DTA-2.1BT 100W Class D 2.1 Amplifier with Bluetooth
December 24, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Dayton Audio Offers Easy Wireless Audio with New DTA-2.1BT 100W Class D 2.1 Amplifier with Bluetooth

Dayton Audio introduced the updated DTA-2.1BT amplifier, a compact and lightweight Class D design that is perfect top bring new life to existing passive speakers. The DTA-2.1BT is able to adequately power most speakers, and also a passive subwoofer, allowing users to create an inexpensive and high-performance 2.1 set up for any office, bedroom, or small home theater. For just $99.00, it offers Bluetooth, RCA, and 3.5 mm inputs, and now features a crossover adjustment on the front panel.
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Hegel Pushes into CEDIA Channel with Modular High-Current Class-AB Mono-Block Amplifiers
November 29, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Hegel Pushes into CEDIA Channel with Modular High-Current Class-AB Mono-Block Amplifiers

Norwegian audio brand Hegel Music Systems, highly-regarded around the world for its award-winning integrated amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, digital-to-analog converters and CD players, announced the launch of its first amplifiers aimed at the home theater and distributed audio markets. Called the C5 Series, three models are available, the C53, C54 and C55, which are configured as 3, 4 and 5 channel amplifiers respectively. With MSRP starting at $6,000 and up depending on configuration, the amplifiers are now shipping to dealers.
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Avantone Pro Announces Classically-Designed Class A/B CLA-200 Amplifier
October 31, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Avantone Pro Announces Classically-Designed Class A/B CLA-200 Amplifier

Having recently made (sound) waves with its passive CLA-10 studio monitors, effectively bringing ‘back’ to market an iconic studio reference monitoring mainstay, affordable high-quality audio products producer Avantone Pro now announced availability of its complimentary CLA-200 Studio Reference Amplifier — a classically-designed Class A/B amplifier, also developed in close collaboration with GRAMMY Award-winning mix engineer Chris Lord-Alge, to whom it not only owes its ‘initials’ but also its very existence.
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Amplifier Series: Energy-Efficient Multi-Level Amplifier Solutions
October 3, 2018 by Ward Maas

Amplifier Series: Energy-Efficient Multi-Level Amplifier Solutions

Ward Maas writes about Danish-sensation Merus Audio, the company founded in 2010 by Hans Hasselby-Andersen and Mikkel Hoyerby, and recently acquired by Infineon Technologies. The article recalls how this Copenhagen-based start-up quickly ascended in the audio industry with its new generation of energy-efficient integrated Class-D amplifier solutions. This article was originally published in audioXpress. September 2018.
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Powersoft Takes Control of Sound Reinforcement with New ArmoníaPlus Software
October 3, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Powersoft Takes Control of Sound Reinforcement with New ArmoníaPlus Software

Already manufacturing the most ‘Green’ amplifiers in terms of carbon footprint, Powersoft is now poised to shred efficiency agendas with the launch of a radical new redesign of its system-centric ArmoníaPlus control software. Uniquely loudspeaker-oriented, the new ArmoníaPlus interface mimics the real-world and the physical process of audio design with a workflow approach that is both simple to use and easy to navigate.
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Differences in Amp Sound: How Do We Find the Truth?
August 29, 2018 by Richard Honeycutt

Differences in Amp Sound: How Do We Find the Truth?

audioXpress readers are well familiarized with Richard Honeycutt's Hollow State column. In many of his articles, Honeycutt explored distortion in a quest to find the origin of “tube sound.” In this article, he takes a more general view of possible amplifier differences, solid- or hollow-state, focusing on different amplifiers’s differences in sounds, and a correct subjective evaluation process of components and systems. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2012.
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Crest Audio Debuts C1 Series Contracting Amplifiers with Integrated DSP and Dante Connectivity
July 5, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Crest Audio Debuts C1 Series Contracting Amplifiers with Integrated DSP and Dante Connectivity

During InfoComm 2018 Crest Audio has unveiled the new C1 Series range of contracting and installation amplifiers featuring powerful and efficient Class D designs, on-board digital signal processing, Dante protocol networking and USB/Ethernet connectivity for monitoring and control. The new C1 Series amplifiers are contractor-friendly thanks to the addition of Euro connector inputs and barrier strip outputs as well as fault relays and CV (control voltage) inputs.
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Shunt or Not - Looking for the Ultimate Audio Voltage Regulator
June 27, 2018 by Are Waagbø

Shunt or Not - Looking for the Ultimate Audio Voltage Regulator

In this great article, author Are Waagbø, himself a confessed "a passionate 50-year-old hi-fi amateur, with many years of practice and experience," and admirer of Erno Borberly work and designs, shares his experience in the relentless search for "the ultimate audio voltage regulator." As Waagbø writes, "Testing more shunt models with selected components and numerous listening tests led to one current-source-fed super shunt, developed by Erno. I developed the PSU, which, together with the sophisticated shunt, sets a new standard for audio voltage regulators." This article was originally published in audioXpress, February 2008.
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Harman Professional Solutions Expands Dante-Enabled Crown DriveCore Install DA Amplifier Series
June 6, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Harman Professional Solutions Expands Dante-Enabled Crown DriveCore Install DA Amplifier Series

At InfoComm 2018, Harman Professional Solutions announced new members of the its successful Crown DriveCore Install DA Series of amplifiers. The newest members of Crown’s flagship line of networked install amplifiers feature support for Dante and AES67 networked audio at lower wattage than existing DA Series amplifiers. The new models also introduce new 300 and 600 watt options, offering the same robustness and capabilities of Crown’s DriveCore Install DA Series at lower wattage.
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Chord Electronics Introduces New Choral Etude Stereo Power Amplifier
May 22, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Chord Electronics Introduces New Choral Etude Stereo Power Amplifier

Chord Electronics has chosen High End 2018 to unveil a brand new analogue amplifier topology design, the company’s first for nearly 30 years. Although many improvements have been introduced along the way, the new Choral Etude stereo power amp provides a glimpse of what's coming for the British company, "highly advanced, it heralds a new era for powerful, wide bandwidth, low noise and low distortion amplifiers," Chord states.
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