All items tagged with Class-A (10)

It's Tube Time! audioXpress May 2022 Glass Audio Special!

April 11, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

It's Tube Time! audioXpress May 2022 Glass Audio Special!

It's time for the Glass Audio/Tube Focus edition of audioXpress. In this issue, Michael Boele shares his long-term review of a pair of 2021 new production Western Electric 300Bs, Merlin Blencowe explains how to add Bluetooth to a Tube Amp, and Alan Kimmel introduces us to the possibilities of the Pentriode. There's also a Market Update report on vinyl sales and the latest trends in turntables and cartridges, as well as a review by Stuart Yaniger of the latest Orchard Audio Starkrimson Stereo Ultra GaN-based amplifier.

Naim Launches Uniti Atom Headphone Edition

May 11, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Naim Launches Uniti Atom Headphone Edition

Increasing the options for those wanting to upgrade their music source options for high-quality headphones, Naim Audio has launched Uniti Atom Headphone Edition – a headphone-optimized version of its original Uniti Atom music streaming system. Unlike traditional headphone amplifiers and DACs, which require a separate computer or streaming device, the new Uniti Atom Headphone Edition is a fully formed music-streaming system: just add headphones.

SPL Announces New Crescendo duo 2-Channel Microphone Preamplifier Featuring 120V Technology

April 1, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

SPL Announces New Crescendo duo 2-Channel Microphone Preamplifier Featuring 120V Technology

SPL of Germany has announced the new Crescendo duo mic preamplifier that extends the company's 120V technology portfolio with a two-channel version of the original SPL Crescendo. The Crescendo duo offers an entry-level solution to SPL 120V technology microphone preamplifiers, and is perfectly suited for the most demanding stereo recordings but is also ideal for mono signals such as vocals. SPL describes as "the ultimate front end for all professional recording studios."

Focal Unveils Arche DAC & Amplifier and Stellia Closed-Back Headphones

February 13, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Focal Unveils Arche DAC & Amplifier and Stellia Closed-Back Headphones

Focal is announcing its first foray into the DAC and amplifier market with the launch of Arche, an audiophile DAC and amplifier that is developed by Micromega for Focal. It combines a digital-analog converter, as well as two pure class-A amplification modes (voltage and hybrid) designed especially for headphones. At the same time, Focal announced a new headphone closed-back model. The Focal Stellia combines sound quality with a more sophisticated style "à la Française."

elysia Designs skulpter 500 Class-A Sound Shaping Recording Preamp

May 29, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

elysia Designs skulpter 500 Class-A Sound Shaping Recording Preamp

High-end studio processor manufacturer elysia announced availability of its new skulpter 500 sound shaping preamp — pushing its range of 500 Series recording hardware into another area of processing. According to the German company, the skulpter 500 is high quality recording preamp based on single resistors controlling a fully discrete Class-A amplifier capable of complementing any microphone or high-impedance instrumental source and adding two variable saturation/filter stages and an intelligent onboard compressor.

Audient Announces New iD44 USB Audio Interface

January 30, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Audient Announces New iD44 USB Audio Interface

British manufacturer Audient raised the stakes once again with the release of its latest, and to date most powerful 24-bit/96kHz desktop audio interface. The new Audient iD44 combines four Class-A Audient preamplifiers, high quality AD/DA converters, two ADAT I/Os for digital expansion, two discrete JFET instrument inputs, two fully balanced inserts, two independent stereo headphone outputs and two speaker outputs, in a metal chassis with configurable function keys, and dedicated Talkback, Dim and Cut controls.

Sound Devices Expands MixPre Series with New MixPre-10T Audio Recorder

October 9, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Sound Devices Expands MixPre Series with New MixPre-10T Audio Recorder

When it comes to field recording, Sound Devices continues to push the envelope with its expanded range of solutions. With the new MixPre-10T, the Reedsburg, Wisconsin, -based company now offers a compact, 10-input/12 tracks of polyphonic WAV file recording and mixer with an expanded feature set, including built-in Timecode generator and reader, balanced outputs, diverse powering, and auto copying. An ideal solution for production sound mixers, field recordists, sound designers, and musicians.

You can DIY! The F5 Power Amplifier

July 4, 2016 by Nelson Pass

You can DIY! The F5 Power Amplifier

In 2008, Nelson Pass submitted an article on its new F5 power amplifier design to audioXpress. At the time, he wrote: “I feel that it’s important to support AudioXpress, a magazine with which I have a 35 year history, and which also serves as a mainstay for the DIY community. Lately they have kindly printed projects that I had already posted on the web, but I decided that they deserve a little better than that.” Effectively, the F5 project was published in May 2008 and had a huge impact on the global DIY community and certainly contributed for the fact that audioXpress is still around today.

Crane Song Shows New Avocet II Monitor Controller and Insigna Tube Equalizer

October 21, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

Crane Song Shows New Avocet II Monitor Controller and Insigna Tube Equalizer

Crane Song by Dave Hill introduced two new products at the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles. The Avocet II discrete class A monitor controller, the latest iteration of one of Crane Song’s best-selling hardware products, features an entirely new DAC and also offers significantly improved jitter performance. The Insigna Tube Equalizer, featuring three bands of EQ plus selectively variable high and low pass filters, is the third 500 Series module from Crane Song.

PreSonus Proposes New Mobile Recording Solutions for Mac, Windows, and iPad

July 17, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

PreSonus Proposes New Mobile Recording Solutions for Mac, Windows, and iPad

Audio Professionals are increasingly using Apple’s iPad in live sound and in the studio. PreSonus proposes a complete integrated solution using an iPad also as a mobile recording solution, combining the new Capture software for iPad and its AudioBox range of interfaces, creating a bridge with Mac and Windows workstations.