Centrance Brings AMPmini Class A Headphone Amp to High End Munich 2024

Announced in 2023 and already demonstrated at some of the recent CanJam events, Centrance is now closer to shipping its latest AMPmini, an 8-Watt compact headphone amplifier with a variable tube preamp that allows choosing the amount of tube tone to taste. This unique design perfectly complements the company's DACmini 2 balanced desktop DAC/amp, both featuring a compact aluminum chassis that is designed to stack with the Apple Mac mini or the new Mac Studio, to create a complete premium sound solution for the modern desktop.

NAD Electronics announced the new and improved NAD Masters M10 V2 BluOS Streaming Amplifier, which continues its “just add speakers” revolution of Hi-Fi. The M10 V2 features 100 watts per channel of amplification and BluOS streaming capabilities, and adds the capability to expand with Dolby Digital Surround decoding, an enclosed IR remote control, and updated gain algorithms. It ships globally in August 2021 and will retail for US $2,749.

Røde Microphones introduced the latest addition to its best-selling VideoMic range, the VideoMic NTG. Released fresh off the back of the NTG5 broadcast shotgun microphone, the VideoMic NTG is introduced by the Australian company as "another gamechanger," and "an incredible-sounding, supremely versatile on-camera shotgun microphone unlike anything else out there." And there's a reason for excitement, since a lot has been happening lately at Røde to support a development like the NTG.