Custom suppliers are turning increasingly to 12- and 16-channel amplifiers to drive down the cost and complexity of routing music throughout a house. In more and more cases, the amps incorporate ...

Monitor Audio’s Custom Installation Amplifiers 2G offer a wide range of power options for multi-room and dedicated home theater systems. If you think loudspeaker companies can survive only focused on ...

Upgraded for 2020, Parasound’s ZoneMaster Series multi-channel amplifiers offer more power while remaining stable at 2 ohms. The Parasound ZoneMaster 12, which replaces the ZoneMaster 1250, beefs up ...

PS Audio has just introduced two all-new stereo power amplifiers created to deliver reference-quality sound from a ...

1. Is Amplifier Weight an Indicator of Robust Amplifier Design? You have to find out if the amplifier is a Class A/B analog amp or a Class D digital amplifier before you can generalize about weight ...

I suspect a substantial number of people have an old pair of speakers sitting in storage: hand-me-downs from a family member, perhaps, or the remnants of a stereo of their youth. Such speakers can be ...

Most audiophiles and enthusiasts have grown up with at least a basic understanding of what an amplifier does. It takes a tiny alternating electrical signal that represents the moment-to-moment ...

One of my first jobs as an engineer was at Empire Scientific Corp. in Garden City, NY in 1972. This was a high-end audio company that made speakers, turntables and phonograph cartridges. We had some ...

A Class D audio amplifier is basically a switching amplifier or PWM amplifier. There are a number of different classes of amplifiers. We will take a look at the definitions for the main ...