High-end hi-fi brand McIntosh has announced a new preamplifier, and it's a suitably well-engineered proposition. The C12000 preamp has a unique two-chassis design that isolates the audio section from ...

Old-school tubes and new-school high-resolution digital decoding put in an appearance in the latest three stereo analog preamps from luxury-audio maker McIntosh. The Fine Sounds brand introduced two ...

Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems has just announced the Relentless Preamplifier, the companion model to the company's 2018-issue flagship Relentless Mono amplifier. Yes, it has taken over three ...

The McIntosh C12000 Preamplifier goes both ways; tube and solid state and is the perfect companion to the MC3500 MMKII Tube Amplifier. The hardest part of our recent McIntosh factory tour was keeping ...

At $50K, the Momentum C4 preamplifier gets a new remote and works seamlessly with optional digital streaming module for another $10K. Did Krell high-end audio components ever look this good? Dan ...

Pass Laboratories introduced its new 3-chassis XP-30 Preamp, the flagship to its XP line or preamplifiers. The triple-chassis structure allows the XP-30 to function as a modular preamplifier ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

We have no intention of wading into the vacuum tube versus silicon debates audiophiles seem to thrive on. But we know a quality build when we see it, and this gorgeous tube preamp certainly looks like ...

The Ayre KX-R Twenty costs as much as a car, but its designer claims the Pono Player will sound almost as good as the preamp! Steve Guttenberg Former contributor Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...