Phono Preamps are very practical for Vinyl Record enthusiasts, but is the $4900 Grimm Audio PW1 worth it? The PW1 has the initials of chief designer Peter van Willenswaard, co-founder of Grimm Audio.

There’s magic in an LP’s grooves, and the ModWright PH 9.0 phono preamp lets you hear more of it. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a ...

NAMM 2026: The plugin promises to offer music-makers the same "musical tube warmth and character" heard on recordings by Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, and Neil Young ...

Cranborne Audio has introduced its new Camden EC1, a desktop preamp with analog saturation and a headphone amplifier with a discrete line mixer built-in, all fit in a half-rack chassis, making it ...

Cary Audio Design is now shipping the Cinema 12, a full-featured preamplifier processor, sharing many of the same features as its predecessor (Cinema 11a) while increasing the performance and ...

The circuit was designed to produce a preamplifier with symmetrical audio input while the output operates in Class A type. The circuit was designed to produce a preamplifier with symmetrical audio ...

Audio Research is continuing its 50th anniversary celebrations with the launch of the LS28SE preamplifier, which brings performance improvements over the 2016-launched LS28 it replaces. The new, ...

Harrison Audio was formed in 1975 after Dave Harrison’s innovative 1974 design of the world’s first “in line” console, the MCI JH-400. By combining the formerly separate recording and monitoring ...

If we had to pick one highlight of the multi-Award-winning Clearaudio Concept turntable, it'd be its excellent all-round sonic performance, natch. But subsequent praise would soon regard the ease of ...

In high-end audio equipment, careful selection of resistors is one of the best ways to avoid or minimize noise and distortion in the signal path. This paper describes the noise generation in resistors ...