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Buyers Guide

The Best Amplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 3, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Amplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Amplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Components

Pass Labs XA-200.8 Power Amplifiers | REVIEW

December 5, 2021 Dave McNair 2

“I’m using some big ass mono amps, the Pass Labs XA-200.8. Ya know, the Class A ones.” Whenever I say that, in answer to a question from another audiophile, I get an interesting range of […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Amplifiers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 28, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Amplifiers | Buyers Guide 2022

Welcome to the Best Amplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Components

Parasound Halo JC 5 Power Amplifier | REVIEW

April 30, 2021 Graig Neville 3

Though I received the Parasound Halo JC 5 Stereo Power Amplifier, designed by John Curl, along with the Parasound P 6 2.1 Channel Halo Preamplifier and DAC, I felt that each product was different enough […]

Announcements

NAD C 298 Power Amplifier with Purifi Eigentakt™

September 9, 2020 Editorial Staff 2

PICKERING, ONTARIO, CANADA – Today NAD Electronics introduced a real game changer. A massively powerful and predictably fantastic sounding stereo amplifier that uses Purifi Eigentakt amplification. A new day has dawned, and NAD rises early […]

Components

Review: Pass Labs X600.8 mono block Power Amplifier

April 7, 2018 John Stancavage 10

Do you want the hernia or the double hernia? The voice on the phone asking that question was Bryan Stanton, a communications specialist who works with Pass Labs. A few weeks prior, we had begun […]

Announcements

Cambridge Audio release flagship Edge series

March 28, 2018 Rafe Arnott 2

Stalwart British high-fidelity manufacturer Cambridge Audio has launched a new flagship line of components under the Edge series moniker to help celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary. I’ve only had a few brief flings in a […]

Canada

The List: Five of the Best Power Amps in The World

March 11, 2018 Rafe Arnott 13

Welcome to something new we’re going to try here on PTA thanks to our friend Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I’m going to be curating a new list every month featuring different categories […]

Announcements

McIntosh drops 1,200 watt amp: MC1.25KW Quad Balanced Power Amplifier

November 9, 2017 Rafe Arnott Comments Off on McIntosh drops 1,200 watt amp: MC1.25KW Quad Balanced Power Amplifier

Power. Who wants it, who needs it, and who has got it? Seems McIntosh Labs is looking to give those power-starved audiophile souls out in the land of bass, and treble a little taste north […]

Audio Gear Reviews

Review: Audio Research VT80 Foundation Series power amplifier

September 2, 2017 John Richardson 9

By John Richardson I miss Sam Tellig. I always read Sam’s column in Stereophile as soon as the newest edition hit my mailbox; I found him to be an entertaining and informative writer. It was great to read […]

Canada

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: McIntosh, Transparent Cable and Sonus Faber

July 5, 2017 Rafe Arnott 1

There’s no denying that Sonus Faber, and McIntosh Labs make beautiful-looking gear. The craftsmanship, attention to detail, and handmade nature of their speakers, and amplification components scream bespoke. But the reason these two marques of […]

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