The three circuits were based on the vacuum tube ECC83 designed to produce phono preamplifiers in compliance with the RIAA standards. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – the trade group ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. McIntosh is the kind of high-end audio brand that most ...

Audio Research introduced the PH8 vacuum tube phono preamplifier that benefits from a number of circuit and parts improvements derived from their REF Phono 2. Rather than using the four 6922s of it ...

Just last month, the new DA2 Digital Audio Module from New York's McIntosh Labs made its debut in the C53 preamplifier. Now the company has partnered digital with analog for the C2700 two-channel tube ...

There’s magic in an LP’s grooves, and the ModWright PH 9.0 phono preamp lets you hear more of it. I’ve admired ModWright Instruments components from afar for years at audio shows. The company’s design ...

The budget audiophile brand is getting more serious about traditional stereo hi-fi.

Pro-Ject is best known for its wide range of turntables, but the Austrian audio company makes numerous other hi-fi components that can work with and elevate its turntables, too. Chief among them, ...

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 ...

Scott Reynolds founded Tavish Design in 2011 to follow his bliss. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, works for IBM, and authored over 30 patents. He may be a whiz with digital tech, but when ...

The objective of building this circuit is to create a preamplifier based on the Hampton standard with the utilization of vacuum tubes for use with moving coil cartridge. ECC88 – a VHF double triode ...