It's an amp and a speaker system in a single device, and it's designed to produce a reasonably wide sound via its 270-degree sound system. It's not going to be as wide as a standard set of the best ...

This uses modern digital amplifiers to boost signal, rounding off the process with a traditional analogue amplifier for output. The result is less noise and distortion, doing away with speaker hiss ..

We round up the coolest new speakers, turntables and hi-fi components that have been announced in the past several weeks.

If you're looking to dig into the world of hi-fi systems that consist of a separate stereo receiver or integrated amplifier that powers a set of passive speakers — whether your passion is ...

Priced at $349, HomePod is bristling with acoustic armaments powered by its A8 chip, including seven beam-forming tweeters (unusually, placed at the bottom of the speaker and each with their own ...

This stereo integrated amplifier has Wi-Fi support and uses Linkplay to build a multiroom audio system, but you have to connect passive speakers to the amp. What if you don’t want to lock ...

But creating great-sounding speakers is a much harder engineering challenge than creating software-and-circuitry-based amps and network players. Partnering with an existing manufacturer like Audio ...

The Triangle Borea BR03 set is our favorite pair of passive bookshelf speakers to mate with a receiver or amp, while the excellent Edifier S1000MKII pair adds built-in amplifiers and Bluetooth.

has a long history of delivering high-end audio components that look and sound like nothing else. Its revolutionary electrostatic loudspeakers, the 1957-released Quad ESL, are the most prominent ...

Celestion Vintage 30: The Celestion V30 sound has been captured on thousands of recordings from a diverse range of notable players, including Slash, Steve Stevens, and Peter Frampton. Ideal match ...

but the company’s first product was in fact an audio amplifier that you could connect to stand-alone speakers. “With these new technologies, you’re in the sound. This used to be reserved to ...

The Envy Meisterwerk is a high-performance headphone amplifier that uses iconic Western Electric 300B tubes for a warm analog ...