The reference design combines Class-H envelope tracking with a Class-D amplifier to deliver high-output automotive audio while improving efficiency, reducing thermal dissipation, and simplifying ...

GaN HEMTs provide lower gate charge and parasitic capacitance, enabling superior efficiency and rapid switching speeds for audio. The burgeoning adoption of consumer electronics, professional hi-fi ...

Schiit Audio has announced the Lyr 5, a desktop headphone amplifier that combines tube and solid-state gain in a single chassis with Forkbeard oversight. The Lyr 5 is a hybrid design. It uses what ...

Eight years after the arrival of the Sonos Amp, which supported four speakers for high-end streaming audio around your house, the brand's leveled things up with new hardware for bigger homes. The Amp ...

A new book authored by Robert N. Buono delves deeply into Class-D amplifiers, a crucial technology in audio designs. Buono has more than four decades of experience in analog and power electronic ...

Cambridge Audio — the British audio manufacturer best known for its beautiful, high-end and new-age streamers, amplifiers and turntables — has announced a compact power amplifier for traditional hi-fi ...

Cambridge Audio has announced the MXW70 power amplifier. This new half-width (215mm) box is designed to be paired with the similarly half-width MXN10 network streamer (reviewed here) or DACMagic 200 ...

This plug-in makes measurements for Class D amplifiers. The tests will generate a digital audio signal and then measure the analog output of the amplifier. (This section is if you only want to use the ...

Class D amps from $130 to $50,000—pulling more ears into hi-fi without demanding you sell a kidney. Solid tech, serious power, and none of the usual overpriced fluff. Finally, affordable doesn’t sound ...

Orchard Audio’s Starkrimson 25 Mono Premium delivers clean, efficient Class D power with precision and upgrade options for existing owners—no gimmicks, just performance. Still clinging to the myth ...