Firstly, I’d like to stress that the intended use of this circuit is only one of many possible applications. Apart from the obvious usage as a headphone amplifier, the circuit can be used for a range ...

Big-name tube amplifiers often don’t come cheap. Being the preserve of dedicated audiophiles, those delicate hi-fis put their glass components on show to tell you just how pricy they really ought to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. There are plenty of people who still like to use wired ...

Bryston’s BHA-1 has proved itself for over a decade and is one battle tested headphone amplifier I wish I had discovered sooner. For the better part of the past three years, almost every headphone ...

The Fiio K7 will dramatically improve the quality of your desktop listening. Skip your computer’s audio jack and plug the K7 into its USB port for a true revelation. The Fiio K7 desktop DAC and ...

A headphone amplifier than can drive both planar magnetic and electrostatic headphones? The iFi iCAN Phantom has arrived for $3,749. Is it possible for one headphone amplifier to drive everything?

If you enjoy listening to music on the move using a great pair of wired headphones, you will know how frustrating it is that most smartphones no longer have a 3.5mm headphone socket so you are forced ...

that I’d recently acquired for listening to computer-sourced audio over headphones in a quality-upgraded fashion beyond just the DAC (and amp-fed headphone jack) built into my Mac. That same ...

There are plenty of portable headphone amps out there that plug directly into instruments like electric guitars and basses, but Boss just kicked things up a notch. The company has announced the Katana ...

If you’ve decided to invest in an audiophile-grade set of wired headphones or IEMs, you should definitely consider acquiring a headphone amp to power them. Perhaps something like Rotel’s slick new ...

I bought myself an iBasso D-Zero MK2 portable headphone amp, to drive my Westone W50s which I bought to replace my lost Westone 4Rs (which I ultimately found). I bought the amp simply because it makes ...