If you need a more powerful amplifier for your speakers, building a hifi system can get expensive quick. Before you spend a lot of money on a HiFi mono amplifier, check out the Emotiva XPA-HC1 power amp. Is the XPA-HC1 mono block the best cheap power amp you can get?

Is the Rotel 1592MKII integrated amplifier the answer for getting away for the need for separate components?

Is this the Model 40N the all in one amplifier that can finally dethrone our longtime favorite amp, the Naim Uniti Atom?

If you are looking for a streaming music player to go with your Google Home or Alexa products as a way to simplify streaming music on Spotify, Apple Music, or Tidal, then the Cyrus One Cast could be an excellent music player for your home.

XTZ Sound may be more well known for their loudspeakers, but their newest product, the EDGE A2-300 Class D stereo amplifier is not one to be overlooked. Find out what I think about this might mite of an amp in my latest review.

Denon’s new PMA-150H integrated amplifier is a lifestyle hi-fi product aimed at the digital or streaming music enthusiast. Designed for simplicity, I put the small amplifier through its paces to see if its all style over substance, or if the PMA-150H is a special kind of audiophile product.

Audio equipment, be it an amplifier, preamplifier, source, loudspeaker or even cable, isn’t made of magic. There is no real magic anywhere in the hi-fi and audiophile hobby, and yet if you talk to some enthusiasts you’d swear certain products were, in fact, magic. So who’s right?

Heaven 11 Audio’s Billie Integrated amplifier is a hybrid design that mates a tube preamp section to a pair of Class D ICE Power amplifiers from Bang & Olufsen. A minimalist piece of hi-fi kit, the Billie is a unique product aimed at audiophiles wanting something a little different.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday is right around the corner. I break down which AV products I’d look at this Holiday shopping season as well as provide links to hopefully save you money.

Crown Audio’s XLS DriveCore 2 stereo amplifier may be a professional style amp and not one seen in a great many hi-fi and audiophile systems, but rest assured its performance is more high-end than a lot of amplifiers on the market today, including some costing 10 times as much.