We earn commissions from purchases you make using links in our articles. Learn more. For many car owners, the stock stereo just won't cut it and thankfully there are plenty of cost-efficient ways to ...

This project was a sort of challenge: designing an audio amplifier capable of delivering a decent output power with a minimum parts count, without sacrificing quality. The Power Amplifier section ...

National Semiconductor has announced a pair of 200-V mono audio power amplifier input stages claimed to reduce design time and enable amplifier designs with a THD+N as low as 0.00035%. The highly ...

I'm planning to gut and redo the stereo system in my car with a goal of improved sound quality and am really stuck understanding some of the suggestions of car audio shops in my area. Basically ...

The efficiency and size advantages of Class D audio amplification in battery- powered devices are well known. These advantages are now extended to amplifiers up to 500W, made possible by solidstate ...

Blaze Audio is adding to the PowerZone Connect series family. Four brand new additions of multizone installation amplifiers—the 1002, 1502, 2004, and 3004 are now available. “With PowerZone Control, ...

Combining a patented BASH topology from Indigo Manufacturing and bipolar CMOS-DMOS process technology, the STA5150 audio power amplifier delivers 200W of output power into a 4W load with less than 10% ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

If you know anything about a transistor, it’s probably that it’s a three terminal device whose output pin forms part of a potential divider whose state is dependent on what is presented to its input ...

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We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Brent Butterworth Brent Butterworth is a writer dedicated to audio gear. He ...

Here's a quickie for y'all. I recently bought a second amp, from our own SB Mod Richard "Ice" Berg, to run the mids in my truck. I have a nice, big cable with an inline fuse already running from my ...