OK, I admit to cheating a little bit with the title. The Amp in a Can is not really a tube (valve) amp at all, but rather a cheap and cheerful portable guitar amp housed in cardboard tubing that ...

For audio enthusiasts looking to upgrade the sound quality of their smartphone or laptop, a portable DAC/amp can be a fairly simple and affordable solution. The tiny hi-fi component plugs into your ...

If you have a pair of portable or budget headphones and use them on the go, you probably could use a portable amp to go along with them and pump up their sound a bit. This week we’re looking for the ...

Though guitar amp and effects modeling has been around for a while, Positive Grid shook things up in 2019 with the launch of the Spark – an impressively flexible and affordable tone master. The ...

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 ...

Many of us have come to rely on our phones as our primary listening devices when it comes to music, but they don’t exactly provide the best audio quality. Try to drive a high-end pair of headphones ...

The circuit was designed for high performance unit as it serves as a portable amplifier for headphones while being powered with 3 Volts. Amplifier – an electronic device used for intensifying the ...

When it comes to music production and audio engineering, Linux isn’t the most common choice. This isn’t for lack of decent tools or other typical open source usability issues: Ardour as a highly ...

Alot of portable players have 1 bit DAC and a horde of anti-skip etc etc. If I was to hook up a portable player to an external amp to drive some speakers, will the sound be pleasing? I know the built ...

Now that pretty much every major streaming music service — except Spotify — offers lossless audio options at CD-quality or better, you may be wondering how you can hear that extra level of sound ...