Bryston Ltd. is a Canadian company which has been designing and manufacturing state of the art specialty electronics to both the professional and consumer audio marketplaces for over a quarter century.
Founded in 1979, Boston Acoustics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets high-performance audio systems for home audio/video systems, after-market and OEM automotive systems, and custom-installations.
Today's world of consumer electronics offers a vast array of exciting and innovative products; each one designed to truly delight and entertain you as you drive to work, go about your daily business...
As part of a limited series releases, Zildjian recently began offering this K Custom Session Crash, which was designed per Steve Gadd's sound preferences. He personally signed a number of them at the factory. The 18" A. Zildjian & CIE Vintage Crash is also one of the limited edition releases, and is reviewed in the Percussion Reviews pages.
The term "separates" was once reserved for the upper crust of the home theater world. Only those with the most discerning ears (and fattest wallets) considered purchasing a separate preamp/processor and multi-channel power amplifier. That time has long gone, thanks in part to the rise of Internet-direct firms such as Emotiva. They manufacture monoblocks (single-channel amplifiers) and multi-channel amplifiers, up to the XPA-5 which has five channels. The current review explores their three-channel amplifier, called the XPA-3.
More than three decades ago a group of die-hard audio enthusiasts got together and formed a company based on making the world safe for performance audio systems.
Arcam first began building sound reproduction equipment in 1972, whilst its founders where still science and engineering students at Cambridge University.