Parasound Halo A23+ Stereo Power Amplifier Preview

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In the hi-fi world, Parasound needs no introduction.

The company is known to offer no-nonsense audio products with prices that do not go into stratospheric levels. Offering products in the sweet spot of quality-to-cost ratio is always the company’s mission. The success that Parasound has achieved since it was founded in 1981 is driven by the customers’ appreciation for the achievement of this very mission.

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Parasound is especially recognized for its amplifiers, which is of no surprise considering the legendary amplifier designer, John Curl, has been involved in the company’s amplifier product development since its early years. The Halo A23+ stereo power amplifier that I am currently reviewing is Parasound’s recent iteration of its popular Halo A23 amplifier. The A23+ has improved components and can deliver more power than its predecessor. With 160 W per channel into 8-ohm and 240 W per channel into 4-ohm loads, this is a beefier amplifier than its slim look suggests. It can also be bridged to generate mono amplification of 500 W into an 8-ohm load. My review report will elaborate on what you can expect from this reasonably-priced amplifier (MSRP $1595).

See the complete review for the Parasound Halo A23+ Stereo Power Amplifier.

Yongki Go, Ph.D.

Yongki considers himself as an aerospace engineer by day and an audio/home-theater enthusiast by night/weekend. He earned his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from MIT in 1999 and has pursued a career in academia before changing path to join the aerospace industry. He has been writing for SECRETS since its early years, but was on hiatus during the few years when he was living overseas. He has been actively writing for SECRETS again not long after his return to the US in 2012. Although his field of expertise is in aerospace control systems as exemplified by more than 80 technical articles in various aerospace-related journals and conferences, his passion has always been in hi-fi audio reproduction. It is this continued passion for audio that has kept him as a long-time member of the SECRETS team.