Starke Sound A8.350 8-Channel Power Amplifier Preview

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Starke Sound is a relatively young company based in California (founded in 2009) focusing on producing audio equipment for multi-channel movie and music reproduction at home.

The company’s products include speakers, amplifiers, and subwoofers.

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The A8.350 is the company’s new 8-channel amplifier. It is a hefty amplifier capable of generating 200-Watts per channel into 8-ohm loads or 350-Watts per channel into 4-ohm loads. The amplifier utilizes a fully balanced circuit design with special Class A + AB smooth switching technology. It is designed to be in Class A topology up to 30-Watts per channel. My upcoming review will discuss in detail the performance of this $5200 amplifier.

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Starke Sound A8.350 amplifier – top-front view

Starke Sound A8.350 amplifier – rear view

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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.