If you’ve wondered what a preamplifier is, what it exactly does, and whether your audio setup is missing one, we’ve got the ...

Guitars Harley Benton unveils Custom Line jumbo 12-string with a $350 price tag that’s for the Byrds Microphones "In terms of audio and signal performance, it delivers everything I would want as a ...

R&M Tone Technology has developed a new line of patented active guitar cables to help players inject some life into their guitar sound. Each of the four PowerWire cables comes with a built-in preamp ...

Depending on its design an electric guitar may have anything from one to six pickup elements. Classic (acoustic) guitars could also benefit from one or more retro-fitted pickups. Each pickup has a ...

This week, with a little help from a Roomba, [Dino] built a guitar pickup and preamp that sounds marvelous. A pickup takes vibrations from the guitar and turns them into an electrical signal which can ...

[Bryan] sent in this old but excellent guitar cable hack. [J. Donald Tillman] managed to fit a fet based pre-amp inside the 1/4″ connector of a guitar cable. It’s phantom powered – so it’ll leach ...

Mathias Poets and Alex Poets have reimagined the analogue guitar pre-amp and have created the aptly named poets One. Which is taken to Kickstarter this week to raise the €20,000 the team require to go ...

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Understand the basic audio components of a Hi-Fi stereo system so you know what to look for when shopping for audiophile equipment. Amplifier. Amp. Preamp. Integrated amp. Phono stage. Tube amplifier.

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