How Loud is the Distortion from Your Power Amplifier?
In this video, John Siau extracts the data from the published test results of 7 top-rated audiophile power amplifiers. Hidden within the THD+N vs....
In this video, John Siau extracts the data from the published test results of 7 top-rated audiophile power amplifiers. Hidden within the THD+N vs....
Feed-Forward Error Correction Don't look back, the future is here! Benchmark's AHB2 power amplifier has a unique feedforward error correction syst...
The FFT … an Audio Microscope. An FFT analyzer is like an audio microscope. It allows us to easily measure the frequency and amplitude of tones th...
Don't Become a Victim of "Wire Fraud"! Beware of claims that sound too good to be true. Beware of pseudo-scientific language. Beware of any compan...
Are You Driving Your Audio System in the "Wrong Gear"? A race car produces peak power when the transmission is in the proper gear. Likewise, an au...
Oversampled sigma-delta D/A converters and fixed-point sample rate converters can add significant amounts of distortion when playing CD-format rec...
An Impossible Engineering Task? Our goal was to produce an analog volume control with the highest achievable transparency. We wanted to be able to...
The AHB2 - A Radical Approach to Audio Power Amplification Benchmark's AHB2 Power Amplifier is radically different from every other audio power am...
An Introduction to Benchmark John Siau, VP and Director of Engineering, gives us an overview of his company, their design philosophy, and the pion...