EMPIRICAL AUDIO®

Empirical Audio® was formed in 1994. During our first five years we developed cable technologies, applied for Patent protection and developed our web-site. We launched our web-site in 2000. We sell primarily direct to end users over the Internet... Our cable products were reviewed by Stereophile in 2005 and were listed in recommended components for several years... We started modding other manufacturers component products in 2002, primarily DACs, but also preamps, amps and CD players/Transports. Some of our amplifier and DAC mods such as the JC-1 monoblocks, HCA35000, Benchmark DAC-1, DEQX, Northstar 192 and Electrocompaniet ECD-1 are legendary now. Reverse-engineering all of these products was a learning experience for us, providing us with a lot of "dos" and "don'ts",as well as giving us the opportunity to experiment with a lot of different capacitors to determine which sounds best. We also determined what design tricks are required to make certain devices like D/A chips and op-..

Primary location: United States