HiFiCompass

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In 2026, the HiFiCompass.com web resource celebrates its 9th anniversary. Since its founding, we have strived to maintain the informational integrity of our content, avoiding excessive advertising and supporting the project exclusively with our own funds and, to some extent, through donations. These donations have been used to pay for programming and technical support services, web hosting, domain name rental, as well as the purchase of drivers for testing. We will modestly refrain from mentioning the amount of time and effort spent on conducting measurements, post-processing them, and publishing the results.

Unfortunately, continuing the website’s existence and further development under this model is no longer feasible. Therefore, in order to secure funds for maintaining the site, acquiring new drivers for testing, and increasing personal motivation, we are forced to partially restrict access to certain functions and information on the website.

Everyone who values the results of our work and wishes to enjoy unrestricted functionality and full access to all information on the website will need to obtain a Premium account.

Due to the introduction of a new accounting system, all user accounts registered before March 4, 2026, will be deleted. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Registration and administration of all new accounts will be carried out manually.

To review the terms and procedure for registering a Premium account, please follow the link.

There are grateful people here who supported my website before, some of them even more than once (their names and the number of their donations can be seen on this page.

Thank you very much — you helped me a great deal during a difficult time!

I would also like to thank you in return. I will register all of you and provide a free one-year Premium account access. To do this, please send the registration information (your name, username, email) to the hificompass@gmail.com

This applies only to those who supported the website prior to March 4, 2026.

 

Your little gratitude = a huge motivation for us and an invaluable contribution to the website's future! 

Poll

Your favorite power amp type

Class-D
44% (891 votes)
Tube SE
13% (255 votes)
BJT based push-pull
12% (247 votes)
FET based push-pull
11% (226 votes)
Tube push-pull
8% (162 votes)
Hybrid (tube+solid state)
6% (126 votes)
FET based SE
6% (125 votes)
Total votes: 2032

 

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