Product Preview: Audionet Humboldt Integrated Amplifier

February 7th and 8th found me visiting the showrooms of GTT Audio & Video, in Long Valley, NJ, for a private audition of the new Audionet Humboldt integrated amplifier. Though I had attended the official Humboldt launch in Munich last May, this would prove to be my first serious audition. Like the other Scientist Series Audionet products, Humboldt takes its name from a prominent man of science, in this case eighteenth and nineteenth century Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Conceived on the same platform as the …