It used to be a must-have on any hi-fi, a pair of moving coil meters or LED bar graphs, the VU meter. Your 1980s boombox would have had them, for example. VU, for “Volume Units”, is a m… ...

Meters Music announced its new flagship headphones back in January, with shipping due a few months later. It’s now December, and this is the first time we’ve seen the new OV-1-B Connect cans ...

It used to be a must-have on any hi-fi, a pair of moving coil meters or LED bar graphs, the VU meter. Your 1980s boombox would have had them, for example. VU, for “Volume Units”, is a measure ...

Advance Paris brings its range of affordable hifi components to the U.S. market, which feature blue VU meters and tube amplification. Back in 1993, I boarded a flight to Paris for the first time to ...

Hi-Fi Taking a stroll down Innovation Road: the 10 best hi-fi and home cinema products we saw at Yamaha's museum. ... Yamaha unveils a trio of analogue-only stereo amps with VU meters. News. By Becky ...

However, in 2025, the brand is back in the Hi-Fi business, ... All three models have a clean, minimalist design, and the M-80 also gets some rather attractive illuminated VU meters on the front.

Cambridge Audio is bringing some retro cool to its CXN100 network streamer with a software update that turns its screen into an old-school VU needle meter.

VU is an abbreviation for volume unit. Thus, a VU meter is a device for measuring the level of sound intensity with audio equipment, such as amplifiers and tape recorders.. Although the measurements ...

Legendary audio brand Onkyo has mounted its rebrand and announced its new Icon Series hi-fi components at CES 2025 today. ...

NAD is celebrating its 50th anniversary by releasing a vintage-inspired stereo amplifier, of which 1972 units each costing $1972 (AU$3299) will be available in a nod to the company’s founding year.

There are other VU meters like this out there — the Fosi Audio LC30 is also on sale for Prime Day and looks a little cooler, but various reviews say the meters aren’t nearly sensitive enough.

A VU meter registers zero level on its scale when the voltage = 0.775 at 1 milliwatt & 600 ohms impedance. This is usually modified so that 0 (zero) corresponds to 1.23 volts or + 4 dbm. The ballistic ...