Peachtree Audio

Peachtree Audio U.S. manufacturer of high-performance integrated amplifiers and power amplifiers for enjoying music at home.

Peachtree Audio was founded in 2007 by a small group of industry professionals that embraced the personal computer (PC) as a source of high-performance audio and believed "streaming" was the future of high-quality digital music access and enjoyment. Unwilling to compromise sound quality for the convenience of using a PC as a source, Peachtree conceived of a new type of product; an integrated ampli

fier with a built-in USB port and digital-to-analog converter to successfully marry a stereo system yo a computer. The ground-breaking decco and the original nova that followed were a huge success and established Peachtree Audio as a forward thinking brand that designed high performance solution to bridge the gap between high-fidelity and high-tech. Peachtree Audio views its customers as its most important asset and provides a level of personalized support that is rare today. The company is constantly evaluating new ideas and technologies to improve the music listening experience. Peachtree Audio remains true to its original vision; merging proven audio technologies with new ideas to push the boundaries of music listening enjoyment to the highest levels!

Two of our most popular posts over the past year had very little to do with our products, but they are clearly important...
09/01/2026

Two of our most popular posts over the past year had very little to do with our products, but they are clearly important topics to our customers and fans. So, we put together a couple of pieces to help people navigate some of the most effective ways to get the best sound quality from any system: choosing the right speakers and using EQ to dial them into the room.

Here’s where we share our advice on choosing speakers:

https://www.peachtreeaudio.com/pages/a-practical-guide-to-choosing-stereo-speakers

And here’s where we share our advice on using WiiM’s RoomFit to EQ a system for your room:

https://www.peachtreeaudio.com/pages/wiim-roomfit-setup-suggestions

These recommendations apply to anyone, whether you own our products or someone else’s. We hope you find them helpful, or at least that they give you something to think about.

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Fall is coming. Time to turn your attention back to your sound system.As the days get shorter and more time gets spent i...
08/31/2026

Fall is coming. Time to turn your attention back to your sound system.

As the days get shorter and more time gets spent indoors, this is a great time to revisit your system and see if you’re really getting everything out of it.

Before you start shopping for new gear, here are the top 3 ways we would try to improve the sound quality of your system, and #1 is completely free.

1. Move your speakers and/or listening position.

This is the #1 compromise we see people making with their systems. Where you place your speakers, and where you sit in the room, can affect the overall sound quality more than almost anything else you do.

Read that sentence again.

Even moving a speaker or your listening position a few inches can significantly change bass response, imaging, tonal balance, clarity, and soundstage.

Not sure where to start?

Try AI. Enter your room dimensions, speaker positions, and listening position, then ask how you might improve both to achieve a more neutral, balanced response. It can help identify likely room-mode issues and suggest practical placement changes to experiment with before you spend another dime or go through the trouble of moving your speakers.

2. Use EQ. If it’s already built into your streamer, you’ve already paid for it, now put it to work for you. If you can’t improve the sound enough through placement alone, EQ may be the next most effective step you can take.

We see far too many excellent speakers pushed into corners, close to side walls, or placed wherever the room allows rather than where they perform best. Sometimes that is simply the reality of a shared living space.

EQ can’t fix everything, but it can make major improvements and help you get the best possible sound from acoustically challenging placements.

And even with excellent speaker placement, your room dimensions will still create significant peaks and dips in the frequency response at the listening position.

Don’t believe us? Run a frequency sweep and listen. You’ll hear some bass frequencies boom while others seem to disappear. That is your room affecting the sound at your listening position.

If you’re spending hours researching DACs, cables, power supplies, and other accessories, consider putting some of that effort into speaker placement and EQ first. The improvement will be much greater.

3. Make sure your amplifier is really up to the job.

Many speakers benefit from having more amplifier power, and especially more current capability, available than their owners realize.

If your speakers are below roughly 88 dB sensitivity, dip toward 4 ohms or below, or present challenging phase angles, the demands they place on an amplifier can be considerable.

And amplifier power doesn’t scale the way many people assume. To gain just 3 dB of additional clean output, you need roughly twice the power. So moving from a 60-watt amplifier to an 80- or 100-watt amplifier may not give demanding speakers much more headroom.

Music is inherently dynamic. Your amplifier needs to reproduce those peaks without struggling. When it can’t, the sound can become compressed, strained, brighter, or harder as volume levels increase. At that point, you may be hearing the limitations of the amplifier rather than the limitations of your speakers.

There’s a reason many speaker designers use powerful, stable amplifiers when evaluating their designs: they don’t want the amplifier to become the limiting factor.

So, before replacing your speakers or chasing smaller changes elsewhere in the system this fall, start with the fundamentals:

Placement.
EQ.
Amplification.

Get those three things right, and you may discover there’s a much better system already sitting in your room, and it may only cost you an afternoon of your time.

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We are happy to announce that we are opening up our repair services to include vintage audio products.Our head technicia...
08/28/2026

We are happy to announce that we are opening up our repair services to include vintage audio products.

Our head technician is a collector, enthusiast, and highly skilled repair technician. He also designs some of our products, so he is extremely well qualified to bring these classic components back to life.

If you have a vintage amplifier, receiver, preamplifier, or other audio component in need of some attention, please reach out. And please help us spread the word!

More details here:

https://www.peachtreeaudio.com/pages/vintage-gear-repair

We have a Gloss Mocha Carina GaN in our “pre-owned” section that was traded in toward a Carina Stack by a long-term cust...
08/27/2026

We have a Gloss Mocha Carina GaN in our “pre-owned” section that was traded in toward a Carina Stack by a long-term customer who took exceptionally good care of it. It is basically like new.

We are putting a two-year parts and labor warranty on it, double the regular warranty on previously owned products.

If you are in the market for an integrated amplifier for right around $2K US, this one is a gem.

https://www.peachtreeaudio.com/collections/pre-owned/products/carina-gan-pre-owned

Trickle down, not watered down.The Carina 150X.The same balanced DAC, preamp, volume control, headphone amplifier, and p...
08/26/2026

Trickle down, not watered down.

The Carina 150X.

The same balanced DAC, preamp, volume control, headphone amplifier, and phono preamp found in our flagship standalone Carina pre|DAC, combined with the latest X amplifier technology, all wrapped in a timeless real wood and metal design.

“Entry level” doesn’t always have to mean major concessions.

Sometimes, it just means a damn good deal.

https://www.peachtreeaudio.com/collections/integrated-solutions/products/carina-150x

Thanks, Tom. We're glad you're enjoying the Stereo X!
08/25/2026

Thanks, Tom. We're glad you're enjoying the Stereo X!

Diving a Little Deeper Into WiiM’s RoomFitQuick background: I recently added a pair of KEF Q7 Metas to my living room sy...
08/18/2026

Diving a Little Deeper Into WiiM’s RoomFit

Quick background: I recently added a pair of KEF Q7 Metas to my living room system, which is a fairly challenging acoustic space. It’s a relatively small ~13 × 13 × 8 ft room with a bay window, a large open doorway on the right, a standard doorway on the left, and another opening on the rear wall into an adjacent room.

The good news is that WiiM’s RoomFit routine, using the iPhone microphone, was incredibly easy to use and significantly improved the sound. It correctly identified the major problem areas in the room and applied PEQ to address them.

But I thought I could squeeze a little more out of it, so I broke out a UMIK-1 and spent a few hours digging deeper. This is probably more effort than most WiiM users will ever want to put into it, but the results were impressive. I was able to get much closer to the sonic target I had in my head and better address the room’s biggest problem areas.

I’ll spare you the gory details since they would probably only interest a small percentage of users, but here are a few tips I would share with anyone using RoomFit:

Set the lower correction limit near your speakers’ useful low-frequency extension.
When I allowed RoomFit to correct down to 20 Hz, it added boosts approaching +10 dB in the 20 Hz range, essentially trying to compensate for the speakers’ natural low-frequency rolloff and forcing them to produce output they really weren’t designed to deliver. When I raised the lower limit to 30 Hz, those boosts disappeared, and RoomFit was able to use those filters in other areas of the bass response that actually needed attention.

Set the upper correction limit around 300 Hz.
Unless you have significant higher-frequency peaks you specifically want to address, I’d let the speakers be themselves above this range. Their midrange and treble performance are probably a big part of why you bought them in the first place.

There’s another benefit: limiting the correction range allows RoomFit to concentrate its 10 PEQ filters in the bass region, where the room typically creates the biggest problems and where EQ is most likely to help.

Change the correction limits from the default ±10 dB to something like +3/-12 dB.
This limits how aggressively RoomFit can boost dips while giving it more latitude to knock down large peaks. Boosting into a deep room cancellation generally isn’t very effective anyway. Cutting peaks is where EQ really shines.

Set the volume appropriately before calibration.
You want the test signal comfortably above the room’s noise floor without being excessively loud. In my room and system, “40” on the WiiM Ultra worked well. 30 was too soft and 50 was louder than necessary.

Run the calibration routine for all three built-in target curves: Flat, Harman and B&K.
You’ve already gotten this far, so you might as well save all three and compare them over time.

I could have done a complete Room EQ Wizard analysis and manually entered PEQ values into the WiiM app, but I specifically wanted to see what could be accomplished using RoomFit the way a reasonably enthusiastic customer might use it.

So here’s the takeaway:

Use RoomFit. Start with your phone and experiment with some of the settings above.

Every room has acoustic problems. Those beautiful frequency-response curves you see in speaker reviews are generally measured under controlled conditions designed to minimize the room’s influence. They are not what you are hearing when you put those same speakers in your living room.

Don’t believe me? Grab your phone, run RoomFit and look at the mountain range your room creates below 300 Hz. It can be pretty eye-opening.

Want to take it a step further? Buy a UMIK-1 and use it with RoomFit. Plug it into your phone, load the microphone calibration files, and run the three target curves again so you can compare them with the results from the phone’s built-in microphone.

In many untreated rooms, bass variations of ±10 dB or more are not unusual. With thoughtful EQ, getting within ±5 dB can be very achievable. Add some time spent fine-tuning speaker and listening-position placement, and you may be able to get surprisingly close to ±3 dB through much of the important bass region.

And that may deliver the “night and day” improvement you’ve been looking for without changing a single component in your system.

If you already own a WiiM and haven’t checked out RoomFit, you’re missing what is arguably one of its most useful features after streaming your music, of course. And remember, RoomFit EQ can be turned on and off with a single button press, making it incredibly easy to hear exactly what it’s doing.

Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (Sorry, couldn't resist the reference)The Biggest Missed Opportunities to Improve Sound Q...
08/12/2026

Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (Sorry, couldn't resist the reference)

The Biggest Missed Opportunities to Improve Sound Quality

Social media gives us an unprecedented look at how people set up their listening rooms. Over time, one thing has become very clear: many systems are being held back by the same three issues. And addressing them can make a far bigger difference than almost anything else.

1. Your speakers are in a compromised position.

If your speakers are pushed into corners or placed very close to walls or large furniture, try moving them farther into the room. Nearby boundaries reinforce bass, alter tonal balance, and can seriously compromise imaging and soundstage. Even a relatively small change in placement can make a surprisingly large difference.

If you simply cannot move them, use room correction, DSP, or EQ. Any theoretical downside of sensible EQ is minuscule compared with the improvement you can achieve by correcting the large frequency-response peaks and dips created by the room.

2. Your room is too reflective.

Hardwood or tile floors, large windows, bare walls, and open floor plans may look beautiful, but they also reflect a lot of sound. Too much reflected energy can make a system sound bright and fatiguing while reducing clarity and imaging. Rugs, curtains, furniture, bookshelves, wall hangings, absorption, and diffusion can all help. You do not need to turn your living room into an anechoic chamber. You simply need to reduce some of the sound bouncing around it.

3. Your amplifier is too weak for your speakers.

We see this constantly: excellent speakers being driven by amplifiers that simply do not have enough power or current capability to bring out their best. If those speakers could talk, they would be saying, “Help me. I’m starving.” Most speakers will sound okay with a modest amplifier, but that does not mean they are performing anywhere near their potential. Proper amplification can improve dynamics, bass control, clarity, composure, and the ability to reproduce demanding musical passages without strain at any listening level. And no, you are not going to damage your speakers simply because your amplifier is capable of producing more power than the manufacturer’s recommended rating. Adequate clean power and headroom are far preferable to driving an underpowered amplifier into clipping. Give your speakers the power they need, and they will reward you with the sound quality they are truly capable of delivering.

Here’s the good news.

You can dramatically improve your system without chasing the latest audio trend or buying another supposed “magic bullet.” Get the fundamentals right first: speaker placement, listening position, room acoustics, and proper amplification. These factors can move the sound-quality needle much farther than many of the things enthusiasts spend countless hours researching and debating.

Before obsessing over the next DAC, cable, or accessory, spend some time understanding how your speakers interact with your room and whether your amplifier is really giving them what they need. Address the root causes instead of continually treating the symptoms. There are no magic bullets. Just good system setup, room acoustics, and the laws of physics. Improve the fundamentals, and prepare to be amazed at how much better your system can sound.

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