Michael Yee Audio

At Michael Yee Audio, we design and manufacture High End audio components. We have two goals at MYA: to offer the highest of fidelity for a reasonable cost and to help individuals enjoy the wonders of music. "why we listen"

We offer our components at "entry level" prices but with the performance of the most expensive amplifiers. If our designs do not perform to the highest audiophile standards, we do not offer them to the market. Our truly unique technology allows us to have a higher performance/price ratio.

We currently manufacture:

The PA-3, a 25W Class A Power Amplifier

and the:

The PFE-2, a phono preamplifier

In additon to the above Michael Yee Audio products, we manufacture several products under the Musical Surroundings label.

These include:

The Phonomena, a phono preamplifier with optional separate Phonomena Battery Supply (BPS)

The SuperNova, a phono preamplifier with separate SuperNova Power Supply

The Nova Phonomena, a phono preamplifier

The Michael Yee Audio Philosophy

Tonal Imaging...
Our concept of "Tonal Imaging" is key to our success. It enables us to objectively listen to systems and components (as opposed to vague subjective listening). When we evaluate component or systems, we primarily listen for characteristics of the various images. These characteristics are: location, size, focus, realism and stability. In this way, we listen to "tonality" indirectly because if these characteristics of the images are good, the tonality falls in place.

One of the most important results of the "Tonal Imaging" concept is the development of harmonic integrity techniques. These techniques for circuit design and evaluation have lead to amazing real world results.

Our History...
It all started in 1977 when Bob Shogi (a friend at Engineering school) bet that I couldn't figure out why "tubes" sounded "tubey" and "transistors" sounded "transistory". Well, I took the bet quite seriously. It was a couple of hard years before I had a break, I had designed two solid state amplifiers that had identical "book specs," but sounded completely different. But I knew the difference and knew the difference was below the noise floor!

In the early eighties I designed special equipment for the "underground market". This led to my designing for various hi-fi companies and in 1990 the PFE-1 was released as a Michael Yee Audio product. MYA products have always been popular among "people in the know" because of great sound and extreme value.

The Sound...
The sound from our amplifiers has the detail and bass of the best transistor amplifiers along with much of the seductive character of tube amplifiers, while the body and texture you hear are in an unprecedented class.