Fashions come and go and that's as true of hi-fi as any other part of our lives. When recorded sound was first invented, the sound was amplified by horns until somebody invented the moving coil type ...

The audio press pays a great deal of attention to various components and configurations in home audio equipment. There is a large and diverse selection of articles available in print and on-line about ...

The Trasparent Cables are well known to the audiophile community for their strange appearance: almost every cable by this Company is equipped with a mysterious black box, called the Transparent ...

As with most budget conscious CD-Players, one of the most inadequate parts that make up the whole is the Chassis/Case. Marantz's Ken Ishiwata has realised that himself and therefor the MAIN ...

Cost: AU24 "e" loudspeaker cables: 1083 UKP for a 2 metre pair. (YMMV) Cost: au24e interconnects: 640 UKP for a 1 metre pair. (YMMV) Cost: Conductor interconnects: 190 UKP for a 1 metre pair. (YMMV) I ...

The above schematic comprises almost anything you can put around the ubiquitous LM317 positive 3-pin regulator (LM337 for negative voltages, 117 and 137 military versions). The basic circuit dispenses ...

In the first installment of this series we had a look at the noise generated at the output of a number of easy to build and cheap voltage regulators: single-chip series and shunt regs (LM317/337 and ...

You may know that setting up the right stylus pressure is crucial not only for the best sonic results from your analogue turntable but also to avoid damaging the LPs while playing. A correct tracking ...

Recently there has been quite a discussion on the TNT forum regarding bass performance. One correspondent asked whether a piano got down as low as 50 Hz and it made me realise that most of us don't ...

You probably love your hi-fi. And you probably love all the other modern gadgets that make life a bit more interesting. But there is no such thing as a free lunch, and apart from having to pay up ...

I know quite a few people with decent systems, and no brand is present in these systems like Arcam. In total I 'know' 3 Arcam CD players and 1 integrated amp. Just to check I walked into my local ...

Hypex is an innovative Dutch company, located in the city of Groningen. They produce a whole range of products, but are most famous for their class D amplifier modules. Hypex have a great reputation ...