In this year again, vintage ruled and got a lot of attention at the show. While Silbatone attended the show for the third time in a row, Keith Aschenbrenner from Auditorium 23 also brought a vintage ...

I've always found cartridge alignment a nerve-wracking chore, being frustrated by the innate inaccuracy of most tools involved, and of the tedious tiring eyeballing process itself, of course. All of ...

It is not often you get to review an audio component that has its very own page on the wikipedia. Or one that has been around for almost 35 years. One that sold over three million units in that time.

The output resistance of an emitter follower, assuming a sufficiently low impedance driving the base terminal, is approximately given by the formula R = 30 / Ic, with Ic the collector current in milli ...

A new affordable amplifier from New Acoustic Dimension can hardly be considered big news, as NAD is THE specialist of value-for-money hifi with audiophile pretentions, and as NAD majors in amplifiers.

This year is Rotel's 40th anniversary. Over the years, they have turned from a me-too company to a respected brand name, one which does things its own way. But unusually enough, they seem to be held ...

Some products are more inspiring than others and for non-audiophiles it can be a little bit difficult to understand our enthusiasm for equipment that only looks just like a box to anybody else. DACs ...

Nella prima parte di questa serie di articoli abbiamo dato uno sguardo al rumore generato all'usicita di un certo numero di regolatori di tensione economici e semplici da realizzare: la serie a chip ...

DIY projects for building audio and HiFi cables. Interconnects, digital, power and mains cables plus general theoric articles. All the projects are FREE and NOT FOR SALE.

Back in January 2010, I reviewed the P&S OPC271 OPTO-POTENTIOMETER, a volume control that used Light Dependent Resistors (LDR's) to control the volume level. To recap briefly, this allows us to do ...

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 ...

Frequency response: Less than +/- 0.5 dB deviation 20Hz-20kHz Phase response: Less than 5 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, or less than 2 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, depending which Consonance/Opera ...