A while ago I was in need of a new Phono Pickup Cartridge. Having stayed for a long time with such budget favorites as the Cambridge C-77 and a nice NAD 9100, I was not going to shell out for a Koetsu ...

This is not the happiest way to re-open the magazine after our usual holidays break but I simply can't avoid this. A week ago a true legend of the HiFi arena, James Bongiorno, passed away. It is a sad ...

After the initial general article about the different connection methods between a Transport and a DAC unit, and the first practical one regarding clock substitution and relative benefits and limits, ...

Less than 1 year ago I reviewed the NorthStar Model 192 DAC, a D/A converter which makes use of the well known upsampling technique, bringing the usual 16/44 CD format up to 24/192. Last autumn the ...

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 ...

Free & proudly independent (no-advertising) since 1996 Weekly updated - www.tnt-audio.com Technical publication enrolled in the Italian Press Roll. Subcr. Nr. 5/05 12/02/05 ISSN code: 1825-4853 "Music ...

Miracles do occasionally happen. Consider cylinder records and phonographs. Both disappeared from the market in 1929, by which point the players were yesterday's technology and much of the music ...

NAD products tend to elicit strong opinions from hi-fi enthusiasts. There are those who consider them cheap and cheerful with quirky styling, and those who consider them as simply fantastic value and ...

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 ...

L'ultimo diffusore importato dalla dinamica MondoAudio è stato quel Duevel Bellaluna Diamante che tanto mi ha impressionato, insolito quanto ben suonante. L'oggetto di questa prova è, invece, piccolo ...

You may remember my review of the Spendor-made Quad 10L loudspeaker of a couple of years ago. How I came from indignation - the heresy of a non-ESL Quad! - to sheer love for that performing tiny tot.

The TL431 is a 3-terminal shunt regulator which some in the DIY community attribute near-magical properties to. And yet, in audio industry it is nearly never used. It is a component with reasonable ...