Some time ago, our Editor was contacted by a company we weren't aware of. The company was proposing to our attention a very special DAC, based on a completely new approach. Lucio promptly passed on ...

Regular readers will be aware that last year I did a group test of 300B valves using my Audionote Quest Silver monoblock amps to carry them. The group comprised valves from Audion, Audionote, ...

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 ...

Thule Audio's CD100 CD player, seen above its sibling IA60 integrated amplifier, represents the Danish company's entry level model, as does it sibling in amplification. However, as we shall see, that ...

A while ago a friend pointed my interest to a tuning article for old style SME tonearms, a bronze knife edge bearing. As I have always been an afficionado of old SME tonearms, I wanted to give it a ...

Approx. price: 180 EUR the pair (price quoted with European VAT) Test samples bought and paid in full. It is now 4 years ago, that I wrote my first article on different moving coil transformers. At ...

I think, or at least I hope, that we have all by now realised that digital audio is just as subject to the influences of the playback system as analogue audio. In this review I'll step-aside from the ...

As part of my upcoming speaker comparison articles (about ten pairs), I decided that I needed some decent speaker stands. Two pairs in fact. It just so happens that one of my oldest buds (George) ...

Ed infine, la Figura 4 illustra un alimentatore "serio". Tanto per iniziare possiamo notare che ogni metà dell'alimentatore ha il suo proprio ponte rettificatore. Ciò permette dei significativi ...

After the good results of the Preamble there was another component type I wanted to test in the single ended circuit topology I am working on. Nuvistors were the last born in the classic tube world: ...

I've been investigating some visually very attractive and reasonably-priced wood bodies for popular pickup cartridges and carbon accessories for high-end turntables. Close inspection of all but the ...

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 ...