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 ...

Sound & Vision, at the Marriot hotel in Bristol, is the UK's second most important audio trade show, after the London Hi-Fi Show in September. But while London has grown big, too big; crowded, too ...

Ever since their takeover by a Scandinavian group do Tannoy display a technological vitality that might well turn them into a new B&W. Fifteen years after Meridian pioneered the concept is there now a ...

We are spoilt for choice when it comes to DAC's (and all hi-fi) these days. There seem to be so many available now that choosing one is becoming quite a difficult task. Many of them come from the Far ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...