The quality of incoming power being fed to a system from the electrical outlets didn't enter most people's minds years ago. Indeed, even as little of 10 years ago, power conditioners were rare on the ...
Anyone reading my turntable tests will know that throughout the reference has been my Michell Orbe/SME4 combination. Though a fine pairing in many ways it has been shown up by several of the test ...
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 ...
In Spring 2005 I began writing the following piece, "Recently several noise problems have plagued my system. There is endless mutation of the system and its component locations due to the regular ...
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 ...
Sitting on my shelves in my music room are around 2000 records. They vary in age, wear and quality, but to me they are the most important part of my hi-fi. Many of these were bought in an orgy of ...
After the esoteric DIY designs by our Thorsten Loesch, here on TNT-Audio, here's something simpler, aimed to the absolute beginners. A speakers cable easy to build and cheap which can be considered ...
Cost: Module - 120 UK pounds. Plug-and-play PSU - 350 UK pounds. In 2008 I reviewed the Virtue Audio.ONE and .TWO class-T amplifiers and very much liked what I heard. The V1 and V2 came with a choice ...
I never throw old hi-fi mags away. They act as a long term reference and help me with readers questions about obsolete hi-fi - anyway the magazine that started this article is a February 1993 issue of ...
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 ...
The Decca International tonearm is an early unipivot designed for Decca cartridges. It has a number of interesting features: * the unipivot floats on magnetic suspension to damp the effect of rumble ...
Expert audiophiles know how to fight and control vibrations and resonancies of HiFi equipment. The market offers sooooo many anti-vibration devices that choosing the right one seems almost impossible.