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 ...

Buongiorno egregio direttore, ho letto l'editoriale uscito ieri, mi ha fatto molto piacere vedere l'articolo della visita alla azienda Fosi Audio, e non vedo l'ora di vedere la recensione del ...

On 18 July 1877 Thomas Edison placed a sharpened needle onto a rotating cylinder covered with waxed paper, and the era of recorded sound began*. This first phonograph worked by taking the vibrations ...

Oh no. Cables. Not that old HiFi chestnut again! Quick, shut him up HE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT CABLES! The naked truth about cables? It is simply, that all this cable nonsense is Bovine Excrement! I am ...

Section devoted to DIY and tweaking. Free online projects of amplifiers, loudspeakers, cables, accessories plus articles on easy upgrades for commercial components. All the designs are FREE and NOT ...

Atoll? Say what? Do you really want to read a long story or will you be happy with a short resumee? Ok, let's go for the short resumee :-) Atoll Electronique is a new French HiFi Company founded in ...

Hawthorne Audio essentially sells coax drivers with a few variations and ancillary products, giving the consumer quite a range of options and configurations to choose from. The drivers come in either ...

It's time once again to look at a component that most of the non hifi nut public doesn't even know exists. The humble phono stage. What seems like just another amplification stage has an important job ...

After the shocking success of the T-Amp, almost 15 years ago (!!!) we have tested many other chip-based inexpensive amplifiers. They all lacked something, be it sufficient output power, reasonable ...

Part I of this two-part series was an overview of the Edison cylinder player in general. Now it's time to look at some specifics. If you're familiar with Leica cameras, you probably have seen that ...

People select components for their audio system based on many varying criteria. Some people are attracted to prestige names, exotic looking cases or the bragging rights that accompany 5 figure price ...

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 ...