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 ...

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 ...

Nel 1968 la Superscope Inc. acquisiva l'azienda Marantz dal suo fondatore, il leggendario Saul B. Marantz, che poi andò in pensione quattro anni dopo. Dall'acquisizione, la Superscope sviluppò e ...

Over the last 10 or 15 years there have been some interesting developments in the integrated amplifier market with the arrival of digital output stages bringing small, powerful amps into the forefront ...

A vintage idler drive Lenco in good condition, cleaned and adjusted, with no modifications other than to the tonearm, sounds better than any new $1000 turntable on the market. Put on a used RB300 ...

How about some artisan analogue audio imagery from an ancient land and the time of the Kimono? Fellow vinyl voyagers, I would like to introduce the NIPPON PRECISION JEWEL INDUSTRY CO. LTD., otherwise ...

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 ...

As with most budget conscious CD-Players, one of the most inadequate parts that make up the whole is the Chassis/Case. Marantz's Ken Ishiwata has realised that himself and therefor the MAIN ...

This classic studio monitor was available variously from September 1974 to December 1995, despite the appearance of the successor to its domestic stablemate, the NS2000, in the early 1980's. It is ...

What's this then, since when is TNT doing tuners? It isn't actually, it's just me being controversial again. Actually, I must confess - I'm a radio freak. When I was in the first grade, way back in ...

This is a pure, 100% wooden rack proudly made in China. It looks solid, clean and well designed. It can easily hold 2 HiFi components on each shelf for a total of at least six. Shelves are not ...