About a year and a half ago, I was lurking around Audio Asylum and clicked on the Events link looking for something happening somewhere near my hometown of St. Louis. I happened across a posting ...

Tutto cominciò una fredda mattina d'inverno quando, dietro invito dell'amico Ruggero, mi recai a casa sua per ascoltare l'ultima fatica valvolare da lui realizzata. Che si trattasse di qualcosa di ...

Jitter is a form of digital distortion without a real parallel in the analogue audio domain. In my simple mind it works like this. Digital recording samples information about a sound wave thousands of ...

£500 extra buys the £2799 Thorens TD1601 over the £2299 TD1600. This £500 buys an optical sensor arm lift. "£500 for an end of side arm lift?" Demand Plebs, stage left, "Surely that's a lot of dosh to ...

HiFi listening (and reviewing) seems to be a purely subjective matter: just plug in your ears and play, if you can. Now, this works fine for the casual listener, someone who, probably, isn't reading ...

Among seasoned audiophiles MC (moving coil) cartridges have always been considered the top of the heap, the creme de la creme, best of the best :-) At the same time, MM (moving magnet) carts have been ...

First of all, by digital cable I will mean an interconnect cable between CD transport (or CD/DVD player used as pure transport) and an external D/A converter (DAC). The DAC can be a completely ...

This is a variation of a simple shunt regulator design that has been floating around on the net. It is a unity-gain (thanks to the feedback through C1) amplifier that consists of gain-element Q1 and ...

Joe Skubinski of JPS Labs has been manufacturing high quality audio products since 1990. This product is the third JPS Labs product that TNT-Audio has had the opportunity to review. For additional ...

This UK-based HiFi Company has earned a well-deserved reputation worldwide both because of the quality of its loudspeakers and for the large number of models which offers to the audiophile crowd.

The TP106 VR+ amplifier was a modern take on an old idea, the ultralinear configured push-pull tetrode integrated amplifier; the Canor CD2 VR+ Precision Tube CD Player is almost the reverse. This CD ...

L'ultimo diffusore importato dalla dinamica MondoAudio è stato quel Duevel Bellaluna Diamante che tanto mi ha impressionato, insolito quanto ben suonante. L'oggetto di questa prova è, invece, piccolo ...