Si dice, e la mia esperienza empirica concorda, che il suono di una testina media può cambiare significativamente dopo 1.000 ore di funzionamento, ed entro 2.000 ore (complessive) essa deve essere ...

"Ladies & gentlemen, may we take the minutes of the first meeting as read? We proceed to the business of the second meeting... gentlemen, and ladies, START YOUR ENGINES" "Aarrrrrgh...this is deafening ...

Projects for building HiFi loudspeakers and general articles on commercial speakers tweaking and upgrading.

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 ...

Devo continuare a ripetere a me stesso: “Non devi diventare un fanatico di Schiit”. Devo mantenere un atteggiamento equilibrato e non scrivere una revisione di parte. Da un po' di tempo a questa parte ...

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 ...

£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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The output resistance of an emitter follower, assuming a sufficiently low impedance driving the base terminal, is approximately given by the formula R = 30 / Ic, with Ic the collector current in milli ...

The build quality of Doge 8 is very impressive. The metal box is very heavy gauge with 6 mm side panels and the top panel is just under 4 mm thick. It is screwed down with no less than 12 machine ...