The vinyl LP demands a conscious approach to its packaging, due mainly to its size, a neat 305mm square being the perfect billboard on which to display a seductive invitation to treat. Its high street ...

Più di altri formati, i dischi LP richiedono un approccio consapevole al loro packaging (inteso come la combinazione della copertina e delle altre componenti della confezione, N.d.T.), dovuto ...

A long time ago, in an analogue era far away, preamps were complicated things, with volume, balance, tone and loudness controls. They also had phonostages, tape loops and outputs for headphones.

Il concetto originale che ha lanciato la Ohm era un progetto Lincoln Walsh per un diffusore mono-altoparlante, largabanda, omnidirezionale. L'obiettivo era abbastanza semplice: creare un'esperienza ...

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 ...

When I visited Blumenhofer Factory in January, I liked their small Fun 13 very much. So Andrea Vitali and I agreed to have them reviewed. The Fun 13 has a high but small and slim cabinet, with its ...

Recently I was in conversation with a manufacturer of turntables and arms. He said that in his opinion, given a basic level of competence in the turntable, the arm was responsible for 80% of the sound ...

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 ...

In recent years we have seen the rise in interest in vinyl replay, records as we used to call them, and they are even available in some of the larger UK supermarkets, amazing. Thanks to Analogy ...

In an age of increasing miniaturization, our assessment of hi-fi equipment may have changed somewhat from those days where we made a preliminary judgment of something based on how much it weighed.

Recently there has been quite a discussion on the TNT forum regarding bass performance. One correspondent asked whether a piano got down as low as 50 Hz and it made me realise that most of us don't ...

This article outlines some basic factors which can influence the sound of your system, sometimes quite dramatically, and offers some advice and suggestions for tweaking accordingly. The potential ...