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 ...

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.

New Force or, rather, NuForce...kinda like NuMetal. The name says it all. NuForce is a branch (spin-off?) of NPhysics, a Company which holds several international patents in electronics and digital ...

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 ...

TNT-Audio - weekly updated online HiFi magazine, free and truly independent (no advertising). TNT-Audio features listening tests, DIY tips and free projects, interviews, reportages, factory tours, a ...

Looking for a pair of compact speakers for use in a study, I considered several models from a variety of manufacturers, but was intrigued to come across the KEF Coda 70s. KEF, from Maidstone in the UK ...

Tutti i diffusori piuttosto piccoli vengono chiamati, a volte impropriamente, minidiffusori. è difficile stabilire una soglia minima al di sotto della quale si è considerati *mini*, diciamo che ...

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 ...

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 ...

La prima cosa che bisogna chiarire è che non si può collegare il giradischi ad un qualunque ingresso "linea" (tipo CD, AUX, TAPE etc.). La ragione è molto semplice: il segnale in uscita dal giradischi ...

My, my, there are so many many audio amplifiers to choose from, in fact far too many and the task can seem daunting and just too hard. How to meaningfully differentiate? From my vantage point in New ...