I have been off for some years, had to cope with health and family issues, and after I had Corona, it rather stayed than went away, so Post-Covid took me three years ago. It was just last October, ...

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.

TNT-Audio has already reviewed Cambridge Audio products, namely the D 500 and the D 500 SE CD players. Hence, for more info on this UK-based Company, I'd suggest reading those reviews and/or visit the ...

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

As the great debate still rages on about analog vs. digital, I don't know if it will ever end. It might someday. Maybe when they (the digital gurus out there) finally figure out that CD's sound, well ...

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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 ...

£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 ...

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 ...

I've been thinking and working around a good level pre-amplifier for a long time. Various SIMPRE configurations were experiments related to this research. I wanted a really good pre-amplifier, not too ...