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 ...

To borrow a term from the late Dr Gizmo, "Musical Ecstasy" can be achieved only at the expense of sanity. I must admit to selling my LP collection with the introduction of the CD and later regretting ...

"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 ...

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 ...

You may remember my review of the Spendor-made Quad 10L loudspeaker of a couple of years ago. How I came from indignation - the heresy of a non-ESL Quad! - to sheer love for that performing tiny tot.

Questa è la terza registrazione della Soundkeeper Recordings che recensisco. Mentre le altre due sono state registrate secondo lo standard molto elevato per il quale la Soundkeeper Recordings è ...

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 ...

Approx. price: 180 EUR the pair (price quoted with European VAT) Test samples bought and paid in full. It is now 4 years ago, that I wrote my first article on different moving coil transformers. At ...

£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 ...

As with most budget conscious CD-Players, one of the most inadequate parts that make up the whole is the Chassis/Case. Marantz's Ken Ishiwata has realised that himself and therefor the MAIN ...

Some readers might ROFL (Roll On Floor Laughing) at the thought of paying over 300 bucks for a brand new pair of valves, even if some elderly tubes go for even more dosh. It is a bit like the classic ...