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This spanish company exhibited some audio servers with original playing/archiving software. Two models are proposed. The Aria Mini is more lifestyle, is an i-Pad dedicated model and costs about € ...
NuForce product range includes a few of the best sounding "class D" or non-conventional amplifiers in the most recent years. TNT Readers already met their Reference 9 power monoblocks, monsters that ...
We HiFi reviewers have a long list of records that routinely play to evaluate electronic components. Normally, we use at least two reference albums for any musical genre, so to have a quick way to ...
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 ...
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 ...
The above schematic comprises almost anything you can put around the ubiquitous LM317 positive 3-pin regulator (LM337 for negative voltages, 117 and 137 military versions). The basic circuit dispenses ...
You may know that setting up the right stylus pressure is crucial not only for the best sonic results from your analogue turntable but also to avoid damaging the LPs while playing. A correct tracking ...
Availability: directly from L C audio or through distributors (check LC Audio price list) Price [directly from L C Audio]: LClock XO around 120$, dedicated power supply around 27$, Hyperkit ...
Music is the reason for our hobby and there are many approaches that make sense depending on our needs and wants. I have only once in fifty odd years of hifi, ever owned a commercially built speaker ...
The Decca International tonearm is an early unipivot designed for Decca cartridges. It has a number of interesting features: * the unipivot floats on magnetic suspension to damp the effect of rumble ...
La 300b Western Electric ha una storia lunga e brillante, nella quale non intendo addentrarmi in questo breve sunto! È stata progettata negli anni 30 specificatamente come valvola di potenza per uso ...
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 ...