In this year again, vintage ruled and got a lot of attention at the show. While Silbatone attended the show for the third time in a row, Keith Aschenbrenner from Auditorium 23 also brought a vintage ...

This is a variation of a simple shunt regulator design that has been floating around on the net. It is a unity-gain (thanks to the feedback through C1) amplifier that consists of gain-element Q1 and ...

What I heard here came as something of a surprise to me. While not wishing to generalise, my previous experiences with French speakers from Triangle which I had the opportunity to listen to, whether ...

A vintage idler drive Lenco in good condition, cleaned and adjusted, with no modifications other than to the tonearm, sounds better than any new $1000 turntable on the market. Put on a used RB300 ...

You all know which is the job that a speaker stand should do: put the speaker at the correct height from the floor, control its resonancies and be stiff enough to avoid any rocking when the speaker is ...

Sound is vibration. Audio sys tems are primarily vibration generators. Many parts of an audio system are very effective vibration detectors too. The problems were explored in part 1 or our vibration ...

Audiophile all-in-one systems are popular at the moment. It all started with the Linn Klassik, but really took off with the Arcam Solo (see review), which I reviewed some time ago and found to be ...

Among audiophiles it is quite common wisdom to consider moving coil cartridges the best way to play vinyl (with some notable exception, though). MC cartridges are normally expensive and require high ...

Fashions come and go and that's as true of hi-fi as any other part of our lives. When recorded sound was first invented, the sound was amplified by horns until somebody invented the moving coil type ...

There are certain moments in everyone's life, when we try to deepen our understanding about something that we generally are not familiar with. Sometimes we try to learn, come to understand and then ...

DIY projects for building audio and HiFi cables. Interconnects, digital, power and mains cables plus general theoric articles. All the projects are FREE and NOT FOR SALE.

A while ago a friend pointed my interest to a tuning article for old style SME tonearms, a bronze knife edge bearing. As I have always been an afficionado of old SME tonearms, I wanted to give it a ...