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.

There's no need to introduce Audio Analogue, the Italian brand located in Tuscany which has earned a very good reputation among audiophiles mainly thanks to its integrated amps, the Puccini and the ...

Oh no. Cables. Not that old HiFi chestnut again! Quick, shut him up HE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT CABLES! The naked truth about cables? It is simply, that all this cable nonsense is Bovine Excrement! I am ...

Il concetto originale che ha lanciato la Ohm era un progetto Lincoln Walsh per un diffusore mono-altoparlante, largabanda, omnidirezionale. L'obiettivo era abbastanza semplice: creare un'esperienza ...

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 ...

This is the first time we are reviewing a NuPrime product but, actually, we've been following Jason Lim's (NuPrime co-founder) career since his early days at NuForce. In 2014, Jason bought the assets ...

Russell K is a small and relatively new British loudspeaker company that offers just three models: two bookshelf and a floorstander (Red 50, Red 100 and Red 150, respectively). These loudspeakers have ...

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 I worked on the TNT AirCoil DIY Interconnect write up I did a lot of thinking and reading around the question of how the capacitance affects frequency response and how low does the interconnect ...

Durante le prove, i recensori, usano spesso un set standard di materiale registrato su vinile e CD. Il vantaggio sta nel rendere standard la procedura di test quando recensiscono differenti apparecchi ...

Recently there has been quite a discussion on the TNT forum regarding bass performance. One correspondent asked whether a piano got down as low as 50 Hz and it made me realise that most of us don't ...