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 ...

Sitting on my shelves in my music room are around 2000 records. They vary in age, wear and quality, but to me they are the most important part of my hi-fi. Many of these were bought in an orgy of ...

Projects of solid state electronics such as amplifiers, preamps, DACs, phono preamps. Also a crash course on solid state power supplies.

Questa è la seconda parte della recensione relativa ai DAC prodotti da Cambridge Audio. La prima parte riguarda il DacMagic Plus, DAC molto completo, disponibile nei negozi ad un prezzo di circa 400€, ...

To begin with, a few listeners with relatively high-gain audio systems found that the lowest gain setting on the original Purist (+6dB) was more than they needed - they were using less than one-half ...

Zu Audio has been around for just over a decade, fairly young by any standard. In that short time they have managed to make a bit of a name for themselves, mainly around their loudspeakers and ...

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.

Less than 1 year ago I reviewed the NorthStar Model 192 DAC, a D/A converter which makes use of the well known upsampling technique, bringing the usual 16/44 CD format up to 24/192. Last autumn the ...

Faccia un passo avanti chi non si è mai trovato interdetto, leggendo progetti, articoli e cataloghi, davanti alla sigla AWG preceduta da un numero che individua il diametro di un cavo elettrico e non ...

This isn't an article per se as much as it is a further explanation of some of our DIY cable and interconnect projects. Between our egroup and personal emails, we have been receiving numerous ...

Miracles do occasionally happen. Consider cylinder records and phonographs. Both disappeared from the market in 1929, by which point the players were yesterday's technology and much of the music ...

8 years ago, early on in my TNT adventures in Hi-Fi, I unpacked one component I'd really been looking forward to getting my hands on – the SME IV pick-up arm. The reasons for my excitement were pretty ...