A lot has been written about the differences between active and passive loudspeaker systems, even here at TNT, but I had never even experienced a proper active speaker in my system. Most loudspeakers ...

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 ...

This article supplements Graeme Budd's evaluation last June of the Graham Slee Accession phono preamp (top component, photo right). [1] Taking it from the perspective of one devoted to modern LPs, ...

I've been investigating some visually very attractive and reasonably-priced wood bodies for popular pickup cartridges and carbon accessories for high-end turntables. Close inspection of all but the ...

Back in January 2011 (and I can hardly believe that it was that long ago) I reviewed a couple of very expensive items from Human Audio, They were both designed as no-compromise hi-fi, and ...

£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 ...

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 ...

Casting my memory back to 1992 I had an eighteenth birthday coming up and deciding to be different to my friends I decided I wanted a turntable rather than the usual Marantz CD50 SE (complete with ...

In this increasingly Internet based streaming age, with CD's going the way of the dinosaurs, a new and cheap way of playing back your little silver discs is welcome. Especially one that doesn't get in ...

People select components for their audio system based on many varying criteria. Some people are attracted to prestige names, exotic looking cases or the bragging rights that accompany 5 figure price ...

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 ...

A friend of mine bought a Logitech SB3 and a used Entech 205.2 DAC (I don't think the Entech is still available). After a few mods to the DAC, he reported excellent results using a Toslink (optical) ...