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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps I should begin this review by stating that I am not a fan of smaller loudspeakers. I have always found it easier to get the sound that I like from larger drivers, with the speakers in my main ...

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 ...

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 ...

I auditioned a number of CD-Players, before buying my CD-67 SE. I felt that of all the CD-Players in question (which shall remain unnamed) it offered the most music for the money. Having lived with ...

The NN Z Speaker Filter connects across speaker terminals. It filters out high frequency interference that is picked up via the speaker cable and internal speaker wiring, and is created by speaker ...

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 ...

Robert Graetke, the maker of the bronze bearing for SME knife edge tonearms, phoned me in January and told me that he had devellopped a new product: a bronze base for the old style SME tonearms. I ...

Having a properly aligned cartridge not only reduces distortion, but also insures the least amount of damage to the vinyl's grooves. Besides, Lucio (a cool dude after all) is helping me give them away ...

Reviewed: January, 2015 (updated March 2016). Sadly, I'm old enough to remember the introduction of cassette tape as a hi-fi medium, never mind the arrival of Compact Disc (CD) in 1982. What was ...