I have been off for some years, had to cope with health and family issues, and after I had Corona, it rather stayed than went away, so Post-Covid took me three years ago. It was just last October, ...

This UK-based HiFi Company has earned a well-deserved reputation worldwide both because of the quality of its loudspeakers and for the large number of models which offers to the audiophile crowd.

As I sit here trying to read an article in Stereophile about of all things, decimation (down sampling high bit rate recordings on CD's) I keep getting interrupted by Emerson, Lake and Palmer who are ...

Heart, a company owned by hi-fi dealer Rik Stoet, are a small Dutch manufacturer of tube amplifiers and of output transformers for said amps. Before you start making up jokes about the name, they ...

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 ...

According to some internet audio gurus' subtle opinions, only two moving coil cartridges are really worth their salt these days. The very affordable Denon DL-103, and the not-unaffordable Shelter 501.

Regular readers will have seen my review of the Dynavector DRT-1 cartridge. As objects of desire go it's high on my personal list. However it has two problems - firstly its sheer cost puts it beyond ...

I don't really enjoy reviewing cables very much. It's quite a hassle to replace one cable for another, and it means switching off the power amp, which then has to warm up again after the swap.

As with most budget conscious CD-Players, one of the most inadequate parts that make up the whole is the Chassis/Case. Marantz's Ken Ishiwata has realised that himself and therefor the MAIN ...

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 ...

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

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.