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 ...

in 2016 I had the pleasure of reviewing a new cartridge on the market – the Hana SL low-output moving coil, and I think it's fair to say that it got a rave review. Whilst not a budget cartridge by any ...

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 ...

Revisiting a component that has been updated is often a thankless task. In many cases the 'update' isn't so much a design improvement, but something forced onto a manufacturer. The worse such case was ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the manufacturer the Gold Lion KT88 is an attempt to recreate the original Genalex, which was introduced in 1957. Opinions on the original valve's performance I found while researching ...

Approx. list price: 50$ US (1 meter with Turbine connectors) There's no need to introduce you to the Monster Cable HiFi Company since it is maybe the best known cable Company in the planet and so well ...

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 ...