The TL431 is a 3-terminal shunt regulator which some in the DIY community attribute near-magical properties to. And yet, in audio industry it is nearly never used. It is a component with reasonable ...

"Ladies & gentlemen, may we take the minutes of the first meeting as read? We proceed to the business of the second meeting... gentlemen, and ladies, START YOUR ENGINES" "Aarrrrrgh...this is deafening ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canary appears to me to be a bit of a strange bird. Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun. On their web site they don't indicate an address or place of business. If you ...

It's long been the case that the considered Holy Grail for vinyl replay is the ubiquitous Moving Coil Cartridge and it is often suggested that one should head off down the MC route as soon as funds ...

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 ...

Many audiophiles with a technical background have thought, at least once, of designing a magnetic levitation support for their HiFi components. It is sufficient to have a look at newsgroups and HiFi ...

Di recente, c'è stata un'interessante discussione sul forum inglese di TNT-Audio riguardante le prestazioni in gamma bassa. Un lettore chiedeva se il pianoforte scende fino ai 50 Hz, e ciò mi ha fatto ...

First of all, by digital cable I will mean an interconnect cable between CD transport (or CD/DVD player used as pure transport) and an external D/A converter (DAC). The DAC can be a completely ...

You all know which is the job that a speaker stand should do: put the speaker at the correct height from the floor, control its resonancies and be stiff enough to avoid any rocking when the speaker is ...