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 ...

New Force or, rather, NuForce...kinda like NuMetal. The name says it all. NuForce is a branch (spin-off?) of NPhysics, a Company which holds several international patents in electronics and digital ...

Il concetto originale che ha lanciato la Ohm era un progetto Lincoln Walsh per un diffusore mono-altoparlante, largabanda, omnidirezionale. L'obiettivo era abbastanza semplice: creare un'esperienza ...

When I visited Blumenhofer Factory in January, I liked their small Fun 13 very much. So Andrea Vitali and I agreed to have them reviewed. The Fun 13 has a high but small and slim cabinet, with its ...

After the shocking success of the T-Amp, almost 15 years ago (!!!) we have tested many other chip-based inexpensive amplifiers. They all lacked something, be it sufficient output power, reasonable ...

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 ...

This is a dual function pre-amp as it has a valve phono stage as well as the regular pre-amp functionality. The THÖRESS pre-amp uses dual mono volume controls, I prefer a single stereo volume control ...

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 ...

Regular readers will be aware that last year I did a group test of 300B valves using my Audionote Quest Silver monoblock amps to carry them. The group comprised valves from Audion, Audionote, ...

This is a pure, 100% wooden rack proudly made in China. It looks solid, clean and well designed. It can easily hold 2 HiFi components on each shelf for a total of at least six. Shelves are not ...

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 ...

Approx. price: Sword 3m pair: $795 - Rondo 4x2.5= $2.60 / foot - Fork XL Spades= $20.00 / pack I admit to having a long-standing curiosity about the Swedish Supra line of cables. First of all, they're ...