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 ...

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 ...

Alcuni anni fa decisi di cambiare il pre-amplificatore, che ritenevo essere, all'epoca, l'anello debole del mio impianto. La sfida sarebbe consistita nel trovare il miglior componente possibile entro ...

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 ...

What's this then, since when is TNT doing tuners? It isn't actually, it's just me being controversial again. Actually, I must confess - I'm a radio freak. When I was in the first grade, way back in ...

The phrase There are more ways than one to skin a cat could have been invented to describe the art of getting music from the tiny grooves of an LP record. You don't need me to list the huge variation ...

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 ...

For some people, hi-fi can be a cruel mistress! An endless quest for better sound quality. Just when you are satisfied with one part of your system, another part cries out for up-grading! One of the ...

After the good results of the Preamble there was another component type I wanted to test in the single ended circuit topology I am working on. Nuvistors were the last born in the classic tube world: ...

The sole role of your Hi-Fi system is to extract the information recorded on your source material and generate sufficient power to drive your chosen loudspeakers. Ideally, apart from any required ...

Supra (Jenving) is a well-known HiFi manufacturer that built its fame upon a series of speaker cables which were very popular during the Eighties, when audiophiles started to consider seriously the ...