This spanish company exhibited some audio servers with original playing/archiving software. Two models are proposed. The Aria Mini is more lifestyle, is an i-Pad dedicated model and costs about € ...

The High End show in Munich is not about hifi gear, as everyone would think. In truth the show is about social life. Enthusiasts meet and greet. Gurus meet their followers. Godfathers meet altar boys.

Whenever I have mentioned the 6SN7GT valve (tube) in my reference modified Assemblage SET300B Signature Edition, I have hinted at a preferred NOS (New Old Stock) example that I dare not name as it has ...

Back in January 2010, I reviewed the P&S OPC271 OPTO-POTENTIOMETER, a volume control that used Light Dependent Resistors (LDR's) to control the volume level. To recap briefly, this allows us to do ...

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.

I've always found cartridge alignment a nerve-wracking chore, being frustrated by the innate inaccuracy of most tools involved, and of the tedious tiring eyeballing process itself, of course. All of ...

It is not often you get to review an audio component that has its very own page on the wikipedia. Or one that has been around for almost 35 years. One that sold over three million units in that time.

Frequency response: Less than +/- 0.5 dB deviation 20Hz-20kHz Phase response: Less than 5 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, or less than 2 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, depending which Consonance/Opera ...

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 ...

Fashions come and go and that's as true of hi-fi as any other part of our lives. When recorded sound was first invented, the sound was amplified by horns until somebody invented the moving coil type ...

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 ...

As part of my upcoming speaker comparison articles (about ten pairs), I decided that I needed some decent speaker stands. Two pairs in fact. It just so happens that one of my oldest buds (George) ...