A long time ago, in an analogue era far away, preamps were complicated things, with volume, balance, tone and loudness controls. They also had phonostages, tape loops and outputs for headphones.

The Puccini is a 40 watts integrated amplifier designed with an ultraminimalist approach in mind (just volume and input selector), entirely developed and built in Italy. Audio Analogue is a new ...

Tony Minasian: Sì. Uno qualsiasi. Io: Beh, credo di averne uno vecchio in garage. Tony Minasian: E per quanto riguarda i cavi di potenza, cavo per lampade; niente di ricercato. Ho davvero un vecchio ...

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 ...

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 not the happiest way to re-open the magazine after our usual holidays break but I simply can't avoid this. A week ago a true legend of the HiFi arena, James Bongiorno, passed away. It is a sad ...

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 ...

As before the outer panels are 32 mm thick Supawood (dense MDF) and finish is piano black. Again the hardest part are the cut outs required to fit the magnet structure of the Goodmans driver which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

I don't really enjoy reviewing cables very much. It's quite a hassle to replace one cable for another, and it means switching off the power amp, which then has to warm up again after the swap.