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 € ...

Availability: directly from L C audio or through distributors (check LC Audio price list) Price [directly from L C Audio]: LClock XO around 120$, dedicated power supply around 27$, Hyperkit ...

It's time once again to look at a component that most of the non hifi nut public doesn't even know exists. The humble phono stage. What seems like just another amplification stage has an important job ...

in 2016 I had the pleasure of reviewing a new cartridge on the market – the Hana SL low-output moving coil, and I think it's fair to say that it got a rave review. Whilst not a budget cartridge by any ...

Audio Note is elusive. If you are an avid reader of cellulose hifi magazines, you may have read appraisals from those top-class reviewers. Perhaps their product's unbelievable price tags are one of ...

£500 extra buys the £2799 Thorens TD1601 over the £2299 TD1600. This £500 buys an optical sensor arm lift. "£500 for an end of side arm lift?" Demand Plebs, stage left, "Surely that's a lot of dosh to ...

I've always been very impressed by those documentaries where you are shown, as symbols of productivity and high-tech, complicated, computerised robots, that, in a short while, are able to produce the ...

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 ...

Dopo i due episodi degli argomenti più tosti (Parte I & Parte II), nella Parte III della nostra esplorazione dei diffusori andiamo a palpeggiare quello che c'è di ...

Tube design is a very good choice for DIY pre-amplifiers, as it can give good results with a limited effort, especially in design, even though it is not all that easy to achieve optimum results. The ...

The world might increasingly be going digital, but I still love vinyl. It might just be nostalgia, but I keep enjoying the good old 'black gold'. There's just something about the sound that keeps me ...

A while ago a friend pointed my interest to a tuning article for old style SME tonearms, a bronze knife edge bearing. As I have always been an afficionado of old SME tonearms, I wanted to give it a ...