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 ...

On 18 July 1877 Thomas Edison placed a sharpened needle onto a rotating cylinder covered with waxed paper, and the era of recorded sound began*. This first phonograph worked by taking the vibrations ...

"Ladies & gentlemen, may we take the minutes of the first meeting as read? We proceed to the business of the second meeting... gentlemen, and ladies, START YOUR ENGINES" "Aarrrrrgh...this is deafening ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I auditioned a number of CD-Players, before buying my CD-67 SE. I felt that of all the CD-Players in question (which shall remain unnamed) it offered the most music for the money. Having lived with ...

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 ...

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 ...

First of all, by digital cable I will mean an interconnect cable between CD transport (or CD/DVD player used as pure transport) and an external D/A converter (DAC). The DAC can be a completely ...

Many of us have over the years come across amplifiers, mostly from reputable sources and at rather steep prices, which have made us want to have them. More often than not, two aspects have drawn our ...