The vinyl LP demands a conscious approach to its packaging, due mainly to its size, a neat 305mm square being the perfect billboard on which to display a seductive invitation to treat. Its high street ...
Più di altri formati, i dischi LP richiedono un approccio consapevole al loro packaging (inteso come la combinazione della copertina e delle altre componenti della confezione, N.d.T.), dovuto ...
Large reservoir capacitors notwithstanding, for really high quality power supply we need additional filtering. As seen on the Diagrams, small value capacitors, in the 100-220nF region are used to ...
Astin Trew is a relatively new English audio brand run by Michael Osborn. He started the company less than 3 years ago and in that time managed to produce a preamp, a power amp, an integrated amp and ...
Holfi is a Danish Company which likes to think and design different. A quick look at their website unveils some peculiar features shared by all the products in their catalogue. For example, they ...
In the world of Hi-Fi there are few components that are the subject of so many different and often conflicting theories than those that surround the design of tonearms. Rigid or flexible, damped or ...
One of the most frequently asked questions on our Readers' Corner appears to be related to speakers placement. More precisely, audiophiles seem to be concerned by the presence of the rear wall, 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 ...
I promised myself when I started writing for TNT that I would never review cables! It is one of the most hotly debated, and controversial aspects of hi-fi, and one that we are never all going to agree ...
This no ordinary record review. Here we are not concerned with music, but with a record specifically designed to help you set up your cartridge/arm so that when you do come to play music you will get ...
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 ...
Garrard Labs was a Company that between the 60s and the 80s designed and built many turntables and some of these are considered, even today, nice examples of high precision craftsmanship and of a ...