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 ...
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 ...
Analysis Plus came to my attention a little over a year ago with some splashy print advertising for their line of speaker cables and interconnects. These ads, in case you are unfamiliar with them, ...
Spesso si utilizza il termine jitter. Ma che cosa è in realtà il jitter, e quali sono i suoi effetti? In questo articolo tento di affrontare esaustivamente l'argomento. E, beh, sì, insomma, ...
Once you leave the anemic dynamics of all monkey coffins you are taking on a brave new challenge that few Americans are able to confront...the challenge of authentic music dynamics that only horns can ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...