8 years ago, early on in my TNT adventures in Hi-Fi, I unpacked one component I'd really been looking forward to getting my hands on – the SME IV pick-up arm. The reasons for my excitement were pretty ...

DIY projects for building audio and HiFi cables. Interconnects, digital, power and mains cables plus general theoric articles. All the projects are FREE and NOT FOR SALE.

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 ...

Tutto cominciò una fredda mattina d'inverno quando, dietro invito dell'amico Ruggero, mi recai a casa sua per ascoltare l'ultima fatica valvolare da lui realizzata. Che si trattasse di qualcosa di ...

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 ...

£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 ...

Approx. price: 88 $/72 Euro (10ml bottle) - 255 Euro/312 US$ (50 ml bottle) (25% off on Summer orders) You already know the story as you've probably read the Inter.View with Dieter Ennemoser, the man ...

A while ago I was in need of a new Phono Pickup Cartridge. Having stayed for a long time with such budget favorites as the Cambridge C-77 and a nice NAD 9100, I was not going to shell out for a Koetsu ...

A vintage idler drive Lenco in good condition, cleaned and adjusted, with no modifications other than to the tonearm, sounds better than any new $1000 turntable on the market. Put on a used RB300 ...

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 ...

I must begin this review with an apology, as I've kept the Newtronics Skorpion X review samples for far too long. I meant to have this review completed weeks (months?) ago. In my defense, it's ...

This is a variation of a simple shunt regulator design that has been floating around on the net. It is a unity-gain (thanks to the feedback through C1) amplifier that consists of gain-element Q1 and ...