In the mid of the 70s I decided to buy a Marantz amplifier, attracted by the reputation that the American firm had among audiophiles. I was so excited to put my hands over a Marantz component that, ...

In Part 1 of this series we looked at the output signal of voltage regulators caused by noise, i.e. the output generated by the regulators themselves, irrespective of the load or the raw supply. In ...

Systems and Magic have just launched a new version of their mains conditioning products. The original conditioners were reviewed on TNT Audio in 2008. Kindly, the manufacturer provided examples of ...

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 ...

Whenever I have mentioned the 6SN7GT valve (tube) in my reference modified Assemblage SET300B Signature Edition, I have hinted at a preferred NOS (New Old Stock) example that I dare not name as it has ...

Iniziai a fabbricarmi cavi di segnale fin da quando, per la prima volta, mi interessai all'autocostruzione nel mondo dell'Hi-Fi. A quel tempo ero abbastanza cosciente che la scelta dei cavi ha un ...

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 ...

As I begin to write yet another review of a new turntable, I'm struck by the crushing irony that the title I'd thought up 'A Turntable for CD Lovers' is increasingly irrelevant. With new turntables ...

The oft described (especially among women's magazines) male mid-life crisis is supposed to be a desperate menopausal attempt to reclaim the joys of lost youth, the sense of wild adolescent playfulness ...

We're living a magic moment for the HiFi made in Italy since, besides some well-known brands, a whole *new wave* of excellent Italian HiFi components is quickly becoming more and more important, with ...

The Trasparent Cables are well known to the audiophile community for their strange appearance: almost every cable by this Company is equipped with a mysterious black box, called the Transparent ...

This is easily the best loudspeaker I have ever heard. This dawned on me as I was positively dreaming away in the music, only minutes after starting a listening session. My ESL-57s can have the same ...