Forgive me because now we're going to have on of my rambling introductions. The DRT-1t is Dynavector's new flagship cartridge. Regular readers will know that I've reviewed and been a long term user of ...

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 ...

From the Scandinavian south, Denmark, arrives for trial on the pages of TNT-Audio, a product which is in some aspects amazing: the Densen De Magic! Is this perhaps one of those particular systems of ...

Let's go back in time to the dark days before silicone - go pre-transistor and you have puny valve amps where 15 watts is seen as meaty. Then along comes the transistor. In the space of a decade we go ...

When asked about the best method to clean vinyl records my answer has always been the same: just avoid them getting dirty :-) In other words, if a vinyl is bought new and well stored afterwards it is ...

One of the websites I like to check from time to time is Tony Gee's Humble Homemade Hifi. It is a very interesting site about DIY speaker design and building. One of my favourite pages is Tony's ...

The DacMagic 100 is a fairly simple USB equipped DAC. Its USB input will handle data at rates of up to 192Khz (excluding 176.4kHz) as well as having two S/P DIF inputs and one Toslink optical input.

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 ...

Model Chorus 707 is a 2 way speaker, with one 178 mm mid/bass driver and JMLab's proprietary 25 mm inverted titanium dome tweeter, terminated with a phase plug. The mid/bass unit uses what JMLab calls ...

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 ...

Just few days after his e-mail I received the interconnect cables made by our English contributor Thorsten Loesch. He was a little enigmatic when we had a talk about those interconnects and their ...

Tube design is a very good choice for DIY pre-amplifiers, as it can give good results with a limited effort, especially in design, even though it is not all that easy to achieve optimum results. The ...