Approx. price: 180 EUR the pair (price quoted with European VAT) Test samples bought and paid in full. It is now 4 years ago, that I wrote my first article on different moving coil transformers. At ...

Sound & Vision, at the Marriot hotel in Bristol, is the UK's second most important audio trade show, after the London Hi-Fi Show in September. But while London has grown big, too big; crowded, too ...

Ever since their takeover by a Scandinavian group do Tannoy display a technological vitality that might well turn them into a new B&W. Fifteen years after Meridian pioneered the concept is there now a ...

We are spoilt for choice when it comes to DAC's (and all hi-fi) these days. There seem to be so many available now that choosing one is becoming quite a difficult task. Many of them come from the Far ...

Fashions come and go and that's as true of hi-fi as any other part of our lives. When recorded sound was first invented, the sound was amplified by horns until somebody invented the moving coil type ...

This section aims to give a (hopefully useful) hand to fellow audiophiles on a budget who are in the market to buy their first HiFi system or to upgrade an existing one, mainly having a look at the ...

CAYIN is a German Company with manufacturing plants in China. This industrial approach implies a strong reduction of manufacturing costs that should be reflected by the final price of the products.

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 ...

Recently there has been quite a discussion on the TNT forum regarding bass performance. One correspondent asked whether a piano got down as low as 50 Hz and it made me realise that most of us don't ...

Approx. list price: 50$ US (1 meter with Turbine connectors) There's no need to introduce you to the Monster Cable HiFi Company since it is maybe the best known cable Company in the planet and so well ...

As with most budget conscious CD-Players, one of the most inadequate parts that make up the whole is the Chassis/Case. Marantz's Ken Ishiwata has realised that himself and therefor the MAIN ...

Many years ago, in the dim past, during the time of "flat earth", there came a new champion. Where others feared to tread, Xerxes strode out to do battle with the feared Linn - lord of all he surveyed ...