For those of you who have read my review of the JD-302B, you may notice that both amplifiers appear to be identical. In fact, they are both extremely similar, sharing the same chassis, transformers, ...
When I received a sample of the Trends Audio UD-10 USB DAC nearly six years ago I little realised that my review would be the start of me auditioning a whole system from that supplier. But recently I ...
Expert audiophiles know how to fight and control vibrations and resonancies of HiFi equipment. The market offers sooooo many anti-vibration devices that choosing the right one seems almost impossible.
30 months ago TNT-Audio published a review that shook the HiFi market like never before: the T-Amp phenomenon was born! After that review many things happened: crowds of audiophiles fell in love with ...
Some time ago, our Editor was contacted by a company we weren't aware of. The company was proposing to our attention a very special DAC, based on a completely new approach. Lucio promptly passed on ...
Revisiting a component that has been updated is often a thankless task. In many cases the 'update' isn't so much a design improvement, but something forced onto a manufacturer. The worse such case was ...
A couple of months ago I reviewed the hybrid amplifier Maverick TubeMagic A1, distributed in Italy by Troniteck, a young and dynamic Company which specializes in budget-oriented HiFi products.
Robert Graetke, the maker of the bronze bearing for SME knife edge tonearms, phoned me in January and told me that he had devellopped a new product: a bronze base for the old style SME tonearms. I ...
Certainly, Linn needs no introduction. Besides the world renowned LP12, a top of the line turntable for more than a decade, its product range is significantly extended towards all other fields in High ...
Abacus is a German hifi brand and quite unknown outside of their own country, even if they seem to have a bit of a reputation there. The website and manuals are all in German, with no translation ...
Continuing with my comparison of phono cartridges that retail for less than $500 USD (in the US market), this article follows the survey I began in this comparison of 4 cartridges. Here I examine the ...
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 ...