The TL431 is a 3-terminal shunt regulator which some in the DIY community attribute near-magical properties to. And yet, in audio industry it is nearly never used. It is a component with reasonable ...

Projects for building HiFi loudspeakers and general articles on commercial speakers tweaking and upgrading.

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 ...

After unpacking the box from Marchand Electronics several months ago, I found myself staring at the new pair of EC626 monoblocs. Outwardly, they didn't look much different from another pair of solid ...

The luminous blue of the preamplifier's display and of the LEDs indicating that the amplifiers are switched on, set against the aluminum of the front panel and of the whole chassis of this vaguely ...

Section devoted to listening tests: amplifiers, preamps, power amps, compact disc players, separate DACs, analogue gear, cables and various accessories, loudspeakers.

This article supplements Graeme Budd's evaluation last June of the Graham Slee Accession phono preamp (top component, photo right). [1] Taking it from the perspective of one devoted to modern LPs, ...

Looking for a pair of compact speakers for use in a study, I considered several models from a variety of manufacturers, but was intrigued to come across the KEF Coda 70s. KEF, from Maidstone in the UK ...

The Dino is a two-box design. The power supply being a small toroid in a plastic box. This provides the raw AC which is regulated in the stage itself. It's ugly so hide it. The Dino proper is prettily ...

£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 ...

Miracles do occasionally happen. Consider cylinder records and phonographs. Both disappeared from the market in 1929, by which point the players were yesterday's technology and much of the music ...

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 ...