Atacama is a well-established British Company which specializes in stands, HiFi racks, spikes and HiFi furniture in general. Every audiophile worth his weight in spikes knows that audio accessories ...

The Maestro integrated amplifier is a big machine with a thick polished metal front, a huge knob for volume control and a few LED indicators. It captures your attention because of its monstrous volume ...

It's time once again to look at a component that most of the non hifi nut public doesn't even know exists. The humble phono stage. What seems like just another amplification stage has an important job ...

Sicuramente le casse sono tra i componenti HiFi di più difficile scelta. Cercheremo intanto di capire alcuni concetti di base per poi addentrarci nella disamina di alcuni possibili criteri di scelta.

Garrard Labs was a Company that between the 60s and the 80s designed and built many turntables and some of these are considered, even today, nice examples of high precision craftsmanship and of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

This review is a bit of a departure for me. Usually, I publish a review and then answer letters concerning the review. With the JoLida JD-100A, I have received countless e-mails that read something ...

Thule Audio's CD100 CD player, seen above its sibling IA60 integrated amplifier, represents the Danish company's entry level model, as does it sibling in amplification. However, as we shall see, that ...

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 ...

I have now lived with the Polk Audio Model RT15i now for two months. Polk Audio, has been around since 1972 and have always had a solid reputation for building reliable speakers. When I first received ...

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 ...