Più di altri formati, i dischi LP richiedono un approccio consapevole al loro packaging (inteso come la combinazione della copertina e delle altre componenti della confezione, N.d.T.), dovuto ...

The vinyl LP demands a conscious approach to its packaging, due mainly to its size, a neat 305mm square being the perfect billboard on which to display a seductive invitation to treat. Its high street ...

This turntable and arm combination need a health warning on two counts. Firstly, with the Ultra version on review here, it weighs a considerable 55Kg, therefore it is easy to hurt yourself during ...

It sometimes seems to me that vinyl addicts, and in particular those swimming in the deep end of the obsession, revel in promoting the 'black art' aspects of setting up a turntable, arm and cartridge.

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 ...

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 ...

First of all, by digital cable I will mean an interconnect cable between CD transport (or CD/DVD player used as pure transport) and an external D/A converter (DAC). The DAC can be a completely ...

Molti audiofili alle prime armi, ai quali, lo ricordo, è dedicata questa rubrica divulgativa, ritengono ingenuamente che basti acquistare dei buoni componenti audio per ottenere una corretta ...

When SME launched this tonearm, I was curious about its sound and performance. While it looks old fashioned with its weight-and-string antiskating device, at the same time it is built using modern ...

Many audiophiles with a technical background have thought, at least once, of designing a magnetic levitation support for their HiFi components. It is sufficient to have a look at newsgroups and HiFi ...

Jitter is a form of digital distortion without a real parallel in the analogue audio domain. In my simple mind it works like this. Digital recording samples information about a sound wave thousands of ...

This is a variation of a simple shunt regulator design that has been floating around on the net. It is a unity-gain (thanks to the feedback through C1) amplifier that consists of gain-element Q1 and ...