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 ...

I love Astin Trew. I reviewed the At3500 CD player last year and liked it so much that I bought it. It has been my reference CD player since, and has already beaten quite a bit of competition, without ...

The longest journey, we are told, begins with the first step, to which I'd add, the longest article begins with the first cliché. Leaving aside cylinders, with their own set of unique demands, for ...

How many times have we spoken about WAF, complaining about our mates' skepticism for our favourite game? Now it's just the "wife" who felt in love for those beautiful post-modern sculptures by Audio ...

The year is 1985. I'm a young school teacher with all the buying power that profession usually brings to the market. But I loved music and so blew £250 on a second hand Linn LP12 - why that turntable?

Attenzione: Gli eventi descritti in questo articolo sono veri. Alcune persone potrebbero essere disturbate dai contenuti grafici. i nomi non sono stati cambiati per esporre i veri idioti al mondo ...

Yamaha has an uncommonly long tradition in manufacturing musical instruments, dating back to 1862. With that kind of background, which few audio manufacturers can boast, one expects products a cut ...

French audio is, I feel, far too little known outside France, with perhaps a few notable exceptions. This is a shame, as I believe we are missing out more than we should. Particular as they often are, ...

Frequency response: Less than +/- 0.5 dB deviation 20Hz-20kHz Phase response: Less than 5 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, or less than 2 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, depending which Consonance/Opera ...

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 ...

English local newspapers have sections devoted to classified advertisements where one might dispose of an old item of furniture for a few pounds or buy that first rust-heap of a car. At the top of ...

You may remember a quite unique CD player that I reviewed from Hungarian company Human Audio back in January 2011. One of the key features of the Libretto system was that it was battery-powered, ...