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?

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

As more and more of us turn to computer streaming for our source of music, it looks as though the good old CDP is now well in decline! Conversely, and for the same reason, the stand-alone DAC can look ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term "integrated amplifier" always seems to be a source of confusion for some audiophiles. Just what is an integrated amplifier? Is it just an amplifier like any other, or is it something more?

What I heard here came as something of a surprise to me. While not wishing to generalise, my previous experiences with French speakers from Triangle which I had the opportunity to listen to, whether ...