20 is a magic number for HiFi amplifiers. Many budget good-sounding amplifier had (or still have) that number has a part of their name. Just to name few examples: the Rotel 820 and 920 (plus various ...
Probably pretty well everyone who has an active interest in DIY speaker building will know the Audio Nirvana brand and the CommonSense Audio website. Even a cursory browse through the many discussion ...
In Europe, and particularly in Italy, where I live, the Denon brand became popular in the early 1960s when MC cartridges for broadcast use appeared that sounded really good: it was 1963 and the Denon ...
There is a fine line between prudent maintenance and an irrational obsession. And I have never been sure where using a Record Cleaning machine (RCM) ever fell on that scale. I have never been one to ...
As far as I know, only two hi-fi components owe much of their sales figures outside of their intended home markets to the internet. The first is the Lehmann Black Cude, which originally got reviewed ...
Setting up an audio system to perform in the best manner possible often takes great investments of time, effort, and money. This process is clearly more art than science. There are many variables to ...
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 ...
Nelson Pass is certainly one of the major technical figures in the international Hi-Fi community. He owns a large number of international patents like, for instance, the dynamic Class A. His most ...
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 ...
30 months ago TNT-Audio published a review that shook the HiFi market like never before: the T-Amp phenomenon was born! After that review many things happened: crowds of audiophiles fell in love with ...
Much to my shame my original text contained an important error. It read that the Shure M97xE body is compatible with the VN5MR replacement stylus, while in reality it ...
Over the last ten years I've built seven of Mr. Ivan Leslie's kits and so I suppose it's time I wrote something about them for TNT. IPL is a one-man band, Mr Ivan P Leslie does it all. I like his ...