A while ago a friend pointed my interest to a tuning article for old style SME tonearms, a bronze knife edge bearing. As I have always been an afficionado of old SME tonearms, I wanted to give it a ...

8 years ago, early on in my TNT adventures in Hi-Fi, I unpacked one component I'd really been looking forward to getting my hands on – the SME IV pick-up arm. The reasons for my excitement were pretty ...

Last year I set myself a little target of trying as many different cartridges as I could so I could get a handle on what worked with what and how much to pay. This year I've promised to try to do the ...

The T-Amps and all the Class-D amplifiers that invaded the market in recent years introduced a new deal in HiFi: their unbelievable quality/price ratio was simply revolutionary. However a common ...

Over the last 10 or 15 years there have been some interesting developments in the integrated amplifier market with the arrival of digital output stages bringing small, powerful amps into the forefront ...

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.

There are numerous, sometimes conflicting, theories on the best ways to keep LP records and replay stylii clean, but one thing everyone agrees on is that either or both must be kept clean to minimise ...

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 ...

Forgive me because now we're going to have on of my rambling introductions. The DRT-1t is Dynavector's new flagship cartridge. Regular readers will know that I've reviewed and been a long term user of ...

Recently there has been quite a discussion on the TNT forum regarding bass performance. One correspondent asked whether a piano got down as low as 50 Hz and it made me realise that most of us don't ...

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 recently had the fortune that my Flat was re-wired to high standards (without cost to me) and that indeed made an impact on overall sound Quality. It resulted in me applying some more attention ...