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 ...
Everyone knows how important is the quality of the record in order to get good results from our stereo system. Simply put, our hi-zoot stereo systems can do nothing if the record we're trying to ...
The Polycrystal PD-1 Point Discs are a rare product. I know of only 3 similar attempts at commercially produced spike-interfaces. One of those ceased production years ago, the Origin Live machined ...
It is long time since I wrote the last article for Termoionica Applicata. In the meanwhile I have spent a lot of time with very different projects, all solid state, for example the Solidphono, the ...
Jolida is a company relatively well known among audiophiles for producing good sounding, high value tube amplifiers and digital components for use in home audio. According to the company's website, ...
It's been a long time since I made the cables I'm presenting here, yet I have never seriously thought of them as a project for TNT Audio. I thought the topic was a tad redundant, due to the presence ...
Analysis Plus came to my attention a little over a year ago with some splashy print advertising for their line of speaker cables and interconnects. These ads, in case you are unfamiliar with them, ...
A while ago I was in need of a new Phono Pickup Cartridge. Having stayed for a long time with such budget favorites as the Cambridge C-77 and a nice NAD 9100, I was not going to shell out for a Koetsu ...
How technology moves on. It seems quite recently that playing music from a computer was something for a comparatively few 'geeks', and now, well, it is probably the most common method for the playback ...
Some time ago, our Editor was contacted by a company we weren't aware of. The company was proposing to our attention a very special DAC, based on a completely new approach. Lucio promptly passed on ...
Audio Note is elusive. If you are an avid reader of cellulose hifi magazines, you may have read appraisals from those top-class reviewers. Perhaps their product's unbelievable price tags are one of ...
Regular readers will be aware that I've taken quite a shine to high-end products produced by Opera Audio in China, in fact I now own their LP 5.0 turntable, and amplifier duties in my main review ...