Heart, a company owned by hi-fi dealer Rik Stoet, are a small Dutch manufacturer of tube amplifiers and of output transformers for said amps. Before you start making up jokes about the name, they ...

I promised myself when I started writing for TNT that I would never review cables! It is one of the most hotly debated, and controversial aspects of hi-fi, and one that we are never all going to agree ...

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 ...

The output resistance of an emitter follower, assuming a sufficiently low impedance driving the base terminal, is approximately given by the formula R = 30 / Ic, with Ic the collector current in milli ...

I was mightily impressed with the simplicity and effectiveness of the Foz SS-X Sound Stage Expander, so jumped at the offer of an audition sample of this phono crosstalk reduction tool, also from ...

The first serious cartridge I ever bought was a Denon DL-301, back in 1988. Hairy business, as I decided to buy unheard, based on a review only (such stupidity), and the 301 would cost me about 50% of ...

Pathos is an Italian Company which specializes in hybrid (tube + solid state) amplifiers and, generally, unorthodox HiFi components. Their motto is Pathos, the unorthodox approach. There's always ...

£500 extra buys the £2799 Thorens TD1601 over the £2299 TD1600. This £500 buys an optical sensor arm lift. "£500 for an end of side arm lift?" Demand Plebs, stage left, "Surely that's a lot of dosh to ...

Tutto cominciò una fredda mattina d'inverno quando, dietro invito dell'amico Ruggero, mi recai a casa sua per ascoltare l'ultima fatica valvolare da lui realizzata. Che si trattasse di qualcosa di ...

Approx. price: 88 $/72 Euro (10ml bottle) - 255 Euro/312 US$ (50 ml bottle) (25% off on Summer orders) You already know the story as you've probably read the Inter.View with Dieter Ennemoser, the man ...

One of the most enjoyable reviews that I have written for TNT-Audio was for a pair of Audiofilia AF-S2 loudspeakers. So when Audiofilia offered us another pair of their speakers to review, I jumped at ...

About a year and a half ago, I was lurking around Audio Asylum and clicked on the Events link looking for something happening somewhere near my hometown of St. Louis. I happened across a posting ...