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 ...

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 ...

First of all, by digital cable I will mean an interconnect cable between CD transport (or CD/DVD player used as pure transport) and an external D/A converter (DAC). The DAC can be a completely ...

This is a variation of a simple shunt regulator design that has been floating around on the net. It is a unity-gain (thanks to the feedback through C1) amplifier that consists of gain-element Q1 and ...

Among seasoned audiophiles MC (moving coil) cartridges have always been considered the top of the heap, the creme de la creme, best of the best :-) At the same time, MM (moving magnet) carts have been ...

DIY projects for building audio and HiFi cables. Interconnects, digital, power and mains cables plus general theoric articles. All the projects are FREE and NOT FOR SALE.

It's time once again to look at a component that most of the non hifi nut public doesn't even know exists. The humble phono stage. What seems like just another amplification stage has an important job ...

HiFi listening (and reviewing) seems to be a purely subjective matter: just plug in your ears and play, if you can. Now, this works fine for the casual listener, someone who, probably, isn't reading ...

I have to say, that even before I got my hands on these speakers, I was very impressed by its design - especially the crossover-less drivers, time-aligned MTM profile, bass response down into the 30s ...

This UK-based HiFi Company has earned a well-deserved reputation worldwide both because of the quality of its loudspeakers and for the large number of models which offers to the audiophile crowd.