Projects for building HiFi loudspeakers and general articles on commercial speakers tweaking and upgrading.

You may remember my review of the Spendor-made Quad 10L loudspeaker of a couple of years ago. How I came from indignation - the heresy of a non-ESL Quad! - to sheer love for that performing tiny tot.

Originally this review was meant to be of the new Elevator moving coil (MC) step-up amplifier (or head-amp). I'd already done the Slee GramAmp stages and Werner had reviewed the up-market 'Era Gold' ...

Do I hear somebody saying "oh no - not another class-T amp review"? Well yes and no. The Temple Audio Bantam Gold is another tiny amplifier based on a class-D chip. But the chip in this case was not ...

Do you savor the sweet and sultry sound of a directly-heated, single-ended triode like a 2A3? Perhaps you prefer the incredible speed, accuracy, and detail found in the best single-ended pseudo-triode ...

Section devoted to listening tests: amplifiers, preamps, power amps, compact disc players, separate DACs, analogue gear, cables and various accessories, loudspeakers.

This article supplements Graeme Budd's evaluation last June of the Graham Slee Accession phono preamp (top component, photo right). [1] Taking it from the perspective of one devoted to modern LPs, ...

Looking for a pair of compact speakers for use in a study, I considered several models from a variety of manufacturers, but was intrigued to come across the KEF Coda 70s. KEF, from Maidstone in the UK ...

A vintage idler drive Lenco in good condition, cleaned and adjusted, with no modifications other than to the tonearm, sounds better than any new $1000 turntable on the market. Put on a used RB300 ...

I've been investigating some visually very attractive and reasonably-priced wood bodies for popular pickup cartridges and carbon accessories for high-end turntables. Close inspection of all but the ...

Go back to Part I and Part II of this series of articles. This Coral derived cabinet has fascinated me from the outset and when a pair of Goodmans Twin Axioms came my way I started on yet another ...

£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 ...