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.

If there is one name in Hi-Fi which is synonomous with excellent sound, and at the same time with excellent price, that name is Dynaco. Of all the audio manufacturers, both past and present, Dynaco is ...

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 ...

This year is Rotel's 40th anniversary. Over the years, they have turned from a me-too company to a respected brand name, one which does things its own way. But unusually enough, they seem to be held ...

Sub-compact or mini monitors, neither really conveys how tiny these little beauties are. With the main driver cone just 8 cms across and the tweeter faceplate not a lot smaller, packed into a baffle ...

Harman/Kardon, as the largest American audio manufacturer, hardly requires special introduction. Its founders, Dr Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon pioneered the audio industry, along with such great ...

The oft described (especially among women's magazines) male mid-life crisis is supposed to be a desperate menopausal attempt to reclaim the joys of lost youth, the sense of wild adolescent playfulness ...

As I begin to write yet another review of a new turntable, I'm struck by the crushing irony that the title I'd thought up 'A Turntable for CD Lovers' is increasingly irrelevant. With new turntables ...

When SME launched this tonearm, I was curious about its sound and performance. While it looks old fashioned with its weight-and-string antiskating device, at the same time it is built using modern ...

This classic studio monitor was available variously from September 1974 to December 1995, despite the appearance of the successor to its domestic stablemate, the NS2000, in the early 1980's. It is ...

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 ...

In the world of Hi-Fi there are few components that are the subject of so many different and often conflicting theories than those that surround the design of tonearms. Rigid or flexible, damped or ...