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

Oh no. Cables. Not that old HiFi chestnut again! Quick, shut him up HE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT CABLES! The naked truth about cables? It is simply, that all this cable nonsense is Bovine Excrement! I am ...

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 ...

Part I of this two-part series was an overview of the Edison cylinder player in general. Now it's time to look at some specifics. If you're familiar with Leica cameras, you probably have seen that ...

In the first installment of this series we had a look at the noise generated at the output of a number of easy to build and cheap voltage regulators: single-chip series and shunt regs (LM317/337 and ...

As I worked on the TNT AirCoil DIY Interconnect write up I did a lot of thinking and reading around the question of how the capacitance affects frequency response and how low does the interconnect ...

Revisiting a component that has been updated is often a thankless task. In many cases the 'update' isn't so much a design improvement, but something forced onto a manufacturer. The worse such case was ...

Recently there has been quite a discussion on the TNT forum regarding bass performance. One correspondent asked whether a piano got down as low as 50 Hz and it made me realise that most of us don't ...

Availability: directly from L C audio or through distributors (check LC Audio price list) Price [directly from L C Audio]: LClock XO around 120$, dedicated power supply around 27$, Hyperkit ...

Robert Graetke, the maker of the bronze bearing for SME knife edge tonearms, phoned me in January and told me that he had devellopped a new product: a bronze base for the old style SME tonearms. I ...

Having a properly aligned cartridge not only reduces distortion, but also insures the least amount of damage to the vinyl's grooves. Besides, Lucio (a cool dude after all) is helping me give them away ...