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WEBTNT-Audio - weekly updated online HiFi magazine, free and truly independent (no advertising). TNT-Audio features listening tests, DIY tips and free projects, interviews, reportages, factory tours, a Readers' Corner, buying guides, advices for novices and newbies and much more! Also available in Italian.
Yamamoto PB-9, PB-10, PB-20 & PB-21 - setting bases
WEBThe PB-9, PB-10, PB-20 and PB-21 are more universal in application. As rigid tuning devices the Yamamoto PB-9, PB-10, PB-20 and PB-21 should be in every high end audiophile's armory of tuning devices to try under each new component while establishing whether that component benefits from stiff or lossy support.
[Review] Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus [English]
WEBThe DacMagic 100 is a fairly simple USB equipped DAC. Its USB input will handle data at rates of up to 192Khz (excluding 176.4kHz) as well as having two S/P DIF inputs and one Toslink optical input. Outputs are RCA only – losing the Coaxial outputs of its larger stablemate. The USB is an asynchronous implementation which should offer a low ...
PS Audio NuWave Phono Converter - Phono preamplifier and ADC
WEBPerhaps sometime in the future I'll do a review series of ADC units. The concept for the NuWave phono is to combine an analog phono preamplifier, with a Analog To Digital Converter, with a massive power supply, and provide fully balanced class A analog outputs as well as multiple digital outputs including DSD and PCM. Pretty versatile I'd say.
Sound Pressure Level Meter by RadioShack - TNT-Audio
WEBIt measures the level of the sound pressure generated by a musical instrument, a stereo system or an angry mother-in-law, by means of a built-in microphone. It has a fully adjustable sensitivity range, from 50 to 126 dB. It has a 3-digit display which shows both the average and peak sound pressure level (up to you to decide which one to measure)
SE84B Zen Triode from High Fidelity Engineering, budget single …
WEBProduct: SE84B Zen Triode, power amplifier. Manufacturer: Decware, High Performance Audio - USA. Retail price: $749.00 USD (suggested) - $549.00 USD (factory direct) (kit, $449.00 USD factory direct) Reviewer: Richard George. The SE84B Zen Triode is one of the lowest priced, new manufacture, single-ended triode (SET) amplifiers on the market.
[Review] Doge 8 tube preamplifier - TNT-Audio
WEBComplete specs are available on the Doge web page listed above. Tube Complement: 4 X 12AX7, 4 X 12AT7R. Power Consumption standby: 0.5 Watts. Power Consumption total: 39 Watts. Gain MM: 52, MC 72. Input Impedance: 50,000 Ohms. Dimensions : 44" W x 36" D x 12" H (cm) Net Weight (per monoblock): 14 lbs.
A Brief Guide to Edison Cylinder Phonographs - TNT-Audio
WEBI think it's safe to say that, aside from some of the even higher-end exotic machines released in limited numbers at the end of the open horn era, the big, heavy, powerful Triumph is the Edison phonograph to which most cylinder collectors aspire. Fitted with 2/4-minute gearing, a flipover Model O combination reproducer, and one of the deluxe ...
[Review] Audiophile Capacitors listening test on TNT-audio [English]
WEBThe capacity of the insulator is measured as its dielectric constant (k) and varies between just over k =1 for air, through k =2 for materials like Teflon and k =6, to much more practical capacitor materials like tantalum k =27 and various ceramics ranging from k =30 to k =3000. That is why ceramic capacitors are tiny beads and Teflon ...