The Linn Mjik is an integrated amplifier with 33 watts per channel (@ 8 Ohms) and the unit I'm going to tell you about was equipped with a phono board. Aesthetically the Majik is very similar to the ...

Over the years there have been many attempts to minimize the tracing distortion inherent in vinyl replay which we all live with and suffer with to a greater or lesser extent. Longer 12 inch and then ...

TNT first reviewed the Harmony DA9 DAC in 2005 when Lucio concluded that is was something of a bargain. Since that time, Harmony Design have continued to develop the DA9 to improve it still further. I ...

The first serious cartridge I ever bought was a Denon DL-301, back in 1988. Hairy business, as I decided to buy unheard, based on a review only (such stupidity), and the 301 would cost me about 50% of ...

The term "integrated amplifier" always seems to be a source of confusion for some audiophiles. Just what is an integrated amplifier? Is it just an amplifier like any other, or is it something more?

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 ...

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 ...

Many years ago, in the dim past, during the time of "flat earth", there came a new champion. Where others feared to tread, Xerxes strode out to do battle with the feared Linn - lord of all he surveyed ...

Jolida is a company relatively well known among audiophiles for producing good sounding, high value tube amplifiers and digital components for use in home audio. According to the company's website, ...

A while ago I was in need of a new Phono Pickup Cartridge. Having stayed for a long time with such budget favorites as the Cambridge C-77 and a nice NAD 9100, I was not going to shell out for a Koetsu ...

Holfi is a Danish Company which likes to think and design different. A quick look at their website unveils some peculiar features shared by all the products in their catalogue. For example, they ...

£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 ...