People select components for their audio system based on many varying criteria. Some people are attracted to prestige names, exotic looking cases or the bragging rights that accompany 5 figure price ...

A while ago a friend pointed my interest to a tuning article for old style SME tonearms, a bronze knife edge bearing. As I have always been an afficionado of old SME tonearms, I wanted to give it a ...

Frequency response: Less than +/- 0.5 dB deviation 20Hz-20kHz Phase response: Less than 5 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, or less than 2 degrees deviation 20Hz-20kHz, depending which Consonance/Opera ...

The above schematic comprises almost anything you can put around the ubiquitous LM317 positive 3-pin regulator (LM337 for negative voltages, 117 and 137 military versions). The basic circuit dispenses ...

8 years ago, early on in my TNT adventures in Hi-Fi, I unpacked one component I'd really been looking forward to getting my hands on – the SME IV pick-up arm. The reasons for my excitement were pretty ...

It's been a long time since I made the cables I'm presenting here, yet I have never seriously thought of them as a project for TNT Audio. I thought the topic was a tad redundant, due to the presence ...

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 ...

Many audio equipment manufacturers these days use operational amplifiers. Operational amplifiers are a simple solution for obtaining gain and low distortion. These devices cost pennies, though there ...

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.

The Ortofon name is well known to pretty much anyone who has ever owned a turntable. It is kind of amazing to think they have continued to offer and refine phono cartridges over the last ninety-years ...

Regular readers of TNT Audio will be familiar with Geoff Husband's review of the Dynavector XX-2 Moving Coil cartridge. In that review Geoff said "The XX-2 is a stunning cartridge. It's far from a ...

A sweeping statement... "Second hand speakers are such good value and such a safe buy you need a REALLY good reason to buy new..." Of all second hand components speakers are the pick of the bunch.