CQ Amateur Radio

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Two decades ago, in 1999, I wrote a column predicting what I thought the future would be like in the coming 20 years and, as strange as it seems to me, it’s finally here. As it appears that the COVID-19 situation is still not well under control by th

What Hi-Fi?

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View online review whf.cm/A-9010 On the surface, the Onkyo A-9010 looks like a pretty ordinary amplifier. It is neat in a wholly functional way, but lacking any overt design flourishes and it is clear that pretty much all of Onkyo's efforts have been

What Hi-Fi?

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It’s not often we come across a new stereo amplifier that is able to challenge the Award-winning Rega Brio. But the Audiolab 6000A takes the fight straight to our reigning champion when it comes to mid-priced stereo amplifiers. This is the most affor

CQ Amateur Radio

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Low frequency transistor circuits (below 30 mc) are rapidly becoming passe and reader interest seems to be swinging to vhf stuff. Following the trend, I am brewing up several circuits that will interest you high frequency hounds. Future columns will

Stereophile

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Oh goody!” thought self, to self: “Another Gryphon component to review.” As eloquent and revelatory as that statement may be, there’s an even more illuminating backstory. I had been aware of Denmark-based Gryphon Audio since the advent of the Gryphon

T3 India

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The audio amplifier was invented in around 1912 by Lee De Forest who developed the first triode vacuum tube, also known as a valve. The first amplifiers were therefore valve amplifiers. With the invention of transistors in the early 1960s, audio ampl

Hi Fi News

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Barry Willis Journalist for top American audio-video publications Technician and writer on all things audio for some 30 years, Paul Miller took over the editor’s chair in 2006. He invented the QC Suite, used across the audio industry Sometimes I just

Sound and Image

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We could fill this small space left available by the product’s enormous brand plus model name in talking merely about the needle displays, or the best-looking volume control we’ve ever seen (black surround and copper-coloured inlay, and actually a ro

Hi Fi News

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Philips should have been a dominant player in the hi-fi arena, yet many of its products somehow missed the mark. Despite these repeated failures, every now and again the sleeping giant would wake from its slumbers and produce something miraculous – C

CQ Amateur Radio

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CQ is in the middle of celebrating its 75th year of serving the Amateur Radio Service. Within those 75 years, technology and ham radio experienced tremendous change. Arguably, one of the biggest changes involved the transition from vacuum tube techno

CQ Amateur Radio

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It was a dark and cloudy day when this defective radio was returned to the 221B Baker Street Laboratory for analysis. I had offered my services to the Ministry of Defence before to help with some of the more singular failures. Watson was unavailable

CQ Amateur Radio

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I confess. I am attracted to inexpensive workbench test gadgets, especially when a gadget proves to be useful and accurate. The operative word in the preceding sentence is “inexpensive.” I’m always looking for an innovative “good deal” in electronic

CQ Amateur Radio

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With warmer weather here, the chance to go out and do a bit of fox hunting comes to mind. The biggest problem I have encountered is not finding what direction the signal is coming from when far away from the signal source. Rather, my problem is overl

Stereophile

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In my personal life I prefer the minimalist, one-box architecture of integrated amplifiers. Always have. Before I started writing for Stereophile, my only audio system consisted of a pair of 15 ohm Rogers LS3/5a loudspeakers (with factory wall mounts

Linux Format

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Let’s use the Raspberry Pi’s general purpose input output (GPIO) to do some work. Under the control of a Python script, the GPIO output will drive a heavy load – meaning that the electrical current is in the magnitude of amps rather than milliamps. F

Hi Fi News

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Like other readers, I decided to set myself a project as a way of battling through lockdown. In July 2020, I began messing about with an old amplifier I’d acquired and an even older pair of Castle Trent standmount speakers. After refurbishing the spe

Australian HiFi

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It is always risky talking about product we have not received yet, but there is so much hype being generated overseas about Krell’s new products, and we hope to have them by the end of March anyway, so here goes. One of the all-time classics from Kre

Hi Fi News

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Electronics Engineer Technician and writer on all things audio for some 30 years, Paul Miller took over the editor’s chair in 2006. He invented the QC Suite, used across the audio industry Sometimes I wonder whether our regular Vintage Review feature

Australian HiFi

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The new Vinnie Rossi L2 Signature preamplifier and monoblock power amplifiers are now available in Australia. The Vinnie Rossi L2 Signature Preamplifier uses ultra-wide bandwidth Class-A circuitry that incorporates direct heated triodes (DHTs) powere

Australian HiFi

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Italian high-end hi-fi manufacturer Audia Flight has in recent years worked very hard to not only increase the number of products in its range, but also increase the diversity of its range, this last a project that is enhanced because most of the com

Hi-Fi Choice

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Which two products does the Evo3 Sigmas combine? A) Titan and Corsa B) Titan and Focus C) Titan and Nova Here’s a conundrum that may well have a ring of familiarity about it to long-term HFC readers: you’ve spent years putting your beloved system tog

Australian HiFi

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Hugh Dean has been manufacturing amplifiers in Melbourne for more than 20 years. He owns a company called Aspen Amplifiers. His Maya and Saksa solid-state power units were marketed as ‘bespoke’ units in Australia and overseas. His current products ca

Hi-Fi Choice

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By virtue of a series of new international shipping networks, an under valued currency and technological innovation, Japan was able to indelibly stamp itself on the consumer electronics world of the seventies – and things have never been the same sin

Guitar Magazine

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There’s a phenomenon I’ve come to recognise any time I’ve dropped in to peruse one of the many amp-related online forums–something I like to call ‘research’, but which is probably just the same quest for that quick endorphin hit most of us indulge in

Hi Fi News

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The evolution of T+A’s products, and its high-end HV (High Voltage) range in particular, has been closely monitored by reviews in Hi-Fi News over the last ten years. We asked the brand’s head of R&D, Lothar Wiemann, about the inspiration behind this

Hi Fi News

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Contributor Steve Harris edited HI-FI NEWS between 1986 and 2005. He loves jazz, blues music, vinyl and vintage hi-fiand anything that makes good music come to life When J M Hendrix moved into a flat in Brook Street in July 1968 he was intrigued to l

Hi-Fi Choice

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At first glance, the Primare I25 appears to be rather under equipped. The stripped back spec might appeal to audio purists, but the Class D design may divide opinion. In both cases, the devil is in the detail. Rated at 2x 100W power output into 8ohm,

Australian HiFi

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The buzz around the new Krell K-300i integrated amplifier continues to gather momentum. A week does not go by without a journalist or a reviewer somewhere in the world giving this amplifier the thumbsup. It’s also been named ‘Amplifier of the Year’—u

Hi Fi News

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Winning an EISA award last year for its highend H390 amplifier, Hegel now offers an entry-level £1500 integrated, the H95. This incorporates the company’s latest UPnP streaming solution along with a menu system that allows for those all-important ‘ov

Sound and Image

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Once (and still) known for its high-value entry-level and midrange separates, NAD has had its reputation transformed in the last decade by its Masters series, which has taken the company to a new level. This $8999 M33 is the latest in the series, des