Product: NAD 3140 vintage integrated amplifier Year: 1980 Manufacturer: NAD - Canada (formerly UK) Approx. price: highly variable, from 100 to 250€ Reviewer: Lucio Cadeddu - TNT Italy Reviewed: April, 2021 Foreword The NAD 3140 is often referred to be the 3020's “bigger brother”. Actually, these two amps have just the preamp section in common (a 1020, more or less) but everything else is ...

Keep Your Tonearm! Product name: DIY Lenco Tonearm Fixes Manufacturer: not for sale, TNT-Audio DIY design Author: Roger McCuaig - TNT Canada Published: May, 2020 Introduction 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 series tonearm or a Jelco ...

Products: Elac Debut 5.2, 6.2, 6.2 Reference - bookshelf loudspeakers Manufacturer: Elac - Germany Approx. price: DB52: 280€, DB62: 320€, DB62REF: 530€ Reviewer: Lucio Cadeddu - TNT Italy Reviewed: November, 2020 Foreword The first Debut series (say, 1.0) of loudspeakers, by world renowned designer Andrew Jones (here an interesting interview at Sound & Vision) caused a stir in the HiFi ...

Product name: Habotest HT107D - socket tester and voltmeter Manufacturer: Habotest - China Cost: ±15$/€ Reviewer: Lucio Cadeddu - TNT Italy Reviewed: February, 2022 Foreword Any audiophile worth his weight in exotic mains plugs and cords knows that electricity plays a key role in HiFi system performance. There are many things that can go wrong: insufficient or excessive voltage, reversed ...

Supra Ply 3.4 S speakers cable The Sonic Shield [Italian version] Product: speakers cable Supra Ply 3.4 S Manufacturer: Supra/Jenving - Sweden Approx. price: 20 $ per meter (may vary from Country to Country) Supra from Sweden became famous for introducing the first HiFi-oriented loudspeakers cables back in 1976, that is more than 20 years ago. Since then the research in cable technology has ...

An article to celebrate an eclectic man and HiFi design, a genius and a true legend, James Bongiorno. An article written by L. Cadeddu on TNT-Audio - www.tnt-audio.com

Vincent SP-331MK Hybrid power amplifier [Italian version] Product: Vincent SP-331MK power amp Manufacturer: Vincent - Germany Cost: 1300 Euro (YMMV) Reviewer: Maarten van Casteren - TNT UK Reviewed: June 2008 Introduction I have always wondered what a real muscle amp would sound like in my system, even before Musical Fidelity started telling us that we need hundreds of watts to produce decent ...

The SE84B Zen Triode is one of the lowest priced, new manufacture, single-ended triode (SET) amplifiers on the market. While the SE84B is an inexpensive amplifier, it is anything but cheap. The quality of components and construction are exemplary. This amplifier appears to have two primary design ...

Product: Indiana Line Nota 550X - floorstanding loudspeakers Manufacturer: Indiana Line - Italy/Poland Approx. price: 400-500€/pair Reviewer: Lucio Cadeddu - TNT Italy Reviewed: January, 2023 Indiana Line is an Italian company, established in 1977, which started operations as Selectra (then Alcor) by assembling in Italy US-made Utah loudspeakers. When Utah closed production, Indiana Line ...

ESS Heil Air Motion Transformer Pleats for my tweets, Heils come in handy! [Italian version] Product: Heil Air Motion Transformer tweeter Manufacturer: ESS - USA Approx. price: ebay? € (YMMV) Availability: official distributors, online stores, Ebay, Craiglist and other auctions Reviewer: Mark Wheeler - TNT UK Reviewed: May, 2011 Introduction The oft described (especially among women's ...