By Marco Caponera and Giuliano Nicoletti

By Marco Caponera

By Igor Zamberlann

As I was saying in the preview, the PS Audio HCA-2 power amp is a sort of premiere down here, being the first amp sporting a digital technology power stage to be actively marketed in the audiophile market sector. The so-called class D amps, one of the hot arguments in the audio field, have some very interesting features, mostly in terms of efficiency and compactness. I have seen, in a consumer audio supermarket-like shop, an impressive Sony system, packing a DVD player and a 5-channel, 60W amp in a compact CD player-sized case.

 

By Igor Zamberlan

It's a war, isn't it?

I was researching the history of the two "contenders" inception some days ago. What amazes now, looking back, is the fact that, in 1999, on the eve of the European launch of the formats (better, on the eve of the tentative launch date) SACD perspective seemed to be a dim one.

By Giovanni Aste

 

Lots of words have been spent by now in the hi-fi world about the fatal effects of jitter on the sound of our beloved CD players. I'll try to resume the matter in VERY plain and concise words, the more expert among you are begged to forgive me. Any CD Player picks up the data from the disc according to its internal clock.

By Giovanni Aste and Bebo Moroni

 

 

Byi Bebo Moroni

 

I must admit that, when about one year ago the rumor spread of this very peculiar turntable mat, I thought it was one of the many mountebank exercises of a market that, relying on an apparently unlimited trust by its public, has been producing quite a lot of swindles along the last twenty years.

 

By Fabio Cottatellucci

 

By Giovanni Aste

 

Neutral cable is a small enterprise, started recently by a fellow audiophile. I know the man behind Neutral Cable since long, and this made me wonder about the opportunity of this review, since someone might think there's something not fair behind it.