Many mistakes can be made during the building and setting up a hi-fi system, whether it is as minor as placing speakers too far apart or as calamitous as knocking them over and denting their tweeter – ...

Under fortuitous conditions, systems may be acceptably quiet in spite of poor techniques. But physics will ultimately rule and noises may appear for no apparent reason! Once we understand how earthing ...

While we like the idea of plug-and-play set-ups as much as anyone, there’s more to getting the best out of stereo amplifiers than simply powering them up on a hi-fi rack, plugging in speakers and ...