In order to hear the softer passages of classical music this viewer has to turn up the level of his system beyond what makes sense for when things get loud.

With the advent of the Loudness Wars it seems practical to ask for a standard minimum dynamic range for recordings to get us back to where we’d like to be.

Is the best crossover for a loudspeaker a single pole, single capacitor for the tweeter? This viewer has heard he should rip out the guts of his 2-way speaker pair and get out the soldering iron.

This viewer is a bass instrument musician and he finds it difficult to follow the bass line of his instrument on his current setup. Is there anything he can do?

The Infinity IRSV is one of the best loudspeaker systems in the world and, at the same time, one of the most intimidating. How does their crossover work and how does someone actually tune such a system?

Does Total Harmonic Distortion numbers tell us anything about the amount of hiss and noise present in a stereo product?

When subwoofers are concerned does a carpet hamper the output especially if that subwoofer is a down firing style? This viewer believes that the furry protection from the floor will restrict his bass.

We know that potentiometers (volume controls) sound best at their highest levels, so what happens when there’s also a pair of high efficiency speakers connected to that same system?

Stacking stereo equipment runs the risk of interference from magnetic fields. Do chassis effectively keep out those magnetic fields and if so, how do we know which ones do a better job?

We often see low THD figures in specification sheets of hifi equipment but do those numbers have anything to do with hum and hiss in equipment?