This is a user review of the Mark Levinson No.28 preamplifier. Despite bearing the Mark Levinson name, the design was made after Madrigal had bought out the Levinson brand and design rights. It also explains the change of the model number designation from “ML- xx” to “No. xx”.

Hello, and welcome to the next of my series of reviews of vintage equipment. First, I only write about equipment that I have had extended, direct and personal experience of either as an end-user or retailer – or both. I don’t get involved in measurements. During 34 years of involvement I have heard far too [...]

First, the original ‘desert-storm’ (my phrase) beige and the to me far farmore attractive grey. Back in the 1980s at Subjective Audio, I was a keen if not particularly successful QUAD retailer. I sold sufficient of their electronics, but not too many loudspeakers. I can’t clearly recall how or why this imbalance occurred. What I do recall [...]

Being reminded once again of the Decca ‘magic’ – the Decca Mk. VI cartridge revisited. Having been granted a special exeat from the Alan Dowker Blumlein retirement home for distinguished audio components, the Decca cartridge was allowed out for good behaviour. I was interested in re-visiting the Decca design and the following notes and observations apply [...]

With the recent experience of having to get a Sony 5000 Fw tuner fixed and being able to see it taken apart in front of me has provided me with the first hand knowledge of how the front fascia of a Sony 5130 tuner is held together. The fixing method is very similar to the [...]

In order to give some background to the upcoming tuner comparison review in Adventures in High Fidelity Audio (mentioned here on AIHFA for the first time Link…. http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/category/reviews/vintage-audio-review/ ) Since publishing that preview of the forth coming mega tuner review, I have decided to re-publish in full (with a few revisions) the review that was the [...]

Review Preview. For the last six months I have been gathering as many Japanese Hi-Fi tuners as I can, in order to conduct a large scale comparison of classic Japanese tuners ( so far 20 in total), for future editions of Adventures in High Fidelity Audio and it is my hope to be able to [...]