Steve May is a technology journalist with more than 30 years’ experience, specialising in home audio, home cinema, TV, soundbars and personal audio. He writes for a variety of popular audio websites ...

Unusually for a high-end turntable, Technics has opted for a direct drive motor rather than a belt drive, but great care has been taken to reduce vibration. Technics pioneered the direct drive ...

Here we have not one but two Technics deals that stand out from the rest. One of these stereo amps is a Product of the Year ...

What's the difference between belt-drive and direct-drive turntables? The difference all comes down to what makes the platter spin – that’s the flat bit of your turntable that your record sits on.

The problems and challenges of designing the closed-loop electronic control of a Direct Drive Valve (DDV) actuator system are discussed. Advantages and disadvantages of the DDV concept compared to the ...

The best racing wheels for PC in 2025 will have you hugging the corners, gripping the tarmac, and going faster than ever.

Normally, mechanical devices like record players move smoothly, with well-greased contact surfaces enabling the tone arm to automatically move, the multi-record mechanism to drop down a fresh disc ...

In this paper, a novel direct drive, bilateral planar switched reluctance generator (BPSRG) is developed for 2-D wave energy conversion with a mixed type of flux circulation. The proposed BPSRG has ...

In this study, we present a motor-driven flapping-wing actuator, designed to operate at its resonant frequency using a torsion spring. The wing is driven by a DC motor directly through gear ...