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Part 2 of Gábor Horváths upgrade story comes today with the tube line preamp he's worked on. In G.H.s own words:
"I found a nice tube line preamp designed by Giorgio Pozzoli.
It uses 2 pcs E88CC (6922), 1 per channel. Volume potentiometer is situated at the output instead of the input. I like this because the signal to noise ratio is constant at any volume.
I made 4 pcs up till now…
The next few blog posts come from Hungary, sent in by Gábor Horváth.
Watch this space as over the next few weeks we'll be showing a few more of G.H.'s projects, starting with his speaker upgrades. In his own words:
"It is DF3-160 kit with D21, D54 and 30W54 speakers.
I applied the original Heybrook HB3 stand to raise the loudspeaker to the proper position.
I really like them. I put a Fostex…
Following our visit to the Warsaw 2018 Audio Video Show, we came across a demonstration room featuring Cube Audio Nenuphar Loudspeakers. My head was turned. I have never heard full range drivers sound so good. Being high efficiency they suited valve amplifiers.
So I set to work and after a lengthy conversation with Grzegorz Rulka we secured the distribution on not only their incredibly…
Here we have some photos from a customers Lenco Record Player; in use currently is a Lyra Delos cart on the AudioMods arm, although he has a SME M2 12R arm as well with either a SPU or AudioMods cart fitted.
The tone arm wire is from yours truely, the Audio Note Litz in a silk sleeve.
Thanks to K.S. for sending in the beautiful photos, glad we could have been of assistance, and as…
One of our customers has sent in a write-up of his journey modding an ANK EL34 Level 4 C-Core amplifier, from initial build through to its current state, along with images of the different build stages!
With no further ado, heres R.T.'s words on the process:
"Ok. Off the bat let me say my journey with this amplifier has at times been a rocky one. Don’t get me wrong I love this amp, it’s been…
Following the launch of The Duelund Precision woofer see https://www.hificollective.co.uk/components/duelund-8-inch-precision-audio-driver.html
Humble Home Made Hi-Fi have developed a loudspeaker speaker kit featuring their woofer and the Duelund Precision 1 inch dome tweeter. The tweeter willbe available at the end of next month. All design specifications are listed here for this amazing…
A customer, RT, build a burn in circuit using bits and bobs he had lying around, here's what he said:
"Further to our conversation regarding a capacitor burn in circuit please find enclosed a few pics of a circuit I've put together. Still in testing hence the Mundorf sitting in there.
I decided to wire the caps in parallel as opposed to series as outlined in the original circuit we…
We recently had a client purchase some of the ABS Expandable Sleeving cable sheilding, and to our delight he had a very similiar reaction to ours when we first tested it out!
G.S. wrote:
"Just a quick note to say I received the cables, listening right now
and I'm BLOWN AWAY guys!
Have to say that when I got the parcel I was struck with strong buyers
remorse cause I was inclined to think that…
This week we had a customer leave an instagram review of a capacitor test they created, for some amazing photos of an array of hifi's from start to finish, check out jaudioresearch's instagram PAGE
Accompanying the pictures P.T. wrote:
"I'm guessing this test isn't much about duelund or Mundorf sio,...everyone knows they are amazing.Miflex is the new cap on the block and it's OK on its own...…
I was introduced to Miflex capacitors over a year ago by a customer of ours - the finders fee was a couple of free samples for him, hand selected from the first batch, many thanks PT...
Since then we haven't looked back. We started with their copper foil paper / polypropylene in oil (KPCU) and their aluminium foil paper / polypropylene in oil (KPAL). They have been well received and we have had…