After a few months of close collaboration between EVGA and Audio Note's chief designer, Andy Grove has created the amazing Nu Audio sound card. Opening up the World of hi-end audio to your PC. With the various streaming platforms available more music lovers are turning to their PCs for playback...
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After working with Dalby Audio Design for years, providing various cables and sleeves, the fruits of his hours of research and listening have paid off in the form of his amazing silver / copper multistrand double wrapped in silk. There are 2 versions available, the thinner 20 strand of 0.32mm...
Full range drivers seem to be the hot thing at the moment, with the recent addition of the Cude Audio driver showing just how wonderful this breed of speaker can sound. You might be paying a bit more for these driver units but you do not need to invest in the crossover parts and the simplicity of...
You may recall some years ago that Hi-Fi Collective bought up all the capacitor stock from Audio Cap Ltd, Stevenage, UK when Matthew decided to call it a day. Part of the stock were the Le Clanche Signal Path metallized polypropylene / tin foil caps. We had numerous values in various tolerances....
Over the past few years we have noticed a steady increase in demand for off reel mains cables for those who like to make up their own cables. Those looking to start out in the wonderful World of DIY cable building often reach for the lower cost mains cables like the Belden 19364 or the Lapp classic...
ETI Research, Australia has a whole raft of goodies coming out this year. To start the ball rolling we have the all-new FS-08 silver RCA socket. Dimensionally similar to their popular copper/gold plate FC-TC07, the FS-08 offers pure silver signal contacts, a low mass body, polymer thread to ensure...
Over the years starting from the very first Audio Note amplifier and pre-amplifier kits back in the 90s, their stock mains transformers have been incredibly popular. Ideally suited to the home constructor making up a valve pre-amplifier or phono stage due to the versatility of the secondary...
The benefits in overall sound reproduction when using a good audio grade mains cable can be night and day. The Neotech range of mains cables are proving incredibly popular and we have now added the NEP-3001 MKIII. A heavy duty hybrid design whose 10 AWG conductors are made up of multistranded...
Psvane have long been regarded as the best Chinese made valves. Hi-fi Collective have been stocking them for some time and Audio Note uses them in the container full for their finished product. So there is no surprise to learn that Audio Note and Psvane have collaborated to create the amazing...
Elekit is an established kit maker from Japan with many years experience in producing incredible kits. Our first bulk purchase was their top of the range stereo 300B single-ended amplifier kit. Having heard many great things about their product we decided to make up one. Watch out for the Youtube...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Hi-fi Collective team. We would like to extend a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all our customers and their families. We would like to express our thanks to you for your loyal support and custom during 2018. The ever-growing Hi-fi...
To add to the expansive range of Duelund wires and foils we have their new DCA AC0.4 AWG 26, 0.4mm diameter, pure silver single strand sheathed in cotton impregnated in oil insulation. Perfect for signal wiring, interconnects etc... To read more about it see https://www.hificollective.co.uk/wire...
Featuring the Duelund Precision woofer and tweeter, the clever chaps at humblehomemadehifi.com have create a fabulous stand mount 2 way speaker kit. Utilising the innovative designs from Duelund we have heard some great things from builders. To read the instructions click https://hfc-fs.s3-eu-...
After a few weeks wait we are proud to announce we now have the new Super Stealth RealityCap film capacitors from TRT, USA. We are the first DIY component seller to carry these amazing caps. The line up is a big step up from the original and incredibly popular StealthCaps, featuring...
NEW kit from Glasshouse to celebrate the arrival of Duelund`s DCA12GA 600Vdc cable. We have created a solderless mains cable kit available in 4 lengths, 0.75m, 1m, 1.5m and 2m, also we can build it up for you if desired for a £35.00 + VAT fee. This is the perfect start up kit for...
Following the great success of their tinned copper wire, Duelund are tin plating everything to amazing effect. We now have the first batch of CAST 100V capacitors for loudspeaker crossovers in stock see https://www.hificollective.co.uk/components/duelund-cast-tinned-copper-100v.html Also we have...
