Blog
This week we have a write up from A.C. about upgrading cables with cotton sleeving:
"I made a pair of silver foil speaker cables using your cotton sleeving, and the sound is astonishing! I expected an improvement in the treble and detail compared to the old copper foil cables but I was pleasantly surprised by the transformational change in sound.
The instrument placement seems much…
Here we have another detailed write up from R.T. about the Elekit TU8600 kit. In his own words:
"Before I write a few words regarding my TU8600 build I must first say a massive thank you to Victor Kung @ vkmusic.ca. Victors passion, knowledge and commitment to making my purchase of this kit as straight forward and as pleasant an experience as he possibly could went way beyond anything I…
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…