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Many of you will be familiar with the process of insulating your copper capacitors to remove any potential risk of shorting. Using large heat-shrink makes this process much easier. Simply cut a piece 10% longer than the capacitor, this will allow the ends to roll over the end of the cap neatly, as in the image. Heat-Shrink can also be used to insulate stepped attenuators and selector switches (…
HiFi Collective are pleased to announce we will soon be taking delivery of 3 new ranges from Arizona Capacitors:  Arizona Capacitors Blue Cactus - Mylar/ Paper/Oil/Aluminium Foil C50309 - available in 0.022, 0.047, 0.1, 0.22, 0.33 and 0.47uF 600V 10% tolerance.  Arizona Capacitors Red Cactus -Paper/ Oil/Aluminium Foil C85805 - available in 0.1 and 0.22uF 600V 10% tolerance…
Talk about David and Goliath? These bookshelves from Q Acoustics have created quite a stir – winning every award up for grabs. We auditioned them for a colleagues second system, and they are very impressive. Has anyone got some? Heard some? Upgraded some? Email us: info@hificollective.co.uk We are thinking a re-wire and external crossover, just to see how much you can squeeze out of them.  
We have been busy over the past few months working on a MKII version of our TVC pre-amp. We have sourced new transformers that initial listening tests lead us to believe are even better than the originals, and all the internal wiring will be the ever-popular Jupiter copper in cotton sleeving. For those people who have an old version (with a stepped attenuator) is is possible to upgrade to TVC's…
Following on from the success of Jantzen Audio products, we have launched a speaker cable kit using their solid core copper cables and gold plated twin-screw banana plugs. This kit is very easy to assemble with no soldering required. There is a strong following for the idea that solder-less connections are better for the overall performance of the finished cable... For more information on this…
We have added a few new values of both Duelund lines of Resistors. Additionally by investing in large quantities of stock, HiFi Collective are pleased announce we are reducing the prices of both the Duelund resistor and Duelund Cast resistor ranges. The Duelund Standard Graphite Silver resistors have been reduced from £18.50 to £13.00 - for more information please click HERE The Duelund CAST…
Audio Note have extended their range of superb Electrolytic and Kaisei capacitors to include the following values... Following values are now in stock: 220uF 100V Kaisei Non-Polar 470uF 25V Kaisei 470uF 25V Kaisei Non-Polar 1000uF 25V Standard Electrolytic 4700uF 16V Kaisei 4700uF 16V Kaisei Non-Polar To buy now, please click HERE These values will be in stock in late March: 220uF 160V…
We are now stocking the following development tools for those budding speaker designers out there: 1384653: Intertechnik Multiresist, 0.1R to 100R - This board houses 39 Intertechnik 10W ceramic resistors of differing values. Please click HERE for more information on this product. 1384652: Intertechnik Multicap 0.1uF to 100uF - A large muilti-tapped capacitor, centrally located, which has 26…
We have added two new gauge wires to the superb neotech solid core and multistrand silver wire ranges. STDST-20: Neotech Multistrand Silver Wire, 7/0.32mm - Please click HERE for more information on this product SOST-22: Neotech Solid Silver Wire, 1/0.65mm - Please click HERE for more information on this product
As a result of our recent aquisition of Audiocap and all stock, HiFi Collective are now stocking Sprague Barr Electronics Orange Drop capacitors. They design and manufacture some of the most reliable film capacitors available today. The 715P series are constructed of polypropylene film, single section, non-inductively wound with extended foils. For more information on the 715P series please…