"Keith G" wrote in message
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Those of you with a predilection for copious amounts of glass and iron in
your amplifiers go scrute this site thoroughly:

http://www.sacthailand.com/


See the fabulous range of choice - 300Bs and 2A3s in particular and tell
me there's no demand for these seriously *broken* amps....???


Then see the 'Swing 32' and 'Swing 40' speakers and tell me they *ain't*
Jerichos:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/fostexfe206e/fostex.htm

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/L1070577.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/L1070580.JPG

:-)

(Serious valve freaks note the Ulyanov GM-70s, btw....)

And finally, just for a laff, make your way to the Kiwame resistor page
and clock the nice Fluke Multimeter and tell me it ain't *identical*
(apart from the yellow case) from my trusty old Maplins Pro4 meter:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Meter.JPG

:-)


Keith, congratulations:- An audio-relevant post on this ng.......

I don't think anyone has suggested there isn't a demand for these types of
amps, but then these things go in fashions. It certains avoids the
manufacturer having to worry that their products will meet tight
specs........

One oddity I've noticed. On the SILK attenuator pages, they say of
conventional resistor attenuators "That's why at high attenuation level (low
signal out, low listening level) the bandwidth of such volume control is
very poor and the bandwidth is not constant over any switch position."

This is only relevant if using very long high-capacitance cables. If using
cables of normal capacitance, and of normal domestic lengths, it has no
relevance as the bandwidth is already well in excess of the audio bandwidth.
Although I think a multi-tapped transformer as an attenuator is a bit of
overkill, it is a theoretically sound solution as the output impedance will
reduce as the attenuation increases. Pity they couldn't have 23 separate
secondaries, and keep the whole thing balanced input to output. Now that
*would* have given them a winding challenge!


They are AudioNote distributors..... nuff said....

As to the Maplins meter, there is a whole raft of Chinese OEM product
available for badging. I can't see why Fluke shouldn't do it like Maplins.
Going back a few years, before China became the manufacturing centre of the
World, thre was a magazine called JEI, the journal of the Japanese
Electronics Industry. In there you could find almost anything you wanted to
badge, provided you bought enough of them. I was particularly amused to see
several of the pick-up arms and cartridges sold by turntable manufacturers
as their standard product in the JEI.

Anyway, the SAC stuff looks nice, and if you like that sort of thing, I'm
sure it will give pleasure.

S.