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Pleased to report that the ukhhsoc public website is now being produced.

The society currently has a collection of thousands of files relating to
various hifi products, makers, etc. So far as possible within limitations
of copyright the aim is to make these openly available via a web archive.

http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html

The above page is the address which people can use to access the items made
public so far. Note that this process has only just started. So as yet only
a small fraction of the items are available at present. Others will be
added. But I thought people might be interested in knowing what's going on
and check out the sort of items that will become available. :-)

FWIW I'm currently adding some items per manufacturer in an alphabetical
order to give the widest possible coverage first. I'll then go back and
expand the number of items for marques where we have a lot more items. The
current full collection is well over 3,000 items. But it will take a while
to get those put up in an organised and easily accessible arrangement.

There is also now a short info page on ukhhsoc at

http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/

Again, this will be epanded later on. But for now I'm trying to give adding
documents priority.

At some point 'feature' pages should also appear that deal with various
topics from the history of uk hi-fi.

Jim

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Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:

The society currently has a collection of thousands of files relating to
various hifi products, makers, etc. So far as possible within
limitations of copyright the aim is to make these openly available via a
web archive.

http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html

Just to say that I've got to 'QUAD' in the alphabet. However when doing
examples for that section I realised that some previous pages may have some
items unlinked due to a bug in the autobuilding routine. I've fixed the bug
and I'll now check back though the previous makes to ensure every item is
linked OK before adding new material.

I've also added some 'other' examples. i.e. ones not for a specific make.
The examples I've started with are 'show guides' for the
London/International shows in 1958 and 1959. These have info on all the
makes at the show. Big files, quite informative.

More will be added as time passes and my 'round tuits' arrive. :-)

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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I've now completed my 'first pass' though adding items to the collection at

http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html

The pages now offer over 1,700 items (about 1.1GB).

I will add more as and when I get a chance. I have a similar amount of
further material that is scanned and ready. Plus a lot of unscanned items.

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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I've been adding a fair bit of material to the ukhhsoc 'AudioDocs'
collection. Most recently I've been adding items on Radford and J. E.
Sugden.

People interested in power amplifier design may be particularly interested
in some items I added this morning. These are scans of a copy of the
notes/manuscript that Jim Sugden wrote and which appeared in 1970 as a
'Home Construction' design for a Class-A amplifier in Hi Fi News.

You can find these at

http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/ma...Amp/index.html

I was sent xeroxes by the JES company about a decade ago when I was writing
an article on Jim Sugden and Class-A. Jim Sugden has now given me
permission to make these scans available. The details differ from what
appeared in the magazine, so they make an interesting read. The only snag
is that the xeroxes aren't very clear. But the scans are readable.

I'll continue to add more items. At present the collection comes to well
over 1.5 GB worth, and I have lots more to add as 'round tuits' permit. :-)

If anyone has any printed documents - service / user manuals, circuit
diagrams, leaflets, etc, they'd be happy to loan/donate/scan, please let me
know. Note that I do still have many items which haven't yet appeared in
public. The main 'gaps' tend to be indicated by marques which are still
unlisted on http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html because that
usually indicates I have few or no documents they produced. But if unsure,
please ask! :-)

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:37:04 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

I've been adding a fair bit of material to the ukhhsoc 'AudioDocs'
collection. Most recently I've been adding items on Radford and J. E.
Sugden.



I don't know if this is of any interest, Jim:
http://kef.com/uploads/files/en/muse...ngineers_r.pdf

I owned a pair of Calinda speakers for a while. They were rather too
bulky for my little house though and I had to eventually (and rather
reluctantly) sell them. They also needed a few watts to wake them up -
something that they also did to the neighbours in my terraced house. :)

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In article om, mick
wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:37:04 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

I've been adding a fair bit of material to the ukhhsoc 'AudioDocs'
collection. Most recently I've been adding items on Radford and J. E.
Sugden.



I don't know if this is of any interest, Jim:
http://kef.com/uploads/files/en/muse...ngineers_r.pdf

Yes, it is. :-) Thanks!

The questions I have in mind now is if we could use the content as part of
the public ukhhsoc AudioDocs collection. We can certainly take a copy to
preserve, although wherever possible historians will want a printed
'original' copy if they are still available.

I've been contacting various companies, so guess KEF should also be
contacted. Just not got to them yet! Time to try...

I owned a pair of Calinda speakers for a while. They were rather too
bulky for my little house though and I had to eventually (and rather
reluctantly) sell them. They also needed a few watts to wake them up -
something that they also did to the neighbours in my terraced house. :)

Armstrong often used to use KEF speakers for demos and shows. They also
sometimes used our amps.

BTW I've been adding more Radford, JES, and Armstrong items to the ukhhsoc
AudioDocs. I've also finally got around to doing a sensible main page and
'upload / contact us' page, and linked things together. Plus set up a
ukhhsoc specific email address.

The main page is now at http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/

The content is now over 2,500 files (over 2GB) and growing at a pace set by
how much time and energy I have. :-) Still lots to add.

Cheers,

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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Just to let people know that material has continued to be added to the
ukhhsoc Audio Documents collection. In recent weeks this has mainly been to
the Radford and QUAD sections, but some items on other makers have also
been added.

As before, you can access the top-level index at
http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html

We are still collecting and adding material. :-)

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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Jim Lesurf wrote:


Just to let people know that material has continued to be added to the
ukhhsoc Audio Documents collection. In recent weeks this has mainly been to
the Radford and QUAD sections, but some items on other makers have also
been added.

As before, you can access the top-level index at
http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html




** Do you have a date for the "High Fidelity" review of the Quad ESL57 ?




..... Phil

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On 28/10/2016 04:55, Phil Allison wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:


Just to let people know that material has continued to be added to the
ukhhsoc Audio Documents collection. In recent weeks this has mainly been to
the Radford and QUAD sections, but some items on other makers have also
been added.

As before, you can access the top-level index at
http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html




** Do you have a date for the "High Fidelity" review of the Quad ESL57 ?

Try here if you like looking for a stylus in a haystack.
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...y-Magazine.htm

July 1959 p93 has a review saying that the ESL had just started to be imported.

There's an index in each December edition, which might help.

--
Eiron.

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In article , Phil
Allison wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:


Just to let people know that material has continued to be added to the
ukhhsoc Audio Documents collection. In recent weeks this has mainly
been to the Radford and QUAD sections, but some items on other makers
have also been added.

As before, you can access the top-level index at
http://www.torrens.org.uk/ukhhsoc/AudioDocs.html




** Do you have a date for the "High Fidelity" review of the Quad ESL57 ?

Sorry. Afraid not, at present. So far I've only scanned the publicity
reprint as seen.

Currently, my main focus is on trying to scan and put up more of the many
documents I still have 'in the queue' so people can access them. But once
they are mostly done the intent is to add missing details like this. For
that, my current plan is to do as "Eiron" has suggested, unless someone can
direct me to a reference for the date.

Similarly, many of the leaflets, catalogues, etc, have no explicit date on
them. So some detective work will be needed at some point to work out their
relevant dates. But I'm hoping that the more items we make available, the
more chances there are for people to be able to look at this and join in
helping to put the pieces of the 'jigsaws' together! :-)

Jim

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Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html