For anyone who is interested, there are a few pix of the inside of one of the new cheap, Chinese amps I have just bought. http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/chinese/chineseamp.htm The second one arrived with a little rattle inside it which gave me the excuse to whip the bottom off! Anyway, I think they are surprisingly good for the price and would be quite satisfied if I had built one...

- vinyl versus CD - analogue versus digital - valves versus ss - DC versus AC - AM versus PM - regionalism versus globalism - pears versus cream - indigo versus amber - jazz versus classical - yoga versus pilates

To avoid any misunderstanding, this post is not about ESL's but Quad's dynamic speakers (21/22L?). A claim was made in another post that these are "much better" than Spendor, Proac, Dynaudio. I was wondering if people strongly agree or disagree with that. I happen to own Spendor BC-1's and occasionally toy with the idea of either a current Spendor or a Proac/Dynaudio model as possible...

Greetings, I know there are a few here who are very well qualified with hifi (and particularly amplifier) electronic design. Can you help? I have an Alchemist Nexus amplifier which, when turned above a certain volume, screeches loudly through the speaker output. I believe that the amp is outputting DC - does that sound right?

Did anybody listen to Performance on 3 just now and hear that clown emit that loud *standout* cough just a few bars before the end of Simon Rattle's Messiaen - Eclairs Sur L'Au-Dela, just as the music subsided into the few closing notes of a superb morendo, following a great climaxial last movement...??? I suppose that it was an obvious bloke was a change - I don't think I've heard a...

Well, it looks like the Cyrus Two has been brought back from the dead. Rather, once I had a look at the Cyrus One schematic, I managed to work out that the blown components were all in the phono circuitry - the regulators mentioned in the previous thread aren't used in the main amp, just for the turntable inputs. Since I don't have a turntable, and never will, I desoldered the diodes for the...

Looking for a JBL DX-1 external low level network crossover. Must have high/low frequency cards and to suit JBL XPL-200 speakers.

Looking for a pair of JBL XPL-200A speakers in mint condition. Preferably in piano black finish and with original stands. Stands not essential. Please send pics and details if you have a pair to sell. Cheers!

The thermionic valve is one hundred years old this week. Happy Birthday d Pearce Consulting http://www.pearce.uk.com

Believe me, we are 100% discrete. We have our interests and you have yours, hopefully, the two will share common ground. On the agreed upon day, YOU (and others) will get a motel room as we like doing this on neutral ground. We ask that you take a shower before we arrive, we like squeaky clean people; we are. Both my wife and I will spend in excess of an hour tending to your cock in order...

So, what's TdP up to these days, in valve power amps? ISTR his power amps were very highly regarded as being able to rival solid state ones when it came to measurements. I remember the 509 MKII and (I think) the 549 being reviewed in Hi-Fi Choice in the late 80s or early 90s. Is he still at it?

Don't know why, but mention valve amps and a few here start foaming at the mouth!! So, I've come up with a Cunning Plan to put and end to all this interminable hoohah - goes like this: "If you don't like valve amps, don't ****ing use them, then....." :-) (How's that - too simple?? Think I should do another one for vinyl.....???

"Clart"??? wind section is: Clt, Bs Clt, Ob, Cor, Flt, Bsn Keith was writing Clart for extra Clarity === Andy Evans === Visit our Website:- http://www.artsandmedia.com Audio, music and health pages and interesting links.

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BTW I'm still open minded about the possibility that vinyl and valves have as-yet undiscovered attributes which distinguish them as superior to digital and SS in some regard, although this is not what *current* scientific knowledge tells us. Designer Lynn Olsen makes a case for valves along these lines http://www.nutshellhifi.com/ contains some interesting reading material === Andy Evans ...

There is a distinct possibility that they're on retainers to valve and vinyl companies in order to PROMOTE sales of their products Calling somebody who is interested in valve equipment a 'cretin' is - as you say - almost guaranteed to make such a person ignore the source of the 'advice' .. === Andy Evans === Visit our Website:- http://www.artsandmedia.com Audio, music and health pages and...

It's a truism that a goodly proportion of musicians aren't overly fussed about hifi, or indeed, the polishing (mastering) of their creative output. This isn't wrong, but it could do with some elaboration. Musicians are extremely sensitive to sound, so it should not be thought that 'sound doesn't matter to them' - that would be quite wrong. They may have less need to hear music played back for a...

http://www.milbert.com/ "Tubes Vs. Transistors - Is There An Audible Difference?" I don't want to rerun the old "valve versus transistor" arguments, but this caught my eye as it is from the point of view of a recording engineer. Apologies to those of you who have seen it before. --

Me mate Shiny Nigel wuz up again tonight and tells me that, in the shop he works in (St Neots), sales of turntables currently beats sales of all CDPs, Cassette Decks and MD Recorders combined....!! (In fairness, I would say that they almost certainly sell more AV gear than 'hifi' these days.) - Could have posted this in ukrav, but I'm sure no-one there needs telling.... ;-)

I have a Rotel RSP1066 pre/pro with RB 985mk2 multi channel power amp driving recently purchased (and quite brilliant) Dynaudio Contour 1.3mk2 main speakers. I also have Dynaudio 42 surrounds and centre. In terms of fidelity, it's only music that interests me, movies are not really my thing. I have a handful of SACD/DVDA discs but the best part of 1000 stereo CDS and I have to say I really...