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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…
This week we had a customer leave an instagram review of a capacitor test they created, for some amazing photos of an array of hifi's from start to finish, check out jaudioresearch's instagram  PAGE Accompanying the pictures P.T. wrote: "I'm guessing this test isn't much about duelund or Mundorf sio,...everyone knows they are amazing.Miflex is the new cap on the block and it's OK on its own...…
I was introduced to Miflex capacitors over a year ago by a customer of ours - the finders fee was a couple of free samples for him, hand selected from the first batch, many thanks PT... Since then we haven't looked back. We started with their copper foil paper / polypropylene in oil (KPCU) and their aluminium foil paper / polypropylene in oil (KPAL). They have been well received and we have had…
Here at Hificollective we always welcome requests for products that are not standard. So following on from the stereo Glasshouse Seiden / Charcroft ladder stepped attenuator over 3 years we were recently asked to build up a pair of 100K mono versions. No problem - let's warm up the soldering iron! To those of you unfamiliar with stepped attenuators, they are generally used to replace…
    Over a year ago, we had a client ask for some advice on their ‘replacement parts’ proposals for an Audio Research Reference 1 pre-amp. Six months since the last parts were ordered, here’s P.B. talking us through what he’s changed and the result!   "Power Supply Stage:   1)  2 x sets of ‘industry-standard’ diodes replaced with 8 x UF4006 ultrafast or 12 x Shottky 8QT-100  2) 15 x…