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  Here we have another detailed write up from R.T. about the Elekit TU8600 kit. In his own words:   "Before I write a few words regarding my TU8600 build I must first say a massive thank you to Victor Kung @ vkmusic.ca. Victors passion, knowledge and commitment to making my purchase of this kit as straight forward and as pleasant an experience as he possibly could went way beyond anything I…
  Part 2 of Gábor Horváths upgrade story comes today with the tube line preamp he's worked on. In G.H.s own words:     "I found a nice tube line preamp designed by Giorgio Pozzoli. It uses 2 pcs E88CC (6922), 1 per channel. Volume potentiometer is situated at the output instead of the input. I like this because the signal to noise ratio is constant at any volume.   I made 4 pcs up till now…
The next few blog posts come from Hungary, sent in by Gábor Horváth. Watch this space as over the next few weeks we'll be showing a few more of G.H.'s projects, starting with his speaker upgrades. In his own words: "It is DF3-160 kit with D21, D54 and 30W54 speakers. I applied the original Heybrook HB3 stand to raise the loudspeaker to the proper position. I really like them. I put a Fostex…
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...…