Tír Na HiFi

there is a russian man living near london called alex nikitin he trades under a company name called ant audio he makes battery powered phono stages and sells kits for diy phono stage also . the engineer in enniskillen that i mention called rodney hanna made a phono stage which outperformed tricord d...

there is a engineer in england called paul hynes designs he made an excellent pre amp if you can find one 2nd hand
maybe the rothwell attenuator would keep you happy .i gave one to noel cloney and i think he still uses it

there is a hifi shop in enniskillen called ardhowen audio he has the benz cartridges

hi you can see the german tonearm maker thomas schick on youtube taking apart a denon 103 and putting on one of the wooden bodies on it i think the r in 103 r meens rubber i could be wrong
there should be a few of these about 2nd hand

i was really impressed by those tiny systeym audio bookshelf speaker and in a ordinary room another mini speaker that comes up 2nd hand are triangle titus for £100 to£130 pounds and i saw a set of reference 3a dulcet piano black finish not sold for £900 these are all bookshelf also i have a couple o...

hi perse the engineer i was mentioning in enniskillen rodney hanna has a mono block set of lumley amps similar to your own with 8 6550 output valves per amp there is a mains transformer away in one i will have to try to take some photographs for the forum members to compare put them up on your tread...

perse telephone rodney hanna in enniskillen he trades under hanna electrical cross st enniskillen -he works at this sort of thing all the time -and if you arange something with him i have a friend near carrickmacross you can leave with him and i can bring them to rodney -i owe you a favour

there is another company called the missing link who do a great range of silver plated items for the diy minded -they also do a silver plating service say if you had a wattgate iec 320 plug they can get it silver plated some of you cleaver forum members could get the link up

it is really nice to see all the diffarent record players. the turntable plinth maker -russ collinson made some of the palmer plinths- a friend told me today that david campbell of kronos hifi has brought out his own turntable maybe someone could bring up the link at the munich high end hifi show ma...

sligolad has nucleor power i have 2 watts per channel type 45 amp and 4 watts per channel 6a3 amp -it will be interesting for me to see both ends of the valve amplifier world