hifi heroin

 Not many thinks kicking around lately that need new homes but these might appeal to a few of you. A customer needed some naked speakerforme...

  THERE! I said it, and I have been trying to say it for years.  Now I am going to use my junkie pulpit to try to explain it in simple terms...

Audio lost another of its treasures last week when Dennis R. Hoyer passed away in Milwaukee.  If you had a vintage transformer that neede...

I figured it was time to jot down some ideas on how step-up transformers are best applied to MC cartridges.  Hopefully the info at the link ...

Back in my younger days in Milwaukee I used to hang out with Arthur Fonzarelli drinking Shotz beer talking about music and all of the cool t...

In keeping with the "Bomb" theme here is something I have been playing with.  It is a Step up device based on the Nelson Pass Zen ...

Pictured below are 14 pieces of lovingly hand crafted nickel for an all out design of a microphone preamp by our good friend Peter in Berli...

Just finished these up for a GM70 amp Jeffrey is building for a customer.  They are wound with 0.9999 pure silver wire on big nanocrystallin...

These just came out of the oven both for Choke Input power supplies. The bigger one is on an amorphous core and weighs in at 14 pounds...

I just recently had a customer ask for a single SUT to match three different cartridges with a range of internal impedances from 1.5 to 15 o...

Hey... where have jeffrey and dave been???  Well the answer to that is busy.  To add at least a little content to this miniscule corner of t...

The old "Big Amorphous" cores have been downsized.  They were perfect for a 10W from a 300B or a 75TL but the requests for 20W at ...

This is a circa 1990 Alessa Vaic copy of a Marconi R-type and it has that beautiful round plate structure we have grown to love. U...

What are all of those secondary wires coming out of that amorphous GM-70 output for?? 75TL thrown in for size I have made...