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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

R.I.P. Art

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It has been two months since Art left us and Janet reached out to me to help re-home the Step-Up that he was rotating through his system wit...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Doc Hoyer

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Audio lost another of its treasures last week when Dennis R. Hoyer passed away in Milwaukee.  If you had a vintage transformer that neede...
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

SUT Writeup.

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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 ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

New Stuff.

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Sheltering at home has lead to a few new things in the intact arsenal.  First is a low ratio Speakerformer.  These units offer 1dB-6dB of at...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

From the Archives

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The archives in this case being a dust covered cardboard box on a bottom shelf in the far corner of the 'Lab'. The chassis work...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

ERC in the NY Times

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We love to see it when friends get the credit they deserve!  The NY Times did this nice piece  on what Pete Hutchison is doing in London wit...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Shameless Plug.

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I updated the Intact SUT page to better represent the current state of affairs of what is going on inside the Intact and EM/IA MC Step-Ups...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Random Says.....

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this is where it gets crazy,  I just sent a 90 pound shipment to Ngan and the cost was $230 using fedex great rates.  This was nearly dou...
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Thursday, April 2, 2020

FREEkerFormers

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Ok... poor play on words.  I just updated the Speakerformer page with some more fake news on why you need them.  I also added a ...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

The worst resistor ever?

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I wound some 2KΩ copper wire resistors for DHT Rob a few years back and he used them to bias a 10.   He reached back out to me to do ...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Sincere thank you for the write-up, Eddie!

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We also had a lot of fun... glad you could make the trip.... link to article EDIT:  link to photo at Society6 for Iain ...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

For Sale: very early Altec Lansing 604 in "furniture cabinet"

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. as Lisa knows.. I have a problem... I just cannot pass up beautiful and well-built items from the past... I love them... listen to ...
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Monday, January 27, 2020

Hens Teeth.

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We spent the day soldering up some LR Phonos   and took a break to see how the 4304 compares to its daddy.  Alas Pops had what appeared t...
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