Why don't you want to try to use your hi-fi knowledge to make a living. You've asked this many times, but in truth I'd begun to lose interest when I could afford to do something about it and was mortified at the humungous swing to AV systems in the early noughties. A shame for me as eBay prices on ...

I find it can be, but it's hugely enjoyable

I'm a humble TA at a local primary school. Exhausting, but loads of potential for me as a person I've found.

82 to 98, then involved with Dave E and Steve W from 98 to 2004 (part time when I left), moving to Suffolk in the August.

For me, Dean Altos were everything I dislike about Martin Colloms as a speaker designer when up against a coloured main driver/cabinet combo. Just raise the tweeter up a bit to draw attention away from the faults in the mid. He did this with some bigger MA's he designed in the 70's, the Deans and al...

I was at KJ Watford from 1974 to 1977 and in W1 Wigmore St until end of 1981. John Read (the 'J' of KJ) sold the W1 business to Steve Wilcox and David Eudale (Listen Inn Northampton) in 1998. The two main staff at KJ jumped ship and started up Walrus Systems shortly after and I understand there is a...

All the people like DSJR now coming out of the woodwork and saying yes it was bad and we see it now and yet at the time I was treated as a nutter and insulted in the shops these people worked in. I understand your justified anger issue here, but our slight acquaintance predates this by several year...

Seeing as I worked for one of the top three UK Linn/Naim dealers for many years, I suppose I never saw the 'other side..' It was only when the major dealer purge happened in the early 90's that we saw some of this. B&O had also issued dealer database contracts shortly before and what surprised m...

Not sure about these lower cost items though Andrew. Products like the Incatech and Onix were enthusiastically stocked and sold by Naim people I remember. Maybe they cost too much to make for their retail prices? Nytech was good once the early reliability issues in the receiver were tamed. The integ...

The Creek 4040 and 4140 were big sellers for us and we welcomed it as the first amp at that price to finally compete with and eventually better, the NAD 3020, which was running out of steam by this time after a couple of years. The A&R A60 was another great old classic, but price was becoming ag...