12 months since I last posted on this thread. Have just increased the capacitance in the power supply feeding the output stage by adding 6800uF in parallel with the existing slit-foil, 10000uF. So now we have 16800uF of storage per phase on the power stages, plus 6800uF per phase on the input and dr...

Beggars Opera - Mrs Caligari's Lighter (2012) followed by Get Your Dog Off Me! (1973)

Far out man.

I like to think that Bowie read that Diamond Dogs review in "Audio," turned into a soul boy, hooked up with Nile Rogers and his mates and came out with "Young Americans" and "Station To Station."

It’s interesting to me that I can remember virtually word for word, parts of some of the record reviews in “Audio” magazine. No other hi-fi magazine since has had as much positive impact on my own philosophies about the hobby. This unlike the thoroughly negative impact from the 80s subjective mags, ...

In my mid teenage years around 1973/74, I used to read a few mags. My favourite was “Audio” which was run by a guy named Carl Anthony. These mags were about the equipment. The music was dealt with in the record review section of the magazine. I think these mags were far more honest about what they d...

Stomu Yamash’ta - Freedom Is Frightening.

My ultimate speakers Gimme some!

Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken

“The Golden Torch Story Revisited” - Various Artists. Bloody hell…a right Northern soul day today. No spins or backdrops though; it’d be a sure-fire way of visiting the A&E at my age. :lol: Going to have to listen to some prog later this evening for a wind down. Maybe a dose of “The Land of Grey...

A fab CD celebrating the famous (in soul circles) mod club in Stoke-on-Trent, which went on to become a seminal Northern Soul all-nighter venue in the early 70s: IMG_1040.jpeg The missus and me have been dancing around the kitchen, having a right laugh with this CD. Feck, sound quality, feck hi-fi! ...