Finished 300B Tube Amplifier âŚ
Is it Rabskiâs ?
VB
Doubt it. I thought it looked nice, probably bobbins, but you never know. I was tempted until I saw the postage and you have to add the 25% import duties.
7 - 8 W per channel and quite small things.
Looks nice actually, but doesnât appear to be supplied with tubes. Arenât 300Bs quite spendy?
No, it says itâs finished.
Nobsound version.
I have asked voltage and tubes.
I wonder how stable they are ? Part of the safety standards testing now involves plugging all the leads in, putting the amp on the floor and then tugging the leads (I imagine the directions and forces are specified) and seeing whether the amp tips over. If it does then thereâs some assessment of what hazards might result and kit can fail the test on this basis. For this reason all the sockets are often very low down on tall thin amps. Of course these are Chinese so they donât need a CE mark if the end user is also the importer. But the end user canât legally sell them on without a CE mark.
VB
Meatmenâs bluetooth speakerâŚ
Fuck knows, just need some person to buy a pair and work out if they kill them or not.
By the time they arrive they may not need a CE mark!
Happy days! I look forward to the lowering of safety standards and electrocution of the gammon. 
The people who administer WEEE have no clue whatsoever whatâs happening or at least donât appear to have had any guidance.
You donât think it is happening now? Take a fucking look at eBay or Amazon and see what people are buying from China or India.
Yep, I dismantled an Apple clone phone charger recently, which a friend had bought on Ebay.
Switching regulator straight off the mains pins on the plug. No fuse. No EMC filtering. No consideration to creepage and clearance between primary and secondary and the metal shell of the USB connector was a fraction of a millimetre from the live pin on the plug with no attempt at insulation. Case was made of flimsy thermoplastic and it got hot enough in operation to soften it.
Other than that, it was perfectly safe.
Thatâs right. Itâll be a UKCA one instead. I imagine that the process of âtaking back controlâ will mean that HMG will have to approve any notified bodies who will be able to underpin this mark if manufacturers feel they need that service. I suspect all those bodies will end up being in the UK. Which means they wonât be cheap.
Whatever happens I canât imagine the UK will abandon the IEC standards for consumer electronics.
VB
Donâtcha just love self-certification ! You can always sue the manufacturer if your house burns down. Ha, ha.
VB
And 20x more expensive. 
I think the casework is the best bit of that Chinese horror.