SOYS: State Of Your System

There are strong rumours he has semi retired and only now builds for existing clients.
I have got an auto former he built for me after waiting 18 months, but haven’t got round to using it yet.
His iron has a really good reputation, and I would like to use more of it, but from my experience the Intact ones are easier to source and are v good.

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I ordered a pair of autoformers from him about a month ago still no sign of them told me it would be 2 weeks as you say a bit slow.Think he has as you say semi retired.

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Actually plugged in a hifi.

Topping D30 (running off a laptop fed via LMS)
Whammy
15 watt mini Aleph
Katt Kistas.

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Any good?

All the stuff I made is amazing.

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The best.

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Ortofon Per Windfeld MC cart (right)
Hadcock GH 242 arm.

Nottingham Analogue Mentor unipivot arm (rear)
Cartridge Man Music Maker mono cart.

Nottingham Analogue Studio Hyperspace TT

Scalford show battle scar

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Tom Willis custom build Art Audio MM Vinyl One PS.

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Into Tom’s custom wound SUTs to match Per Windfeld cart, output 0.3mV

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Art Audio Conductor Pre

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Art Audio Concerto power amp
AA badged KT 90s made by Ei *

E.I stands for Elektronska industrija as was a large manufacture of vacuum tubes. They bought the Philips tooling from Philips when the plant closed and continued to make valves until the factories closer in the late 1990’s
Ei tube factory was founded in 1948 in Nis, Serbia (former Yugoslavia) as a production facility for Institute for the Production of Radio Sets and Roentgen Machines – RR NIS.

In the Golden Age of this holding company. more than 10000 people worked here so it become one of the most important Yugoslavian companies.

Because of the bad management and due to lack of investing in research part of things, and most of all because of the economic embargo and other international commercial restrictions most of the company business and manufacturing facilities collapsed including the one of the few remaining line of production of electronic vacuum tubes.

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Nice setup.

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TT & amps made in glorified sheds in suburban Nottingham

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What speakers are you using Steve?

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I have a Dais with Verus rim drive and a upgraded vinyl one.

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I’ve visited the NA “production facility” a couple of times and it really is a big brick shed in the front garden!!

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Quad 2905s

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Not stacked pairs? 6/10 :joy:

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I worked in Nis in 2019, the sad ruins of large industry scattered around the outskirts of the City, and a huge operational William Morris factory :smoking: :smoking: :smoking:

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