Tim,
I've just popped into the music room to take some pictures, please excuse the mess and dust

We are renovating and there is dust everywhere, also this room is packed with stuff as we empty other rooms to work. I do wish the garage would come along more quickly so I can move some things over there. But this rain is really holding things back.
Anyway, some very quick and dirty pics with no posing shots at all....honest....

Not all my amps, some are still packed since we moved and some have found new homes.
My phono stage "True Realism" As you can see things are packed in tightly as we want minimum lead lengths between components due to the low signals. We don't want stray stuff getting in and being amplified along with the music. It's a SRPP circuit and was quite hard to get right. It's a lot more complicated than it looks. Those two little circuit boards are the RIAA stages. Technically quite difficult to get right. Valves are ECC83's.
Always a working progress as you can see....
The amp


The power supply

The Power Amps at a whopping 2W per channel, don't be deceived by two measly watts, these can punch some volume out. All depends on the speakers which are usually built to match. All 1920's valves, my own design using a MH41 triode which I believe I was the first to use for HiFi. Power valve is a PX4.
Each box is mono, so two used to make a stereo.
The 833 amps are tagged onto the end of these as a further stage.




The speakers,
My own design using London Ribbons for the high end, Wharfdales with a wizzer for the mids, and Fane pop 50's 12" for the base, and there is a lot of punchy base, too much in fact.

The turntable, one of many, my own design and build of plinth, tonearm mount, stand etc

The 833 amplifier stage has no caps and no resistors, just a power supply, output transformer and wire. Nothing to get in the way and taint the purity of the music.
As you can see, I'm into HiFi and deff a valve man, hate silicon, sounds dreadful IMHO. A quick and dirt post for you, I could write till the cows come home about this stuff but better not eh

There you go that's a taster for you
