Oh yes DIY tube amp building is definitely a subsect of a subsect, but of our 30 strong group, there are younger members the youngest being 18. Plus there is my son, who is 28, has built several of his own tube amps and has a small business making and selling hand-crafted wooden chassis. There are others who also have small businesses making and selling self designed and built loudspeakers. I totally agree that the hi-fi business is doomed if it carries on as it is doing and peddling voodoo to the gullible. I know that in the UK there is something of a return to the roots of hi-fi as it was in the fifties, with enthusiasts building their own gear. The days of mass market hi-fi have gone forever and the industry will have only itself to blame when the end comes.
It is salutory to note that all of our DIY group once used nothing but commercial gear, but have rejected it completely as it was nothing more than a money pit, that produced mediocre sound quality. Here is a sample set of pictures of the stuff we do First my system comprising home designed and built valve amplifier feeding my own design Metronome tapered quarter wave loudspeakers. [image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7181882/801asystem.jpg][image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7181882/801aglowshot2.jpg] Below is another fellow DIY hobbyist's hand crafted speakers that he builds to order. [image: http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/Dingsking/IMG_2756a.jpg] Yes I suppose we are part of an underground movement but in our neck of the woods it is getting bigger. There is still life in the old Hi-Fi scene, if you know where to look. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SteveCresswell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13120 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94485 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
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