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Brands that disappeared very quickly

Stands Unique for equipment stands. I still have one in use and I think that the combination of glass and hexagonal legs still betters much of the newer stuff. Interestingly you can still contact the founder to request small parts (such as carbon fibre isolators).

In terms of speakers I'd list Ruark. I enjoyed a pair of Ruark Equinoxes for a number of years. I know the company has continued but it has long since abandoned its production of high end speakers (a shame because they were good).
 
doctorf said:
I liked my Armstrong 621 amplifier and the Syrinx PU1 was great, if not a little crude
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The Armstrong 621 suffered from cataclysmic reliability problems and the Syrinx PU1 looked liked it had been knocked up in someone's shed unlike the contempory Micro Seiki MA 505 which not only sounded far superior but was a properly built arm and didn't look like a kid's school project.
 
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In terms of speakers I'd list Ruark. I enjoyed a pair of Ruark Equinoxes for a number of years. I know the company has continued but it has long since abandoned its production of high end speakers (a shame because they were good).[/QUOTE]

Continues in name only I think. Talisman 2's were very enjoyable, and built with integrity and common sense.
 
Rana said:
Linx amplifiers are by far my favourite long-gone brand. Founded in NZ in the 1980's they moved to the UK and I think were located in Canvey Island area. I first heard their Stratos pre and mon-power amps in a show at a Swiss Cottage hotel in the 1980's and lusted after them since. My first foray into Linx ownership was the Linx Vega power amp which I actually liked over the Supernait the preceded it and dare I say it, also the Bedini that succeeded it. I then managed to find a Nebula integrated which I still have - this MosFET'd beauty can outboogie a Nait 2 and drive anything. I need to get it recapped. A couple of year's back I managed to locate an example of the Stratos kit in good external nick. More refined than the Nebula and by far the best amplification I have had. The pre-amp has been upgraded by an ex-Linx designer still based in Canvey. The power amps were restored by a local specialist after the previous owner's repairer had bodged it The only downside is the Stratos pre and power amps are very susceptible to noise in my mains.
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Goodness, that was a long time ago, they rented space in my office and workshop,we often chatted and had fun especially Christmas parties at Inca Tech.
Yes it was Canvey Island, the building is now a pet food store.
 
They also if I recall imported Micromega mine still works, a Philips based design I think, any thought on that please.

Oh heck I also lent the chap in charge my Mullard Audio Book, if he is reading this can I have it back please, he he no I got another from the Book Barn.

https://www.bookbarninternational.com/
 
How on earth did mana go under?! They were selling them by the bucketload....At a time when Linn/Naim dealers were busting the doors...
 
Maybe financial mismanagement...they were certainly charging enough, with upfront payments as well as being the darling of the biggest selling hifi dealers in the country...

Maybe the MD was married to my Mrs....:p
 
As a teen my first turntable was a Fisher (Fischer??). As a later teen my third turntable was a CJ Walker, played through a QED amp.
 
CJ14 said:
Goodness, that was a long time ago, they rented space in my office and workshop,we often chatted and had fun especially Christmas parties at Inca Tech.
Yes it was Canvey Island, the building is now a pet food store.
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I had a Linx Nebula. Found a picture of it in a house I owned from 93 to 97.
 
A lot of the small family techy type luxury company died and our Maggie did that by changing Tax brakes on Mortgages. Many struggled and are still here but mine Inca Tech did not, I never took good take advise from people like Brain O'rouke who told me to push export, we could barely make enough for the UK. Now I would not sink all my eggs into the British fickle Hi-fi sales, just as I taught TQ and look what they have none
 
Bob McC said:
Bits of The Syrinx PU3 I owned would come apart regularly.
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Syrinx lives on, as the Audio Origami PU7. Far better built and much easier to set up.

Albarry seems to have died with its designer, sadly. Mine are still in daily use, sounding stunning. I’m looking for one of their MC stages, if anybody knows of one for sale, please get in touch.
 
Sue Pertwee-Tyr said:
Syrinx lives on, as the Audio Origami PU7. Far better built and much easier to set up.

Albarry seems to have died with its designer, sadly. Mine are still in daily use, sounding stunning. I’m looking for one of their MC stages, if anybody knows of one for sale, please get in touch.
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The PU3 had a cigar shaped arm tube. Audio Origami's doesn't.
 
I had a Syrinx PU2 gold back in the day, built in an Edinburgh mews garage if I remember correctly.

What about Tresham amplification, I remember seeing one of those feeding some Proac EBC speakers somewhere.
It may have morphed into a Tannoy power amp later.
 
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