Recent content by David Galsworthy

I have had the pleasure of running a Croft Series 3 amplifier for about 6 years now with my Quad 57 ELS speakers and it sounds amazing. Living in York it was a relatively short drive to Scarborough to take the amp to Glenn to sort out any issues. He was always really brilliant in his care for...

Bencat - don't know what the issue is with the Croft in terms of volume. My Croft is fed by a AudioPax Model 5 pre-amplifier and the Croft will play pretty loud -for electrostatics that is. My neighbour does occassionally complain about the noise level so not exactly quiet. What is the output...

Great glad the amp is safely back home with you now. Enjoy your listening session - I think you will find it has been worth it!!!! Let me know how you get on. Interesting your room improvement stuff. No idea how this works. Maybe you could let me know? Regards David

Yes I have started to collect a few off ebay but hopefully I will not need the valves for a long time now!!!! Enjoy the amp when you get it home and let me know what you think of it - I think it is pretty wonderful so I hope you wll too!!!! How long we will be able to rely on Glenn to sort out...

Glenn showed me a Seres 3R so I assumed it was yours. Should sound great in your system. Mine working fine again now with its new set of valves. Glenn reckons some of the valves he replaced were the originals he put on the amp 30 years ago so with a bit of luck this new set of valves will see me...

Bencat - I saw your Series 3R amp today when I was picking up my amp at Glenns'. He said he had nearly finished the service so should be sorted very soon. The 3R looks very cool. Mine is the standard 519 valve Series 3. Interesting Glenn says it is getting more difficult to get the 519 valve but...

Great you got your amp overto Glenn. He has sorted my amp out now so hopefully your's will not be too far behind. Yes you are more than welcome if you come and drop in when you go to Scarborough to pick up the amp. You might be interested to know that a couple of years ago the transformer went...

Bencat - just spotted you are in Liverpool - not too far from York!!!!

Bencat did you get your Croft Series 3 sorted. I have a Series 3 which Glenn has been keeping sorted for me for about 3 years now. I was getting some distortion from one of the channels so like you I tried to get in touch with Glenn via his email. Eventually I did get a response and I took the...

The Lector phonostage http://www.lector-audio.com/TAS%20Lector%20phono%20amp.pdf would get my money. Should be in buget 2nd hand and Nick at the Emporium usually has one in stock. I keep trying phonostages but I keep sending them back since the Lector does everything better than all the ones I...

I have been a long term addict to the sound of Quad 57 electrostatics and have had my pair since 1993. They are some of the last ones built with a S/N of about 52000. I had them serviced by One Thing Audio in 2001. One speaker developed a distortion fault with the treble panel about 18 months...

Me and my brother built a pair of the HI-Fi answers transmission line monitors way back in 1976. Used the KEF B139,200, T27 and Coles super tweeter units which we purchased from Wilmslow Audio. I was just 16 at the time so learning how to build something like this was quite a challenge but we...

This is my system as it stands at the moment - Garrard 401 deck, SME V arm, Van Den Hul Colibri cartridge, Lector phono stage, Raspberry Pi Allo Digione Signature feeding SP-DIF into a Chord Mojo running Roon, a very good DIY pre with stepped resistor gain control and valve gain stage, Croft...

Thanks James for the help much apprecaited David

Dear Alex I will in the next few weeks be putting a DDDAC together. I think I will pretty much copy your installation - 4 deck DDDAC with your suggested 12v supply with the sjoestroem super regualtor. I will be inputing from a SP-DIF output from a Digione Signature One streamer so do not need...