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Brands that disappeared very quickly

Woodface said:
What about Castle Speakers, they made some nice gear with proper wood finishes. I remember listening to them against an entry level rega stand mount & prefering them. Had them for a few years.
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Went bust many years back, now resurrected and part of IAG, made in China.
I still have a nice pair of Castle Tay in cherry veneer, boxed up when I got the Kudos's, never got round to selling.
 
Jamie said:
Went bust many years back, now resurrected and part of IAG, made in China.
I still have a nice pair of Castle Tay in cherry veneer, boxed up when I got the Kudos's, never got round to selling.
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Are the 'Tay' a stand mount or floor? Can't recall
 
Re . The naim clone
I had a dem of that gear at Audio T, bi amped with Pro-ac tabletts . The name something like Audiovoice but spelt odd ?
 
I've just seen stemcor and PerF 's post about Audio Vois .

I 've been thinking a lot about that dem lately ,it must have been over 30 years ago and has stayed with me ever since . I'm going to give bi-amping a go again .
 
Woodface said:
What about Castle Speakers, they made some nice gear with proper wood finishes. .
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Hardly a brand which 'disappeared very quickly.' Castle was around for the best part of 40 years and as well as their own speakers had a very successful business building cabinets for a lot of UK manufacturers.
 
notevenclose said:
Hardly a brand which 'disappeared very quickly.' Castle was around for the best part of 40 years and as well as their own speakers had a very successful business building cabinets for a lot of UK manufacturers.
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Well, to be a brand it has to have some longevity. Castle could have fallen victim poor succession planning but I am a little ignorant of it's history
 
JensenHealey said:
I had a Kelvin Labs class A (20W as I recall) feeding TDL Studio 1 speakers. Fond memories. Then the Kelvin blew up and the company had disappeared.
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That must have been the Mk1 Kelvin Labs with piddly small heatsink internally. I have the MK2 version with external much bigger heatsinks and it works very nicely for many a year. If used as a power amp (volume control fully up), shows a clean pair of heals to a lot of expensive gear. I preferred it to a ARC D115 driving some big speakers.
 
PerF said:
What was the name of the Brand (Naim 160/42 clone?) amplication back in the eighties ?

Recall it was created by former Naim staff and possible the single only product from him/them.?
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Oooooh.....I had one, can't remember either.....
 
Didn`t someone produce a pickup arm with the tube leadouts connected via tails in a Mercury bath? - I doubt that lasted long.
 
James46 said:
That must have been the Mk1 Kelvin Labs with piddly small heatsink internally. I have the MK2 version with external much bigger heatsinks and it works very nicely for many a year. If used as a power amp (volume control fully up), shows a clean pair of heals to a lot of expensive gear. I preferred it to a ARC D115 driving some big speakers.
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Mine had the external heatsinks. It did last for quite a few years. I was not there when it went bang - one of the kids had switched it on, as they were allowed to.

I could not find any circuits or drawings of the amp so it seemed pointless to try and fix it. Do any circuit diagrams exist for it? - I would be curious to peruse if they were.
 
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