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Hello Francois, I am at present listening to the Zingalis on the Sugden. This is what I hear. The treble is very detailed YET not shrill. On Alison Moyet's "Almost Blue " , if I listen quite loudly, there is a touch of sibilance on the Tannoys, but on the Zingalis just clean treble. I can only...

There is a forum member who has done more for me and my hobby than anyone else on the earth. This member trusted me with some of his best and crazy expensive kit in order to educate me in the appreciation of music and the reproduction thereof. As an example, he let me borrow (to be used in my...

Over the years that I have been a forum member, I have spent many hours reading the threads, sometimes I have been annoyed at some of the idiotic (to me) questions asked by some of the obvious "newbies", however, there is one member who has consistently and patiently answered all questions in a...

I have seen a certain "noobie" exalted to AV Veteran status with very few "good" posts that are informative or educational in any way. Then there are people like Ampdog Hi_phibian Audiomuse ,even BWS not to forget Gearslave,Geko et al who constantly inform and educate us in the finer things of...

Greetings Forum members, Does anyone have a set of Acoustat speakers which I may listen to? Failing which, is there someone with a faulty set of these speakers he/she wishes to get rid of (in other words) sell. I thank you in advance Mike

Calling all the "resourcefull" formulites. Where can I buy Mylar sheeting to repair an electrostatic speaker?? Thanking you in advance.

Greetings all audiophiles and others like myself, Is there anyone in the Pretoria Jo'burg area who has a S.E.T valve amplifier? and if so is he prepared to let me listen to it ? I have heard so much about these amps being inefficient, and riddled with disgustingly high distortion but still they...

To all the Real Electronic Gurus out in AVSA land,  I need some help . I am busy restoring a Quad 303 power amp and have been guided by many Googled accounts of which transistors to use as replacements for the original parts used. I have gone to such lengths to obtain the "better" transistors...

I remember that some time back someone had sourced a place which sold some sort of dense sand which could be used to fill speaker boxes and component stand legs in order to reduce resonance within the cabinet or component stand. Could someone remember where and please advise me as to where this...

I have some pictures of a project that I would like to show on this forum, how do I go about loading them onto this site?

Help please.... I am busy trying to restore an old valve power amp and I find difficulty in sourcing the correct capacitors. Would the AVSA brains trust please advise me as to where good audio capacitors can be obtained???  I live in the Pretoria Johannesburg area and have tried RS comps...

Is it just me or do other people also find these avatars distracting and irritating??? The worst is that the people who have them ,usually post very interesting subjects so while you are trying to read their input this pair of BOOBS keeps almost popping out in your face My 2c from a grumpy old man.

Greetings all,  I need help with speaker connections on an old Geloso Valve power amp. I'm hoping someone like Ampdog or GITM or gbyleveld can tell me how to connect the speakers. Why this is such an issue is because this amp has a little connection box with no less than  eight terminals and...