With broken cantilever. Genuine spares cost £148.50.
Excellent sound quality when working.
Adrian
Mild steel support brackets. £150
PAIR OF MILD STEEL SUPPORT BRACKETS. 6MM WALL MOUNTING PLATES DRILLED FOR ANCHORING TO WALL (CHECK BEARING CAPACITY OF WALL PRIOR TO INSTALLATION AND FIXING TYPE) 50MM X 50MM X5MM MS ANGLES WELDED TO PLATES TO PROVIDE SUPPORT. UPPERMOST BRACKET ARMS WITH THREADED BOLT ADJUSTERS FROM BELOW TO ALLOW LEVELLING (SUPPLIED). (LOWER BRACKETS NO ADJUSTMENT- USE SHIMS / SIMILAR (NOT SUPPLIED) IF ADJUSTMENT IS REQUIRED) BRACKETS ARE DESIGNED TO BE FINISHED WITH SAME PAINT AS WALL PLANE TO BLEND IN, AND AS SUCH, WILL COME WITH RAL 9010 MATT DULUX PAINT COLOUR PICTURED.
Gold Note CD-7 with top of the range Favard upgrades – £1200
The compact CD-7 was always very musical.
This is a custom-built one-off Gold Note supplied to me with upgrades from the top of the range Favard including its Burr Brown PCM 1792A DAC, components of its power supply including the power regulator and OP as well as the Clock.
The idea being to have a really compact CD player of superior quality.
DIMENSIONS: Width 200mm x Height 80mm x Depth 260mm
Superb and at my cost price.
Tektron TK2A350S REF power amplifier.
Ex-dem with 10 hours of use.
Fascinating power amp with adjustable heater voltage allowing use of different output triodes – 45, 2a3, 300B, VT 50 &52.
Can use UX245, UX345, KR 242 and type 46 with adaptors.
Currently has Electro Harmonix 300B Golds.
JAN 5Z3 rectifier.
Retails for £3750 + VAT.
‘SME’ RCA plugs.
Many years ago I used to curse the overly complex 4-5 piece RCA plugs which were often referred to as ‘SME’ plugs.
I don’t know if SME made them but they were dreadful.
Often attached to arm leads the wires would shear, come loose and cause all sorts of intermittent problems.
The screen wires were trapped by a threaded portion which would soon enough break off the filaments or develop a loose connection.
To my surprise, some Chord cables use a similar design of RCA plug with a plastic outer casing.
My Chord iChord lead has been very unreliable with the centre pins sometimes sticking in the socket and the plastic body sliding off the plug (hence the ugly glue fix) and the same issues with the screen- pinching piece needing tightening and the screen coming detached.
Now, the last straw, the earth has sheared causing a rare drive-unit to be blown…
Peerless 100-20 co-ax drivers – offers
Rare 9 inch drivers with tweeter on frame in front of bass-driver dust cap.
Alnico magnets.
Not the first time I find a good co-axial driver outperforms a good full ranger. E.g. Visaton B200, Fostex etc.
Peerless did not bother replying regarding driver parameters but sensitivity seems very high – about 95db.
Original Jensen caps (which measure fine) supplied but have replaced them just in case. – see image.
Gold Note Mediterraneo turntable in walnut – £4250
Ex-dem £4295.
Hardly used.
Walnut is the best sounding version.
With B5.1 arm and dust cover.
Electronic speed control.
Class-leading sound quality and ease of use.
Will include new cartridge!
Retail for this spec. is £5445.
These images are of my original Olive wood demonstrator, not the walnut which is darker.
Audioflair
There has been some confusion about our status. We never traded as Audioflair Ltd. We applied to be a Ltd Co to protect the Audioflair name but it remained dormant until it was voluntarily dissolved by us in 2016. I have always been a sole trader and still am.
Yuan-Jing TPA3116 Class D Amplifier Board 50W+50W – £70
The best off the shelf TPA3116 amplifier.
Genuine Texas Instruments chipset
Built into a compact box.
Will supply with 19V DC power supply. (Needs 12-24V DC)
Surprisingly good sound. E.g. outperforms Temple Audio Bantam Gold – i.e. more open sound and better tonality than TABG.
Croft amplifier logos and badges £1-£4 each
Selection from old ranges.
E.g. You could change Absolut, Charisma, Epoch Elite, Vitale knob surround label to gold, silver or purple for a new look. I also have a 2 hole stereo pot version of the label available.
I have a few logo lenses too.
Or just replace your missing labels.
SME 3S arm – £375
In good condition with instructions, leads and damping trough.
Mantrasound Naturelle speakers £1500
95db 8 ohm super fast 5 inch Supravox bass/mid drivers with special wooden phase plugs.
Silver inductors and top quality capacitors in outboard 1st order crossover.
Best sounding bespoke dipole tweeter ever.
Great with 300B amps and amps with fullsome bass e.g Monarchy SM 70 etc.
Retail was about £5000
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Pair of original Advent speaker badges.
Images to follow.
And 1 x Impulse H2 loudspeaker grille badge.
”Highly recommended!”
Nome: Guido Brivio
Professione: Docente universitario.
E’ molto raro, come è noto, che uno specialista di Hi fi – e in genere di qualunque servizio – lasci completamente soddisfatti e non mostri pecche. Ma questo è il caso. Adrian Parsons di Audioflair ha mostrato eccezionale competenza, pazienza e raffinatezza nel mettere a punto un impianto hi end di inaudita – è il caso di dirlo – qualità, sapendo ascoltare le mie esigenze e trovando la soluzione ideale. Il tutto, incredibile a dirsi, a un costo davvero ragionevole per la qualità dei componenti, dimostrando un’onestà, correttezza e trasparenza che sembrano non avere nulla a che fare con il mondo del mero commercio ma piuttosto con quello dell’amicizia. Highly recommended!
Dale Vishay 24 step ladder attenuators assembled – £40/pair.
Pair of 50K monos
Pair of run-in 50K monos.
All use the superior RN60D type Dale resistors.
Pink Triangle PT00 – 650 Euros.
Serviced by Arthur K. at Funk Firm with Funk Firm Achromat and acrylic armboard.
This was serviced by Arthur and then traded-in soon after.
There are 3 drive belts and 3 hinge Lids.
A Funk Firm mat and perspex armboard plus the original armboard.
No lid.
Can supply and fit with excellent Gold Note B5.1 arm for extra £730.
(B5.1 arm in pictures is mine, but I could supply a new, unopened one.)
Excellent 3D depth and emotional involvement.
It has the bigger Pink Triangle power supply tested and working well.
PT00 fully tested 650 Euros without arm.
Gold Note Tuscany Gold cartridge – £2795
Top of the range Moving Coil with silver coils.
Amazing detail and even-handedness.
Very neutral.
Will consider exchange for a Miyajima cartridge which has a deliberately warmer tone.
Not run-in yet – less than 50 hours.
Can be inspected.
£6200 retail.
The Tuscany Gold phono cartridge features the smallest, highest precision micro-coils Gold Note has ever produced. Featuring one of the shortest and stiffest cantilevers available, the Tuscany Gold is able to guarantee great tracking ability that allows the cartridge to be matched with almost any tonearm on the market. The revised body of the Tuscany Gold made of 7000 silicon alloy injected with semi-fluid polymers provides total vibration control for a top audio performance. Due to its excellent internal impedance of 40 ohm the Tuscany Gold can be easily matched with MC active phono preamps without any Step-Up transformer.
Specifications
MC Low Output Phono Cartridge
– Output level: 0.15mV
– Frequency response: 10-70000Hz
– Impedance: 40ohm
– Suggested load: >400ohm
– Compliance: 15×10-6cm/dyne
– Channel separation: >35dB
– Suggested tracking weight: 1.4 to 2.0g
– Cantilever: extra short magnesium alloy
– Diamond: Super Micro Elliptical shape
– Mounting hole diamond distance: 5mm
Physical
– Total weight: 11g
Finishes
– Body: solid block machined hardened aluminium and Sustarin
– Color: black body with gold logo and name
Fake Balanced Leads
Many balanced leads available in the HI-FI World are not – one earth pin is either not connected internally or bridged in a pseudo-balanced way. Glue-up plug barrel – Hey Presto!
Role Audio Kayaks £750.
Excellent sub-compact 2 way loudspeakers in natural birch finish.
Extremely good, seamless crossover design.
Better than LS3/5a IMO.
Amazing imaging.
Include elegant magnetic grilles.
Dimensions: 8 X 5.5 X 6.5 inches, 20 X 14 X 17 cm
https://www.roleaudio.com/kayak
Audioflair choke DC turntable power supply £550
Mains powered 12v DC adjustable (from 2v) turntable power supply in extruded aluminium case. Superb component quality such as Hammond choke, Jensen 4 pole capacitors, Audionote 2w tantalums mounted on ebony block, flat silver wiring, ASC polypropylene and oil PSU capacitor.
