Hand built, 80 w per channel into 8 Ohms. Darlington circuit, all analogue with power surge and speaker protection. Based on Naim.
Used Items For Sale
Valves for sale – £offers …
2 x Gold Lion KT88 (4 hours use)
2 x Mullard EL84 (Heavier use)
4 x Western Electric 2C51 (Little use)
1 x Siemens E88CC (Gold pins, little use)
1 x Carbon anode Raytheon 6080 WE (Little use)
1 x A1834 (Little use)
2 x Philips 12BH7A NOS.
Offers
Hartung OTL headphone amp. £280
Can supply with the standard valves – 1 x 6080 and 1 x 6SN7 – or upgraded valves such as carbon anode 6080 for more grip or A1834 for more emotion.
The original SE OTL design which has inspired various Chinese copies.
Nottingham Analogue Tracer 3 cartridge.
With broken cantilever. Genuine spares cost £148.50.
Excellent sound quality when working.
Sennheiser HD 660s – £295
The perfect compromise between the HD 600 monitoring sound and the HD 650/HD 6XX warmer tone. In fact, better than both in some areas including bass.
150 Ohm.
Original cables, box and instructions.
Great condition, not used much.
Sennheiser HD 25-1 headphones.
One driver damaged – not through overdriving.
No lead.
Will put on Ebay if don’t sell soon.
Reasonable offer accepted.
Transcription Audio mono-blocks. £950
Mono-block tri-wired battery powered power amplifiers with a pair of tri-wired B&W DM2 series 2 loudspeakers to match the amps included.
MDF casework.
3 x 50W channels per amp.
Include battery charger power transformers.
Silver ribbon signal cabling in ptfe,
Audio Note silver sockets.
Mundorf input capacitors.
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. £2000
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.
Retails for £3750 + VAT.
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.
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 £3995.
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.
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.
Role Audio Enterprise Loudspeakers – £1900
Incredible sounding slim dual transmission line floor standing loudspeakers – great imaging, tight bass, very integrated crossover with natural top end which is never shrill. Work very well with a wide range of amplifiers and suit Croft very well. The image shows the wood finish we have in stock.
Useful review to read here: Role Audio Enterprise Louspeaker Review.
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
In good condition with 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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Cut Loose Audio Silver Supreme 1m digital lead. £550
As used in Hi-Fi shows by Audio Note between Dac and transport.
99.999% flat silver in ptfe tube with silk damping.
Anti-static outer braid.
Best there is?
Retail is around £1000
Pair of original Advent speaker badges.
Images to follow.
And 1 x Impulse H2 loudspeaker grille badge.
Kef Q32.5 drive-units – £30 pair
Boxed Kef replacements – Few hours use. 4 Ohm versions.
Both units working perfectly. Can send images of meter readings in ohms.
Can include used crossovers in price if needed.
