“How many hi-fi professionals can say that they’ve designed at least one of every part of a complete recording system, from microphones to tape recorders to vinyl-disc-cutting electronics? Probably only Tim de Paravicini (footnote 1). Best known to audiophiles for…

As to static, a method I devised many years ago which is simply a modified coat hanger screwed to the deck in the shape of an up side down “L” so that the straight arm hangs about an inch and…

Hmm. Oh dear – and oh well! This interview shown below this introduction was rejected for publication by a UK Audio magazine. This is pity, but that’s life. The reasons are far from clear but somehow I guess that there…

There are so many ways power transformers are made. I on all my valve power amps design my power transformer so that a low voltage secondary winding behaves as an electrostatic screen so either mains terminal end of the primary…