Has anyone mentioned Myryad?
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LFD are still in business and aparently still pretty obscure. I only know of them because of a (very good) dealer in California who has been singing their praises consistently for well over a decade. He sent me some of their speaker cables to try with a par if Harbeth P3 ESRs - I kept the cables but not the Harbeth’s.
I concur, DNM has got be one of my favourite small specialist audio companies. The owner and senior designer at the company, Denis Morecroft is a delightful fellow, and in the past I have had fascinating conversations with him over the phone about RF and the effects on audio circuitry.
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DNM were always a company that intrigued me along with NVA because they both espoused similar design principles. I’m pleased to see both companies are still going because their heyday seemed to be in the late 1980’s-early 1990’s and I’ve seen few reviews of any of their models since.
Mind you that may not be surprising. I had a somewhat protracted email correspondence with the boss of NVA when I tried to arrange to review one of their pre-power combinations for Soundstage only recently. Sadly they elected not to proceed with offering a product for review but their stuff has to my eyes at least always looked very beautiful and minimalist.
It can be hard dealing with the smaller audio firms sometimes…
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Not that obscure I would say. Tim de Paravicini is quite a name in HiFi.
DNM, NVA and a few others mentioned in this thread I had never heard of.
Wilson Benesch?
Cyrus?
Music First?
They seem to be obscure here but that’s my system except for a streamer and a DAC
Wilson Benesch and Cyrus i would say both are reasonably well known, Music First , never heard of them
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n-lot, was I’m afraid, he passed a couple of years ago i think.
Indeed he did…
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Densen are Danish.
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Yes, looked it up and apologies to Music First , very well established
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I thought I recognised the Pepperpot in your Avatar as the one above Blacking Chine.Lived there in 1986-87.
Damn spell Checker" Blackgang Chine "
I know it was mentioned early in this thread, but has anyone heard the NVA line of preamps/amps? I watched several positive videos on Youtube and it looks like an interesting line of electronics.
It is indeed, I’m a Caulkhead myself, family go back hundreds of years in the Niton area. I spent most of my formative years in Cowes usually on the water in one form or another.
I managed to escape to the Mainland many years ago!
Still a beauty.
JPW (Cabinets made in a prison?) - Well remembered. Wasn’t it Portland ?
I did not even know Lentek made amplifiers, I had a pair of their loudspakers at one point, and my brother had a Matsui amplifier. Interesting!?
What a coincidence, My brother in-law comes from Niton.
I have many fond memories of my time on the Island and after moving to the Gold Coast for a few years we are back in a small town in Southland New Zealand.