Senior Member
Location: Bishops Stortford
Posts: 1,250
I'm Chris.
A list of Hi fi repairers
I would like to see if we can assemble a comprehensive list of people that are able to fix or service Hi Fi gear. It would be great to cover the whole of the UK
Their area of expertise such as valve gear, tuners etc etc would also be useful.
I dont know anyone in Essex or Herts, which is why I started this thread.
Source
SW1X Universal Music Server UMS I Signature with Power Supply Unit PSU I Signature
SW1X USB II
SW1X DAC III Special
Audiolab 6000 CDT transport
Amps
Pre amps -- Hi fi Collective twin mono ladder stepped attenuator, with Charcroft Z-foil and silver wired. And First Watt B1 active no gain buffer.
Power amps -- Welborne 45 SET monoblocks 1.8W / Decware Taboo 6W / Elekit 300B TU-8600SVK plus further improved components 9W / ICE Power 1000W
Speakers
Highly modified Endorphin P17 open baffle speakers containing both vintage and modern alnico drivers and paper cones. All silver wired - 8" Cube Audio FC8 full range drivers and vintage 15" Altec VOTT 416 bass drivers. All sat on Townsend Audio Podium seismic isolation platforms.
BK Electronics XLS400FF Sub.
Cabling
Silver mains cables, interconnects and speaker cables by SW1X
Headphones
HRT HeadStreamer and SennHeiser HD650 headphones
Senior Member
Location: Wakefield west yorkshire
Posts: 1,930
I'm James.
Quite some way from you Chris, Eric Wiley Castleford, well established and I have used to buy gear and have had gear serviced,
novafidelity x40 music server/pre/dac, Arcam A39, roksan k3 power amp,Monitor Audio Monitor 50, Dali spektor 1, van damme interconnects and speaker cable, roskan k3 CD player
Fount Master & Moderator
Location: Essex
Posts: 32,051
I'm openingabottleofwine.
Gentlemen,
We would be interested in compiling a list of audio repairers from anywhere in the UK.
If sufficiently comprehensive, we can put it in The Knowledge for our Members to see.
Cheers
Barry
Barry
Trade: Wakefield Turntables
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 9,325
I'm Andrew.
Audiovation in Huddersfield. These guys do repairs as well.
https://www.audiovation.co.uk/
SS
CD Teac VRDS25X(Audiotuned) DECK 1210 Mat Crystal Audio Mods MN Base/Bearing/Platter+Ebony armboard Feet Isonoe PSU Paul Hynes SR7EHD-27XL/DCSXL Ag DC lead/3 Stage Regs/Recap PCB+No Pitch/Strobe/Light ARM SME V(Kondo Ag Rewire&Tags) MC Cadenza Black FGS CABLES Arm Yannis SPD-4 IC Yannis 222 Litz+Ag bullets Power WAR PRE ATC SCA2 SPEAKERS ATC 50ASL STANDS Atacama PHONO Sugden Masterclass PA4 SUT Ortofon ST80SE POWER PSAudio P10
VALVE
PRE Croft Epoch(Modded) AMP Sondex S100 (Modded) SPEAKERS Tannoy 15"MG+RFC Warwick cabs+ Ref XO + Batpure supertweeters DECK Garrard 301 Mat Teunto Bearings 401(Bastin) Plinth Bamboo Arms 3009/3012 PSU Eagle+Tachometer MC Ag Meister II/FGS + Ortofon SPU MONO CABLES Arm Yannis 420.5 Litz+ SpeakerPC Tripple C+WBT-0681 Ag IC Oyaide FTVS-510 AgWBT 0110Ag Phonostages Paradise(4 Box Mega-Modded) / Croft Musicmaker
Senior Member
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Posts: 619
I'm Paul.
https://www.retroworkshop.co.uk/
Retro Workshop just outside Southampton have a good reputation down here though I've not had cause to use them myself.
Linn Sondek LP12, Ittok, AT-F7
Schiit Mani MK1 Phono Pre-Amp
Nobsound NS-08P Bluetooth pre-amp
Marantz CD5004 CD Player
Pure DAB tuner
2 x Meridian 205 monoblock power amps
Tannoy T225 "Mayfair" speakers
www.paulridgeblog.com
Fount Master & Moderator
Location: Essex
Posts: 32,051
I'm openingabottleofwine.
Well done - keep them coming!
Barry
Senior Member
Location: Out on the wild and windy moors Lancs / Yorks Border
Posts: 593
I'm Andy.
He probably does not need the work, but Nick Gorham of Long Dog Audio in Halifax is as good as it gets for Valve amps.
Analogue
401 / PU7 / AT33ev
Longdog Audio Quartz turntable PSU
Longdog Audio MCJ1 - Prototype Phonostage
Digital
Innuos Zen Mini Mk 3
Topping D50s
Caiman Seg & Dorado
Cambridge CXC
Amps
Tron Seven Linestage
Bel Canto Set 40 or Nick Gorham built 300B Set Monoblocks
Speakers
Tannoy GRF Memory.
Tannoy ST100.
Senior Member
Location: London
Posts: 645
I'm Peter.
MrTechGuy in Sawtry, Cambs is one of the UK’s Meridian specialists but he does other stuff as well. He just repaired a 500 series CDT for me.
Audio Gold in London N8 also offers a repair service.
The following might no longer be offering services but worth asking:
I don’t know if he’s given up repair work in favour of sales but Mark Dolbear in High Wycombe repaired a CEC amp for me to a very high standard several years ago.
Mike Solomons of London Sound (somewhere near Harrow) repaired some old Rogers speakers for me, but I’ve not used him in the last ten years and I don’t know if he’s still going. He’d clocked up 45 years when I last spoke to him in 2012…
Separates Systems:
(1) Antipodes CX and EX, Matrix Audio X-Saber DSD, Meridian DSP7000 active speakers;
(2) Lumin D2, Cary CD-308 cdp, Quad 99 power amp, Horns 5degreeN*27 speakers;
(3) Homebrew PC with Onkyo Wavio SE200 soundcard running Daphile, Quad 44 and 405.2 into Dali Zensor 1s;
(4) Sooloos C15 plus storage, Braun A2, P1, CD3, C1 and T1 into Sonus Faber Concertos.
Integrated Home System:
Sony PS-X600, Naimnet NNT01 DAB Tuner; NS02 Server; NNP01/NNP02 room amplifiers; Netstreams switches, keypads, KEF Ci130QS/Soundlight speakers.
Senior Member
Location: London
Posts: 645
I'm Peter.
I don’t see Deco in Aylesbury on the thread. Hasn’t someone recently been singing their praises re repairing a high end CDP?
Separates Systems:
(1) Antipodes CX and EX, Matrix Audio X-Saber DSD, Meridian DSP7000 active speakers;
(2) Lumin D2, Cary CD-308 cdp, Quad 99 power amp, Horns 5degreeN*27 speakers;
(3) Homebrew PC with Onkyo Wavio SE200 soundcard running Daphile, Quad 44 and 405.2 into Dali Zensor 1s;
(4) Sooloos C15 plus storage, Braun A2, P1, CD3, C1 and T1 into Sonus Faber Concertos.
Integrated Home System:
Sony PS-X600, Naimnet NNT01 DAB Tuner; NS02 Server; NNP01/NNP02 room amplifiers; Netstreams switches, keypads, KEF Ci130QS/Soundlight speakers.
Senior Member
Location: Out on the wild and windy moors Lancs / Yorks Border
Posts: 593
I'm Andy.
Frank Cookson on the Wirral for all things Tannoy and JBL. He refoamed my 15" DC drivers 5 years ago and touch wood they have worked perfectly since.
Analogue
401 / PU7 / AT33ev
Longdog Audio Quartz turntable PSU
Longdog Audio MCJ1 - Prototype Phonostage
Digital
Innuos Zen Mini Mk 3
Topping D50s
Caiman Seg & Dorado
Cambridge CXC
Amps
Tron Seven Linestage
Bel Canto Set 40 or Nick Gorham built 300B Set Monoblocks
Speakers
Tannoy GRF Memory.
Tannoy ST100.
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