Radford Revival Exclusive on Hifi Pig

[stupinder]

Just a quick one to say that Hifi Pig has secured a world first review of the new "Radford Revival" valve amplifiers.
The amplifiers are a limited edition reissue of the classic Radford STA 15 and STA 25 valve amplifiers. There's an initial news story on the Hifi Pig site here
The reviews will be live in 3 to 4 weeks.

I'd also like to publicly thank Marco for allowing Hifi Pig to post news on AOS. Thanks, Marco it's really appreciated!!

Cheers,
Hifi Pig
Stu

[Barry]

Interesting - I wonder how many they will sell. Any idea who is making the transformers for them? And where do they source the valves?

Since it is highly unlikely these new amps will be used with a Radford preamp, I can't see the point in the octal socket on the front panel. I would prefer it if it was replaced by a good quality mains connector that would allow users to choose their own mains lead.

Still it's good to know someone is going to restart manufacture of these amps using the latest high quality components.

I wish them success.

[Ali Tait]

Interesting. The price is reasonable too.

[DSJR]

£2800 is still a huge amount of money for a power amp these days, BUT, in the well off far eastern market where £10,000 EAR amps are sold and highly respected I believe, this price is very low.

They do look good and bring back fond memories of mine, which noone really wanted to service back in 1976 That's why I sold them (stupid boy.........)

[Ali Tait]

Well when you see what the vintage ones go for these days, I don't think it's too silly, especially when it looks like they wind their own trannies.

[stupinder]

They don't do their own transistors
"After contacting a transformer manufacturer highly recommended by John Widgery, brand new Radford transformer sets were specified for both the STA15 and STA25."
The new transistors are machine wound and conform to todays safety regs. Steve at RR reckons they are better than the originals!

[Ali Tait]

They must be very good indeed then.

[stupinder]

Here's what the website says about the transformers "We have been able to recreate these famous high quality transformers exactly according to the specifications written by Arthur Radford himself."

[Jonboy]

they look reasonably priced in todays market, i believe the original transformers were all wound by one woman

[IHP]

This whole venture and website looks to be really interesting and I wish all involved tremendous success. Not an easy time to be kicking off a new business, especially in the 'luxury' market. They look the part too. Beautiful. I'll be bothering them for a Radford badge for my 15.

Look forward to reading the review Stu, and looking at HiFi Pig, which I've only just heard of ! Was the review at the side of an original Radford ?