Thanks for your patience during our move. Orders went out pretty well on schedule and I think we've found everything at the new location. With 300+ items (and counting) there is much more to organize!
Our warehouse and office/demo room is now in one workshop, which makes life much easier. The workshop is a corner unit; both sides face the mountains so no more smog from city streets coming our way -- just fresh air. This building was the last one constructed in this industrial village so amenities are much better.
We have some major new product announcements coming up in the next few weeks -- stay tuned!

Monday, April 6 is our moving day. Not far, just two buildings from our present location. Everything that should have been shipped has been, and I don't expect any delay in order processing this week.
Our new shop is almost 2x the present one so allows us to combine warehouse and office in one location; we will no longer need to keep two separate units.
Please allow us an extra day to reply to emails.
thx
Brian and DIY Hifi deskmates: Benny, Simon, Micah, Teresa and Mak

A bad knob denies our DIY Project its deserved place in the home because it's ...er, ugly.
A good knob is the finishing touch, and not only radiates positive vibes all can appreciate -- it gives a quality feel to switches despite their humble origin.

Machined from solid aluminum, Buff-cote finished and includes allen head set screw.
41mm diameter, 25mm deep

More DIY done right!

A couple of blogs ago you saw the view out our window on a fiery day.
Today you see what our view will be when we move into new premises in a couple weeks. Ah, I can smell that mountain air already!
Actually it's only 2 buildings up from our present location but is one of the last buildings put up in this industrial neighborhood. It is much larger and allows us to combine our warehouse and office into one facility. It's also a newer building and on the 8th Floor, where the fire hoses can reach. Not that we plan on needing them.

And why are we doing all this? To serve you better, of course!

DIY done right!

We used to buy CCC from Vampire and supply teflon piping but eventually it was no longer listed.
But we have another source (Differential Technology) AND more variety:

1.2mm solid core served in teflon @ $4.50USD/M
0.8mm solid core served in teflon @ $3.00USD/M
0.6mm solid core served in teflon @ $2.10USD/M

We also have two sizes of copper braid shielded (3 solid core CCC conductors, teflon served + braided copper shield):
3 x 1.2mm @ $20USD/M
3 x 0.6mm @ $10USD/M

More DIY, done right!

Our shop is on the 17th Floor and this is what we saw out our window at about 2pm today -- a 3 alarm fire. This was on the rooftop of an industrial building, 15 floors up. Rooftop fires are scary because it's difficult to get the hoses up there to extinguish the flames. The water jets couldn't quite make it, reaching to about the 13th floor. Even so it they managed to bring it under control in about 90 minutes.
We haven't heard the extent of the damage or if there were any injuries. We were grateful that the smoke was not blowing in our direction. Being an industrial area, doubtless there are toxic substances in storage; together with fire, doesn't make for good air.
Well, never a dull moment.

Preamps
here's where I'm coming from:
there's different kinds of ice cream (bulk vs premium etc) and there are different flavours (strawberry, vanilla etc); quality an issue of the former, preference of the latter.
All our preamps are premium performers and will run with the best. The last mediocre preamp we made was the original Basie 7yrs ago and it wasn't bad, at least as good or better than other products at the price. But since then every one has excelled. If there's a problem it that they are too good for the money.
Passives: The Silk equipped AVC and TVC are state-of-the-art wide bandwidth linestages -- in fact dropping these into customer's systems in place of some of the mega $ commercial preamps has on occasion, been embarrassing for the competition.

The Word has been given to us and now we give it to you:
The 0.5w and 1w OK for foreseeable future but the 2w has stopped production. Once listed remaining stock is sold we will not restock.
Yes they are expensive but if you've used tantalum in your circuits you know there is no real substitute -- having the bell-like clarity of the best metal films with the tonal richness of the best carbon comps.
Attached see the list of remaining stock as of today; they're going fast.

Copper sheet should be part of every DIY'rs part's store:
ground plane - make flawless signal return ground path using bug-splat! type connection points.
shielding/lining chassis, sensitive high gain stages, transformers etc.
And make your own tube shields - commercial tube shields are perfectly useless thin .3mm aluminum. Roll a tube shield from this copper sheet, run a ground wire to chassis and you won't believe the difference electrically and sonically.

This sheeting is 0.4+mm thick, the thickest that can be reasonably soldered by DIY'rs because copper is VERY effective conducting heat when in sheet form.

You may remember the Chazz. It used EL34/KT88 and 6SN7 (earlier versions 6SL7) and output transformers. Eventually we sold out and it was right at the time when chassis and transformer parts costs were escalating; our attentions were diverted to reworking our whole lineup to work within the new economic realities.

The Chazz 2 makes it own statement. You be the judge:

-OTL through film caps. MUCH much better clarity, finesse and speed as compared to electrolytics.

Front panel: