As I was in 2002. I have not
changed much since.
However, I rarely wear a tie because I am mostly
busy in a
workshop.
It is now
March 2011, and for
the last 12 months I have
been mainly occupied
with re-engineering a few old
tube amplifiers and loudspeaker sets and
general repairs and
maintenance for a few old clients and a few new clients.
Over the last 12 months some
health
problems reduced my available time for
craftwork
projects which take hundreds of hours.
I was not able to enter
into contracts for complete new
hand crafted amplifiers.
I could accept orders for hand crafted
amplifier systems at
the end April 2011
when I think my health should improve further following some minor
medical
treatments.
I am now available for Repairs,
Servicing, Re-engineering and Restorations
of older electronics as
described at Repairs.
I have a long list of my own speculative projects to complete such as a pair of
300 Watt monoblock amps, and a pair of very much reformed 40 Watt Quad-II amps.
These will become available for sale later this year.
There are a number of other things I wish to complete if I have time.
My future business should continue into the forseeable future.
I have no plans to retire or move away from Canberra and would like to continue to be useful.
My website is not only about promoting my repair services or sales of handcrafted
amplifiers for discerning audiophiles.
A large number of visitors to my website want useful information about design and construction
of tube operated amplifiers. Anyone with intelligence combined with determination may
design and build their own hi-fidelity audio systems if they study my own and other
websites in addition to studying many books written about electronics before 1960.
There is a lot of technical information attatched to the listed range of power amps
and pre-amplifiers and a number of pages about basic tube behaviour, tube use,
transformer design and behaviour, etc, especially in my listed pages at Educational and DIY.
I hope that my website helps the world understand tube operated amplifiers.
The daily download average rate of from my website is 110MB
and it has remained constant for the last 5 years.
A small percentage of visitors to my website have commissioned me to build amplifiers
which have a range of unique features in their design, and which are displayed in my pages.
Some visitors have
constructed superb audio systems of their
own basic design while augmenting
their knowledge at my website. I
enjoy
the friendships and regular emails to a number of
highly skilled
individuals and enjoy discussing the
technical issues involved at levels of greater
depth than can be
attained in any of the online discussion chat groups.
Regards to all,
Patrick Turner.
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