Ken Betts is a retired electronics engineer who has a deeper knowledge of audio equipment than most. He built his entire system including turntable, arm and cartridge, CD player, preamp and power amp. He not only made his own speaker cabinets and finished them to a high standard but went right back to basics with […]
I suppose the story of the Brio-r starts back in 1992 when we used to frequent a used test equipment supplier based in Reading. These were the early days of the Rega electronics department and we had a limited budget for test equipment, so we would regularly scour the used test equipment suppliers for that […]
SME factory visit Tucked away in the small town of Steyning in West Sussex, England is the most inspiring factory in the hi-fi industry. Here is a late fifties building that has not been significantly changed since it was built by Alastair Robertson-Aikman (ARA) when SME (the Scale Model Equipment Company, as it was known) […]