A hi-fi and vintage amplifier workshop in Singapore. Terence has been at the bench 16 years.
Message Terence on WhatsAppTwo recording studios are among his clients.
Intake sheet ↓Rebuilding a valve amplifier: capacitors and resistors replaced, bias set, valves matched and tested.
Hum, hiss, low output on one channel, drifting bias, an amp that has sat unused for years.
Chassis, power supply, output transformer, valve sockets.
A turntable service covers speed, bearing, belt or idler, tonearm alignment and tracking force.
Wow and flutter, wrong pitch, rumble through the bearing, a stylus that skates or mistracks.
Platter and bearing, motor and drive, tonearm, cartridge alignment.
Re-coning replaces the cone, surround and voice coil in a driver, then re-centres the coil in the magnet gap.
Perished foam surrounds, a rubbing or open voice coil, a torn cone, a driver gone silent.
Driver basket, cone and surround, voice coil, magnet gap.
Terence is reachable by phone. The intake sheet below is the written route.
Terence runs the bench. The workshop is in Singapore.
Until now he has been reachable only by phone. The intake sheet below is the written channel.
Go to the intake sheetFour things describe a repair. All four are things only the owner knows.
The manufacturer and the model number, off the rear panel or the badge. Circuits and drive units differ unit to unit.
Hum, one dead channel, crackle on the volume control, a rumble under the music, a burning smell. A plain description is more useful than a diagnosis.
Does it light up, does a fuse blow, does it come up and then cut out.
Previous servicing, replaced capacitors, a re-coning attempt, a modification.
Terence is reachable by phone. This is the written route — fill the sheet and it goes to him.
If you would rather type it out than fill a sheet, message the same number. Terence runs the bench.