Welcome
The past isn't done, it's just waiting for us to press play...
Follow me on my blog and YouTube channel as I restore vintage HiFi back to its former glory...
Services
​If your vintage HiFi is having trouble and needs some TLC I can help with the following,
Please note: apologies, due to a back log of restorations I'm currently unable to take on new work.
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On the Bench
Take a look at what I'm working on right now and follow its progress, or if it's something finished you're thinking of purchasing, take a look at what work has gone on to give it a solid second life.
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Contact
Please contact me if you have an enquiry about anything of intertest here, or if you prefer, send me an email to:
enquiries@audiorevivals.co.uk
About me
Ever since I was a small kid growing up in Cornwall I loved tinkering with anything that ran on electricity, and would enthusiastically take whatever I could apart to see how it worked; sometimes I even managed to put it back together! By the time I was a teenager I was retrieving empty cardboard boxes from the bin, and turning them inside out to house an amplifier I’d built from a kit.​​
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My curiosity and fascination never waned and in time I started designing my own simple circuits and making them from scratch using strip board and later actually making my own PCBs, I seemed particularly preoccupied with audio equipment perhaps because sound seemed like such an incredible sense and how this was reproduced in a HiFi was the stuff of magic to me.
In time I found myself fixing other people’s things, maybe someone’s washing machine, an amplifier or tape recorder and I soon realised my super power was being able to mend things! At school I took GCSE Micro-Electronics, my favourite lesson because I got to learn properly about what all those odd looking components were and how they worked together. That was always my favourite lesson, and would spend as much time there as possible.
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When I left school, I was lucky to have a local college nearby that ran an electronics servicing course, so spent the next two years studying City & Guilds 224 Electronic Servicing, and 236 Electrical Installations, which was an amazing time for me. When I completed the courses, my first job was as a Junior RF Service Engineer calibrating RF equipment. Not audio but radio was a great start! Eventually I ended up working in the growing field of IT which was a very different industry to work in compared today, where everything is a cloud based service you subscribe to. I miss the hands on work I used to do, which brings me to why I started Audio Revivals.
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For me Audio Revivals is about returning to that childhood dream of being a technician and fixing audio equipment. Of course the equipment I learnt to repair in the 80’s isn’t current now, but considered “Vintage”, but still seems to be in demand, so thankfully I still get to make that dream come true.