Hello!
Still a busy and difficult time here but I have caught up on e-mails and am back doing things again. Bit behind though......
I have had a few delivery snags turn up - the worst of which is OCC copper wire. S&B was making a batch when I left for the UK and it turns out they ran out of OCC copper magnet wire just a few trannies into the bacth. This was a surprise as I'd thought I had a lifetime supply of that stuff! Then Neotech (who I get the wire from) were away for a week so I am just now getting a handle on the wire delivery - which looks like about 3 to 4 weeks. That puts the next batch of copper OCC trannies 4 weeks or so from now. These are trannies I had planned for delivery from S&B a month ago! Just about the last thing that I wanted right now. Very sorry for those waiting for delivery to have this delay things even further - I hate making folks wait for stuff! We can make trannies with standard wire anytime and they are fine sounding so if you are in a hurry don't hesitate to e-mail and I'll get them made up.
More wire news (but better this time) is that I finally have silver wire to S&B and they are starting a batch of silver TX102's now. This will be the first MK III batch of silvers so it'll be fun to compare to MK III copper. I'll have them here in a week and a bit from now so finally will be able to take care of the orders for silver.
This special wire is going to drive me insane......
I will place an additional couple posts today about MK III version details and also 10K RIAA's.
Thansk!
John Chapman
www.bentaudio.com
