TVK Links

Denon's own online museum, alas only in japanese and alas, only with small images.

Diatone's surviving audio activity - loudspeakers, of course.
Setup in 2005 for apparently one 'speaker only, the DS-MA1, which cost... 2,000,000¥.

Marantz' own online museum, split into four sections, themselves leading to separate timelines.
Rather scant, alas.

Pioneer's japanese one-page section dedicated to the servicing of the EXCLUSIVE components.

Pioneer's mini-website dedicated to Pioneer loudspeakers, made for Pioneer's 2007 70th anniversary.

Once Marantz owner, still producing pro and semipro recording gear and distributing (in the US) Marantz' Professional lineups.

Mark's Sony database with more than 5700 models, more than 4800 images, 5200 prices, 22700 second hand prices.
Also in : Philips, Akai, Pioneer & Technics.

Frank's beautiful and rich website holds numerous cutom-made images of many components, japanese or european.

Also with "classics in movies" section, 3D paper models (!) and a Pinup section - if all webmasters were working like this, the Internet would be a much more interesting place !

"The Internet's premier source of dubious information on all kinds of hi-fi and audio equipment".
Seemingly not updated since long but very interesting for its 'Defunct audio companies" section.

Stig Carlsson, Sonab and the Ortho-Acoustic loudspeakers.

Dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Clairtone's history and (magnificent) surviving production.

An old 2003 japanese website dedicated to DAT, that great format now gone bust like anything with head drums and moving tape.
Parts of the website are now either not responding or end up on a 404, but the main section is still there.

At the same time a Museum and a Tech center due to the number of components covered and the in-depth technical descriptions posted.
You all know the site anyway :-)

Hi-Fi World's online reprints of vintage components reviews.
Sadly not continued (online) after 2002.
(I did loan David Price and Noel Keywood several images for more recent reviews : the brands themselves have nothing anymore ;-)

Reference website for all things Lansing, ALTEC and JBL.
Done by Don McRitchie, with the archives and the people who where there then.

Dirk's Micro website offers impossible-to-find repair parts for Micro turntables, tonearms and feet as well as links to three part makers in Germany (dustcovers, feet etc)

Europe's foremost Pioneer collector.
From 1950s tubed receivers to the SX-1980, SX-1280 & SX-1250 trio, the PLC-590, PLC-1700, CTF-1250 or HPM-150... you name it, Siamac has it !

Ricardo Mondaca's terribly impressive Technics collection : SB-10000, SV-P100, SL-P10, SE-A1, SB-M1Ss and then some !

The world's largest collection of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation CD players : more than 400 (!) all entirely restored with the original manuals.
Many many images showing everything, inside, outside, how to fix them, technical and parts descriptions. In french.

Groups histories and discographies from the 1978-1986 high time of the Brussels scene, with timelines added for the before and the after.
Arno, Luc Van Acker, Front 242, Won Ton Ton or the Neon Judgement - and many others !

Edie's first two albums with the Bohemains had a profound influence on me as an (ex-)musician. As a listener, these two albums, like those of the Nits, remain untouched by the passing of time.
Magnificent song & lyric writing, great musicianship.

Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady's website.
Formerly of Jefferson Airplane - my own favorite guitar player and my own favorite bass player. What a team !

Reviews of non-mainstream music, whether pop, rock or anythings in-betweens.
Pale Fountains, Anna Domino, Cocteau Twins, Mano Negra or the Ramones... a thousand and one intelligently written reviews, documented with detailed discographies.

Free streaming live concerts, poster repros, unreleased live concerts...
Made with the late Bill Graham's enormous 1960s-1970s archives of concerts and unreleased tapes.
All source material properly restored and (re)mastered.

Japanese repair shop for impossible-turned-possible full-tilt restorations.
Each repair is detailed with a very impressive quantity of large and detailed images, too.

Japanese audiophile page with a very impressive amount of components opened and dismantled and put back together to be reviewed and tested:)
Each component is detailed with a large amount detailed "nudie" images.

Japanese review/mods/repair website with illustrative detailed images covering the subject at hand, whether M-25, Exclusive C3, A-2000, TA-E88, C-200, SU-50A, K-05, L-D1, TA-8650, DTC-1500ES or DRAGON.

Use the google translation tools, read everything and spend some time. (you can always ask somebody to ge fetch a beer for you but nobody can read for you)

Head reconditioning, relapping, conversion kits...
Everything for your open-reel recorder, whether GX-4000DS or PCM-3348.

Repairs of consumer & broadcast DAT recorders and all of the variants based on helical-scan mechanisms : ADAT, DV/DVC-Pro, Betacam, S-VHS, Hi8 etc.

Maintenance and repair of tapes and related recorders.
How does your old Ampex 499 Grand Master stand the test of time ? How to setup APR-5000 heads for proper playback of a twisted tape ? What to do with old TriAcetate tapes or revive 1/2" tapes which suffered a flood ? It's all there.

Howard's reference website for the well-known (but rare) m a s t e r p i e c e of analogue sound reproduction.

Stefano's shop offerings are always all repaired and restored up to spec.

30-year old shop with two auditoriums, a big selection of quality 2nd-hand components and also a line of power-amplifiers - big, powerful and hand-made in Switzerland !

Fantastic tuner repairs and reviews with full-tilt measurements, ICs used, circuit explanations, schematics AND listening comments regarding the actual sound.
Many Sony tuners covered (ST-J and ST-S periods) but also 1970s and 1980s Pioneer, Onkyo, Denon, Kenwood, Accuphase and Yamaha. A must read.

A very large database of downloadable Kenwood schematics covering amplifiers, turntables, tuners, 'speakers - everything !
Supreme 1, KA-1000, L-07M, Model 700M, KA-4006, KD-500, PC-1200U, KL-777D, KX-700... you name it, it's there.

Tokyo Ko-On Denpa makes high-quality attenuators since the 1940s.
All Pioneer EXCLUSIVE components use TKD, Sony had them the TA-E1 and TA-ER1, Matsushita used a variant of the Type C in its SU-C7000, and so did Micro in its CL-M2DC and so did Denon in the r/p sections of some of its broadcast open-reel such as the DN-3602RG.
Best of the best.

Yosh's reference tonearm database : tonearm geometries, alignements, offset angles, null points, mathematical tracking points plus IEC / NAB / JIS / DIN record standards and equalizations.