Clean Machines

This photograph is enough to make those who know anything about hi-fi equipment cover their heads with their arms and go catatonic for a day or two. It was taken by a Herald reader and shows the inside of an amplifier he bought second-hand.

Design First For Student

A WIRELESS amplifier that can broadcast electrical signals from the brain, muscles and heart has been developed by a University of Newcastle student.

Mixed Signals

Hybrids are almost always exotic, whether they're flowering plants or hi-fi components. Vincent's new SV-236 integrated amplifier is a dual hybrid - it combines two very different technologies, the thermionic valve and the solid-state transistor, and is built in China to a German design commissioned by a Swiss company.