With luck things will pick up now this first big review is out I feel bad for not keeping in touch with you better. After the show it would be good to meet up. I still haven't seen your 'new' place!
Mr. Cat & SMEagol,
Hi-Fi+ have been really brilliant to me. Originally they were going to publish it as a 'smorgasbord' article but once they heard the speakers they wanted to make it a full review. They made it all happen really quickly too, I only sent the review pairs off back in Feb. They have not badgered me for taking out advertising, or even asked me to purchase the review (rights to reproduce it, not paying them to publish it ). Alan Sircom did however suggest that I might want to give the review pair away as a competition prize - so keep an eye open in the next issue and you might win a pair!
He's gone awol - probably out for a well earned celebratory drink
Yes, they are hand made and finished in Gravesend and that includes everything except the drivers, though the latter are modified by Audiosmile. There is no external cabinet maker - the raw materials are cut, prepared and finished in-house.
Yes sorry I have been very busy too - I will be moving hopefully next month to somewhere south of london outside the m25. Maybe catch up after I am moved in?