Inspire Hi Fi

Inspire Hi Fi MANUFACTURE AND DIRECT SALES OF AUDIO EQUIPMENT

We managed to source a few original SME 3009 tonearms in superb condition. We are doing a small run of special edition F...
30/03/2020

We managed to source a few original SME 3009 tonearms in superb condition. We are doing a small run of special edition Force 10 Turntables on which to mount them ! here is the design I came up with. This one is in light American oak and we mounted a new Audio-Technica Europe ATOC9XEB Moving coil cartridge. Cost for one of these turntables with SME arm and cartridge will be around the £1450 mark.
An incredible package at the cost.
Robert
07932367555
[email protected]

Our best selling and award winning Thorens 160 upgrade package has just got even better. This was an old TD160 with thin...
28/03/2020

Our best selling and award winning Thorens 160 upgrade package has just got even better. This was an old TD160 with thin black conti board plinth and a grubby pitted platter etc etc
Transformed and re engineered with our full package and the new carbon fibre top plate, plus new 303 tonearm. Other parts of the upgrade include solid wood maple plinth, new Linn suspension / new Linn hinges and hinge brackets / new clear acrylic lid, and more
This newly re built one is for sale at a reduced cost £895 + cartridge
07932367555 for more info

We supplied and fitted this Ortofon Anna diamond cartridge from our partner Henley Audio to one of our newly built Linn ...
15/03/2020

We supplied and fitted this Ortofon Anna diamond cartridge from our partner Henley Audio to one of our newly built Linn Vivid X12 turntables, together with an amazing Origin Live Enterprise tonearm
Whilst the cartridge costs £7,250, when fitted to the supurb Origin live arm and on the specially manufactured Inspire X12 turntable, the sound was quite simply the best I have ever heard reproduced. Simpy mesmerising. Our customer was quite simply astonished

You may remember the Linn Sondek LP12 looking a little unloved which we rebuilt and upgraded a few weeks ago and posted ...
04/03/2020

You may remember the Linn Sondek LP12 looking a little unloved which we rebuilt and upgraded a few weeks ago and posted on here. Well the customer ordered from us a full system to enjoy his vinyl.

This is the package after we installed it in the customers house last week:

We recommended and demonstrated this superb system. Supplied from Henley Audio a Unison Research Simply Italy valve amplifier - paired with the Klpisch RP8000F speakers - a perfect match. The turntable together with an Audio-Technica Europe OC9 XSH cartridge installed in the Linn Ittok tonearm was sent through one of our favourite phono stages, the Lehmann Black Cube SE.
We installed all this into a Hi Fi Racks Podium Reference rack, and wow what a sound. The customer and myself stood in amazement at the sheer scale and emotion of the music being reproduced. The 12 watts per channel valve amplifier into the efficient Klpisch speakers was remarkable considering the overall cost. The synergy and impact of the full system was exceptional

And with all the recent work on sprung 70's and 80's turntables, here are 2 pics of one of our Super Monarch Direct Driv...
01/02/2020

And with all the recent work on sprung 70's and 80's turntables, here are 2 pics of one of our Super Monarch Direct Drive turntables installed in one of our customers house.
Finished in solid walnut / aluminium and Sheffield stainless steel ! The arm is our 12 inch X200 mk3.

On the theme of suspended chassis turntables, here are 2 Thorens 160 turntables both originated from the late 70's.First...
01/02/2020

On the theme of suspended chassis turntables, here are 2 Thorens 160 turntables both originated from the late 70's.
First 2 pics are are our new demo one, and finished in Cherry. Last 3 pics are a customer order, and finished in solid walnut, Both completed yesterday with our comprehensive award winning Thorens upgrade / rebuild products. The demo one also has our new top plate, and is in Walnut. Excuse the messy workshop table, its been a long and busy week !

Here we have 2 Idler drive turntables of the highest calibre. The Garrard 401 needed little attention apart from a test ...
26/01/2020

Here we have 2 Idler drive turntables of the highest calibre. The Garrard 401 needed little attention apart from a test and service, as it was near immaculate. We specially manufactured one of our Monarch style plinths for it, which is a combination of solid billet aluminium and solid woods. We fitted a used but stunning SMEV tonearm, and we had in stock a near mint Sugarno Koestu black cartridge (original boxes with arm and cartridge) In terms of both sound, looks and build, its hard to describe, the sound is up there with the very best.
The second idler drive is one of our award winning (Hi Fi News Outstanding award) Enigma turntables, extenisvley remanufactured from a Lenco gl75 finished in our superb Nightfire Red top plate with Maccasor Ebony finished plinth. We have matched it with a new Jelco 12 inch arm, and a new Denon 103R cartridge.
Both for sale - prices on application and PX available, - give us a call or email for further details!
Demo available
01246 268887 [email protected]

This Linn Sondek LP12 came to us to have the comprehensive Inspire Vivid upgrade package fitted. And wow what a mess it ...
25/01/2020

This Linn Sondek LP12 came to us to have the comprehensive Inspire Vivid upgrade package fitted. And wow what a mess it was - been stored somewhere damp for well over 20 years! and apart from being in a poor cosmetic state and with collapsed suspension etc, the power supply was oxidised and not working. No problem, we set to and brought it back to life with our award winning Vivid upgrade package. Which contains amongst other things, the Vivid subchassis and armboard / bottom baseboard and of course the superb Hercules power supply. We had some other work to do to on it during the rebuild, such as the Linn Ittok tonearm being refurbished and the platter being machined in our lathe to get rid of the oxidisation. Simple things like the springs etc were also replaced. The customer chose one of our Maple plinths. he also chose one of the new Audio-Technica Europe OC9XSH cartridges, with its shibata stylus, a perfect match for the Ittock arm. He collected it a couple of days ago. We had a listen in our demo room when he collected, and wow what a superb sound. He was very pleased😀

This Linn Sondek LP12 came to us in PX against one of our turntables. We rebuilt it with a Linn Magik subchassis and arm...
21/01/2020

This Linn Sondek LP12 came to us in PX against one of our turntables. We rebuilt it with a Linn Magik subchassis and armboard. The older Linn plinth was replaced with one of our solid walnut corner braced plinths. During the rebuild we fitted new Linn springs etc and a Linn Rigid base board. We paired it up with a superb and new Heed Obelisk off board PSU, supplied by are friends over in Hungary Heed Audio An Alphason Xenon tonearm finishes it off niceley. Sold to a customer in North Scotland who is making the trip down to our North Derbyshire premises tomorrow to collect

A customer from London wanted 3 of his old worn out turntables re manufacturing. He also wanted new tonearms and cartrid...
21/01/2020

A customer from London wanted 3 of his old worn out turntables re manufacturing. He also wanted new tonearms and cartridges fitting so he could listen to his 78,s and also mono pressings as well. The pictures show the finished products about to leave the workshop for my personal delivery to him down in London. 1st is his old lenco GL78 completely re machined / re built / painted etc. we fitted an SME 3009 and an Ortofon 2M 78 cartridge. The second is a Garrard 401 we totally refurbished and manufactured a special plinth in Light American Oak to take 2 tonearms, an Ortofon 12 inch TA210 with Ortofon SPU and a Rega 808 with Ortofon Cadenza Mono. The Thorens 160 was re built and fitted with an 808 arm and Ortofon 2M Bronze cartridge, all in a new Cherry plinth. All in all, a trio of turntables brought back to life with our help and of course fitted with products from Henley Audio
Our customer was as you can imagine, over the moon

A couple of our award wining upgraded turntables completed and leaving today. Seen here on one of the work benches is an...
18/11/2019

A couple of our award wining upgraded turntables completed and leaving today. Seen here on one of the work benches is an old LP12 wonderfully re built and including full Vivid upgrades and an 808 arm, and finished in solid wood Maple. The other is our 2 plinth Roksan Xerxes upgrade in Light American Oak - both customers opted for Ortofon Quintet cartridges, supplied by our friends at Henley Audio

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Inspire Hi Fi, Unit 7 Prospect House, Staveley
Chesterfield
S419

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Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
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