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About Read Research

With over fourteen years experience of designing and building audio equipment, and an appreciation of production techniques and CE certification, Read Research can be trusted to deliver the goods. Sometimes it's hard to get hold of decent designs that use parts that are easily available and affordable to hobbyists and small run builders in the UK. I hope to change that. My aim is to provide this community with resources for their own high-quality audio equipment. Audio equipment that is soundly engineered and high performing, using commonly available, value for money quality industrial parts and single-sided, novice-friendly boards.

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I support the TurnMeUp! campaign to bring the dynamics back to recorded music.

Latest News

24-Jan-2010: Picked up some meaty IGBTs in the CPC sale, plan is to scale up the 160W n-channel MOSFET amplifier into a 200W sub-woofer amp using just a pair of these devices.

10-May-2010: Finally got round to desoldering the IRFP250 MOSFETs and dropping the IGBTs into my 160W n-channel MOSFET power amp as a quick test to see how they fared in a known design. Initial results seem promising, listening to it in the background right now!

13-May-2010: The IGBTs are doing so well that I've started redesigning the PCB, making it more compact and upgrading some of the components. It's definitely a lot more than a sub amp.

30-May-2010: Added my component library for Sprint-Layout PCB software to the Utilities section.

Plan for the coming weeks is to convert the PDF info into normal web pages, speaker testing guide has now been converted.

The PCB milling machine project will be delayed whilst my garage is converted, ETA September. This will allow me to start selling boards made to order with quick turnaround and at a low price. I am also considering making boards to customer supplied layouts and small parts such as front and rear panels.