I really loved this tour. I applaud EveAnna for opening up her shop to the world and showing folks how things are really done. This was honest and real. What a great company.
currently shopping for a chinook Special edition mkii and it brought me here. This was indeed one of the best tours I've seen. tbh if I won the lottery I would move to chino and apply for a job here. would love to learn and build these types of components.
I love this. There is not enough of this type of profile of American businesses. Seeing the people at work should mitigate the price resistance that we've been taught.
Wonderful to have come across this ! As a young man in 1988? at the AES in NYC I was drawn to the VTL hall/cave for it was the only tube anything period. Few people understood anything that was not the new digital.Both EveAnna and David were gracious but only she knew I could not afford his tube book. At some point she said: David, just give him a book. And that was with a fresh honest spirit.I shared a elevator with Rupert but could not afford lunch; so thanks heaps. My original Massive Passive has performed flawlessly on tens of thousands of songs with only a few tube swaps; it cannot be duplicated for what it does. Amazing. thank you, chris griffin. griffin mastering, atlanta ga
As a musician AND a long time VTL fan, Manley has always been one of my fave companies. Love all my microphones, preamps, and amplifiers that I've ever gotten through them!
This was a great testament to the fact of the quality of raw material having such a positive influence on the final product and the associated cost of procuring that material that extends to the the mining out of the ground of it.
Wow, Holy Cow! What a cool place! And an interesting education watching this! Thank you for creating this video! EveAnna, Thanks for your hard work! Because of it, the world is hearing cool tunes.
Michael, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. I have heard of this company, but I really didn't know much about who they were or the products they had to offer. Thank you so much for spending your time at this company and sharing your experience with us. I will need to follow them more closely and perhaps purchase some of their gear in the future. Thank you. I also enjoyed the video of the Wilson Audio tour. Please continue these videos. I would like to see the same for Magnepan and Martin Logan. I realize you are visiting vendors which you own products or may have owned products in the past, but I would like to see more of these great videos and highlight some of these great US audio manufacturers. I recently toured the PS Audio shop, and I enjoy seeing how these companies operate. Keep these coming. THANK YOU
Wow! That was an impressively long, but impressively impressive vid, and I loved every second! I love the nerdy stuff about components and manufacturing methods. It’s also wonderful to see a company that pays that kind of attention to detail and quality and is made in the USA too. Thank you, Michael!
If I didn’t have Audio Research stuff, and loved it, I would have Manley, her stuff is well made. In an industry dominated by men, she is a stand out great stuff at great prices. Eva Manley exudes confidence and isn’t afraid to be different her haircut shows this, Eva has Swag in spades.
Yeah I jumped on Manley Chinook Special Edition from Upscale Audio and has been a one of my best sounding upgrades I made to my setup.. Technics SL-1200G -> Audio Technica Art 9 Cart -> Manley Chinook SE (silver) -> Yamaha A-S3000 (silver) -> Dynaudio Special Forty / Focal Utopias = Vinyl Heaven...
My favorite audio company - truly great sounding and so much attitude! I have two audio systems - one with Audio Research amps and line stage with Sonus Faber Amati Futura speakers, the other system is all Manley Labs. People that listen to both love the Manley's. They just do. They always say it makes them want to dance!
This is the best factory tour I've seen as it's totally access all areas and brilliant to see a genuine honest company,worth watching just to learn how tubes should be evaluated and a warning as to make sure sure you by from a trusted seller.
What an interesting and down to earth tour, with a very friendly hostess, God the Bridgeport milling machines brings back memories, spent 2 years on those (late 70's)
Why sure, some parts, like ICs, vacuum tubes, and so many passive parts are not made in the USA at all, however, if you look at the dollars in any given Manley unit, the majority of the money inside the unit will be American-sourced/American-spent. And the labor put into every unit is by American workers!
Freaking awesome video, please do more of these if you have the chance. I only wish I could own some of those fantastic hand built products. Brilliant!
Nice video. Good thing about Manley are the same standards for building audiophile and pro audio devices, even white cathode followers they use a lot are almost the same for both apps. One thing that differs from a few high end manufacturers is use of switching supplies, they probably added slow turn on for HT because tubes last longer this way.
1:13:28 Exactly - I'm actually surprised how open Manley labs are about this.. no-one that I know has done this, even though this is a simple design, it's still intellectual property shared for free...
1:18:30 So long as the switching frequency is high enough so that the dog won't hear the hum from it! Switching power supplies were just born to work with valve circuits: it's no surprise at all they work so well. Imagine all the cost of a linear valve power supply, more precisely a high voltage power supply, and then a smps that costs 20x or 30x less. Now think about putting some of the money saved back into the smps parts/design and try to guess how much better it will be than the linear ps it replaces.
Manley Labs still owns the Langevin marque. We have it sleeping at the moment as we wanted to dedicate all of our efforts to promoting Manley in the last few years. It was too much on us at the time to market more than one brand... but... "watch this space..."
I have a bunch of musician friends with home studios who swear by this kit. Ultra reliable and killer sound quality. As one said to me once, gear for life.
It is getting hard to find good parts these days. Where do you find a good volume pot ? I used to get parts from Michael Percy but I don't know what happened to him.
Building up a resistor ladder on a 24-position Grayhill switch is a great way to do it. Also there are still high end ALPS and NOBLE pots to be found out there.... Our newest gear will be using relay-switching resistor ladders controlled by a PIC microcontroller, easily remote controlled and yes you can offset one channel with code to make a balance function. We're trying to graduate out of the Olden Days!
That sounds like it should be better than the digital volume control chips. I tried one once and it wasn't good. The pot in my Audio Research preamp is a bit noisy but I guess I'll live with it. Deoxit made it better.
@@andershammer9307 if there is any DC on the pot for any reason, and it's a carbon-based substrate, you can totally get scratchy noises when turning the pot. That's why conductive plastic elements are my faves for potentiometers. We use BOURNS 91/92 series pots extensively in our products. They are reliable and always quiet. For decades!
Can you please not use a stereo microphone or knock the audio to mono? The beginning of the video is pretty much only on the left side of the spectrum.
@@AnalogPlanet Even if it did (it doesn't. It's up to the manufacturer to implement that in software, at least for Android), that unbalanced phase (too heavy to left or right) is distracting. The first few minutes of the video are 95% to the left of the spectrum. This is not bad audio, but many people will see it like it is. You don't have to switch to a mono mic, but at least either mix the sound dual mono or avoid spending too much time with audio on one side with nothing on the opposite side. This is the same reason why people don't like interviews where you have one person panned hard left and the other hard right.
Not gonna like that motion detection power switch, rather than a physical one on that prototype.. urrgh. Very interesting video. stayed through it even without a Steady Cam ** good on 'ya.
Hi manleylabs, My personal preference, along with experience shows me that those who purchase equipment of this caliber want the impression of solid reliability that's instilled in a mechanical switch, as opposed to the somewhat cool factor novelty of an inherently less reliable electronic type. Whether this perception is deserved or not, the motion sense main power switch just doesn't give the same confidence or satisfaction as that of a mechanical, physical type. :-)
1:02:33 I was actually wondering what was different about this video... I had not noticed till now. You don't need a Steadicam, just get one of these gimball holders and shoot with your iphone...
Fremer misses the point that Good stuff comes from good engineering and a lot of care. it is not about Analog vs Digital. Those are 125khz DIGITAL power supplies that are lighter and better not cheaper. And they do not interfere with the sound like the old transformer based supplies.
Good engineering and a lot of care is also not dependent on which nation it comes from. People usually diss stuff made overseas, but will not even bat an eye when high quality stuff comes from there.
You obviously brought to the tour all of your prejudices about me. I didn't bring any about switch mode power supplies nor did I use the word "digital" since switch mode power supplies are not digital. I have no idea what you are talking about. I asked the kinds of questions I always ask to get more information.
1:10:20 More like an Edison cylindre... Actually, cutting a vinyl record is far harder to calculate that winding a layer on a transformer and that's why a cutting computer is used together with the cutting lathe: the winding wire only has a single fixed diameter - the vinyl groove width varies constantly! (The transformer design itself of course is a different story.) What this machine does is nothing short of amazing: imagine laying 2000 turns of a wire as thick as a hair side by side, without any error, overlaps or gaps. Before these machines were made, this was done by hand: someone had to crank the spindle and guide the wire for thousands of turns per coil wound.
Cam guy. Don't interrupt! Treat factory, scratch that, all people with some deference man. Maybe cancel the bad humor. Now, what camera is that? The audio is really good.
LOL ......Eve Anna is so cool at 1:19:40.........yääh....this a new Prototyp of a pre Amp including the chinook phono......with this and that detailed circleboards in it........other company's wouldn't even tell you, what new product is coming next.......hell no.......they would kill you and put your dead body in the dumpster when you have seen only one detail for a secound ! I like the stealhead phono pre A LOT and thinking all the time about to buy it and combine it with the biggest integrated PrimaLuna amp from Kevin Deal. SADLY MANLEY DOESN'T OFFER ANY STEREO POWER AMPS.......only Monoblocks......that would break my bank. But when a new Manley Pre with the Chinook Phono Pre Board integrated comes out the year 2019, it could be a REALY good lower cost alternative, combined with the PrimaLuna Poweramp !!! Sadly I'm living in Germany, and PrimaLuna is difficult to get, because ordering it from K.D. doesn't make any sense, because I would have to pay nearly 27% Tax on the amp and shipping to Germany. DAMN IT...............BUT THIS WAS BY MANY MILES ONE OF YOUR MOST INFORMATIVE AND ENJOYABLE VID SINCE A LONG TIME Thank you very much indeed And Kevin Deal was right.....Eve Anna is a REALY COOL Chick 👍👍👍
Why don't they use KR audio tubes or do they, and getting them to manufacture tubes for them. Why don't they put the Transformers in cans to cut-out interference. I thought you would say it's Wired for Sound hahah
Would you have an email for her, I've got something she might be interested in a studio EMI I think microphone preamp may be the only one made what's a between the 40s and 50 or older. Nothing on EMI's website or Museum. I was told was made for Crystal Palace transmitter with power amplifier what I've got. I don't want to throw it away or get it thrown away, it should go to a good home she could reverse engineer it I believe it's only one of a kind made the serial number 000001.
NOS tubes are almost always better made than modern Russian or Chinese ones. The transformers are in cans. The mu-metal boxes that say Manley Iron on them.
@@gotham61 far as I know KR audio tubes are the best they're not Russian or Chinese they Czech, and no the main Transformers were not in cans only the little ones not sure why they wouldn't put them in cans
KR doesn't even make small signal tubes like those being discussed. Not do they make standard pentode and tetrode tubes like Manley uses in their power amps. Just various triodes like the 300b and 211 that aren't used in most Manley products. KR is a tiny company, way smaller than Manley.
gotham61 not to mention they are targeting the hifi audiophile market, more for those willing to buy a van den hul cable that costs as much as a massive passive. Yeah I’ve sold a third set of vdh cables. I got them for free. 4-8k for stereo pairs? Ach!!!
13:10 Subtle Apple plug in? "Works every day for 40+ years and still going strong" kind of thing? Apple computers still looked a cut above the rest even back then though. For sure, one could replicate this code into an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. Custom software of that era should be a piece of cake to de-compile and reverse engineer. But only if that would be legal. Perhaps, one could even add a couple of sensors to detect when the scribe is worn down etc. But at the end of the day, it's the engraving machine that's fairly low tech not the PC. On the other hand, it will never break. Interesting bit of PC history there.
1:08:47 Also TLA and Tsakiridis Devices in Greece wind their own transformers... TLA made some big 845 amps back a decade ago (so did Tsakiridis). Both have now stopped making those amps. Surely that's a serious hi-fi crime.. I'm sures there are others, Trafomatic Audio a well respected company in Serbia does, possibly Thrax in Bulgaria does too, etc. Of course Audio Note and Kondo still wind their own...
1:14:00 What's amazing here is Michael's attention span has never lasted this long (just measure the amount of time between jokes) - and while watching a coil being wound no less!
@Vox Daze I never said that. What I said was I embrace that the Molex crimping machine reps trained my assembly people in Spanish, their primary language, so that perfect understanding was achieved about how to use the machine. How dare you try to insinuate that the wonderful people who work at Manley Labs are "cheap" just because they are of Mexican descent. I love my employees and they are well paid, and enjoy full benefits, 401K plans, health care, and all that. We have all been working together for DECADES. We are like family.
manleylabs ps. Just like the triggered and often offended pc folks who constantly create conflict, the racism and violence they see everywhere is like a projection of their own assumptions and bad thoughts. It’s his view of your actions that reveals something about how he sees central and South Americans.
I've toured Manley Labs with the LAOC Audio Club and visited for a repair. In addition I've chatted with Eveanna at a few audio shows. From these personal experiences I will say she and the staff I met are truly dedicated, helpful, wonderful people. I fail to see what the ancestry of her employees has to do with anything when they are such knowledgable, contented (did you see how long some have worked there?) people. They care about the quality of what they build and that "family" bond is a major contributor to that.
Shaun Koreshowell/Bunds there are only a few people who are highly regarded for designing SMPS for high performance audio.. These are David Berning, that guy who designed the Trinity DAC, and Bruno Putzeys who designed the HV modules for EveAnna.. Maybe there are others but I don’t know them.
manleylabs ps: have you guys messed around with any elrog tubes? Or have you been keeping up with the new western electric... hopefully they are able to do better than Aspan pittmans handmedowns of the 6L6 assemblyline that led to the hyped up rch labs llc tube tease in Carson city and my subsequent 9 month depression from my best friend deciding to financially compromise me by stealing from my account when I had won my much sought after general radio tube bridge and so much equipment and materials for a mere three digit sum it was embarrassing. I’ve never heard an auctioneer so upset with the limited attendees, as things were won for little, and things they shouldn’t have had in the first place making it too gimicky when they should’ve focused on development of their actual tubes before worrying about tons of cryochambers and shit... and less robinair or actually harbor freight vacuum pumps... though the couple of rigs they had were more than adequate. That’s what happens when you think throwing money at something and haphazardly collecting all this great crap will make it work or have output. I swear, if I had not been screwed by my friend, I at least could’ve been as well off but better than glasslinger, but in the end I lost even the primaluna for only 20 bucks... I lay in the laundry basket with psychosis for days! I will never suffer logistic or financial lack of preparation again!!! One day in the next few years I hope to have my catching up done and don’t worry, I’m too mediocre for competition with yourselves: though I still need to find others in my age range with the same interest in extrapolation and praxis of many disciplines with the extreme aversion to the common nature of ostensible truths and especially the fulfillment of impetus by lip service, vicariously living through the plan over the execution. And with all that, I sure have accomplished a lot by saying all this tmi in a tangential barrage. I deserve a break! I’ll get to work tomorrow ;)
this was a mildly interesting tour narrated by the comedian only to be known as MIKEY. the HOSTess and docent was evie wo-manley. the tour was botched because it didn't show a shot of the LADIES room near the entrance. those microphone capsule modules were recycled headphone transducers (notice the use of my high tech terminology). it is of interest that the transformer wire spinner was spun an approximate number of turns guessed at by the spinner operator. i have been to the factory a couple of times for t-shirts and beer. my limited number of visits were limited by the sheer distance of the length of the 210 freeway. the location is so remote that it is not included in the Thomas Map Book. it took me three hours to watch the YT video because my forehead banged into the space bar (thereby pausing playback) during a couple of my apnea episodes. next time i will engage my CPAP machine. ...with love...hifitommy
EveAnna seems like a pretty cool woman, and she's obviously extremely knowledgeable. It's good to see a company like this be successful.
I really loved this tour. I applaud EveAnna for opening up her shop to the world and showing folks how things are really done. This was honest and real. What a great company.
Great tour - incredible - thank you! Now I know everything I need to start my own valve hifi company. I just need a couple of million and 50 years.
Wonderful tour. After all these years, EveAnna still has passion for their products and her company. I love that!
Fantastic tour. Thanks so much. EveAnna is such a cool person.
currently shopping for a chinook Special edition mkii and it brought me here. This was indeed one of the best tours I've seen. tbh if I won the lottery I would move to chino and apply for a job here. would love to learn and build these types of components.
I’ve been Mastering with Manley tube gear for over 20 years!
Great tour of Manley Labs - Thank You Eveanna For Giving us all such a fabulous walk-tough.
Max - Riley!!! Great to meet you at NAMM2019!
I love this. There is not enough of this type of profile of American businesses. Seeing the people at work should mitigate the price resistance that we've been taught.
This is really terrific. Thanks so much!
A great piece...EveAnna holds fast to great traditions in analog...build the parts is the way to go !!!
EveAnna is one of the coolest people in high end audio. And there are a LOT of cool people in that world! Thanks, Michael.
I really like her. Very down to Earth lady. Really good video. Thank you.
The best audiophile factory tour ever.... Manley Steelhead in the plan...
Wonderful to have come across this ! As a young man in 1988? at the AES in NYC I was drawn to the VTL hall/cave for it was the only tube anything period. Few people understood anything that was not the new digital.Both EveAnna and David were gracious but only she knew I could not afford his tube book. At some point she said: David, just give him a book. And that was with a fresh honest spirit.I shared a elevator with Rupert but could not afford lunch; so thanks heaps. My original Massive Passive has performed flawlessly on tens of thousands of songs with only a few tube swaps; it cannot be duplicated for what it does. Amazing. thank you, chris griffin. griffin mastering, atlanta ga
Awwww sweet for you to remember and thank you for reminding me! I wonder if that was the 1990 NAB show in Atlanta?
Wonderful show
Great video, Mr. Fremer. Thank you for uploading. What an incredible cool woman!!!
Its really cool that they let you come in and view all their special processes.
As a musician AND a long time VTL fan, Manley has always been one of my fave companies. Love all my microphones, preamps, and amplifiers that I've ever gotten through them!
I like these kind of companies, very nice.
Thanks for the great tour of Manley Labs.
I loved this video. Thanks
This was a great testament to the fact of the quality of raw material having such a positive influence on the final product and the associated cost of procuring that material that extends to the the mining out of the ground of it.
Wow, Holy Cow! What a cool place! And an interesting education watching this! Thank you for creating this video! EveAnna, Thanks for your hard work! Because of it, the world is hearing cool tunes.
Great tour and really nice looking products -
I loved this.
Michael,
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. I have heard of this company, but I really didn't know much about who they were or the products they had to offer. Thank you so much for spending your time at this company and sharing your experience with us. I will need to follow them more closely and perhaps purchase some of their gear in the future. Thank you. I also enjoyed the video of the Wilson Audio tour. Please continue these videos. I would like to see the same for Magnepan and Martin Logan. I realize you are visiting vendors which you own products or may have owned products in the past, but I would like to see more of these great videos and highlight some of these great US audio manufacturers. I recently toured the PS Audio shop, and I enjoy seeing how these companies operate. Keep these coming. THANK YOU
Wow! That was an impressively long, but impressively impressive vid, and I loved every second! I love the nerdy stuff about components and manufacturing methods. It’s also wonderful to see a company that pays that kind of attention to detail and quality and is made in the USA too.
Thank you, Michael!
If I didn’t have Audio Research stuff, and loved it, I would have Manley, her stuff is well made. In an industry dominated by men, she is a stand out great stuff at great prices. Eva Manley exudes confidence and isn’t afraid to be different her haircut shows this, Eva has Swag in spades.
Yeah I jumped on Manley Chinook Special Edition from Upscale Audio and has been a one of my best sounding upgrades I made to my setup.. Technics SL-1200G -> Audio Technica Art 9 Cart -> Manley Chinook SE (silver) -> Yamaha A-S3000 (silver) -> Dynaudio Special Forty / Focal Utopias = Vinyl Heaven...
did you get the mk1 or mk2 SE chinook? Have you tried rolling tubes with it?
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Fantastic factory and products. Great video too, thanks. Saludos desde Argentina.
nice! I just ordered a Manley Voxbox and loved seeing where its coming from and hearing the owner talk casually
My favorite audio company - truly great sounding and so much attitude! I have two audio systems - one with Audio Research amps and line stage with Sonus Faber Amati Futura speakers, the other system is all Manley Labs. People that listen to both love the Manley's. They just do. They always say it makes them want to dance!
Great video. Very cool to see what all goes into making the equip.
This is the best factory tour I've seen as it's totally access all areas and brilliant to see a genuine honest company,worth watching just to learn how tubes should be evaluated and a warning as to make sure sure you by from a trusted seller.
LOVE my Chinook, and my other Manley equipment!
What an interesting and down to earth tour, with a very friendly hostess, God the Bridgeport milling machines brings back memories, spent 2 years on those (late 70's)
EveAnna looks great. Manley pre’s and amps are some of the best around.
Thanks Micheal I enjoyed this factory tour - Very nice lady EveAnna stay sweet .
Another great video! Keep them coming. Cheers
Built a few point to point tube amps power supplies over the years Hobby. Nice video quality work. Thanks.
Another Awesome Video. 👍👍
"Chino, not China."
Should be their slogan.
No you didn't watch it some of the parts are made in China. Like the circuit board and the microphone foil
I could swear I just watched it. Hm.
@@johnsweda2999 I watched it, and yes. I know.
They have used "made in Chino not China" in some of their advertising
Why sure, some parts, like ICs, vacuum tubes, and so many passive parts are not made in the USA at all, however, if you look at the dollars in any given Manley unit, the majority of the money inside the unit will be American-sourced/American-spent. And the labor put into every unit is by American workers!
Freaking awesome video, please do more of these if you have the chance. I only wish I could own some of those fantastic hand built products. Brilliant!
Nice video. Good thing about Manley are the same standards for building audiophile and pro audio devices, even white cathode followers they use a lot are almost the same for both apps. One thing that differs from a few high end manufacturers is use of switching supplies, they probably added slow turn on for HT because tubes last longer this way.
1:13:28 Exactly - I'm actually surprised how open Manley labs are about this.. no-one that I know has done this, even though this is a simple design, it's still intellectual property shared for free...
Wow, very impressive video. Manley Labs makes awesome audio products right here in the USA.
Fantastic Video!
The Chinook sounds great ! What a great product, for a reasonable price. It beats phono preamplifiers at five times the price.
1:18:30 So long as the switching frequency is high enough so that the dog won't hear the hum from it!
Switching power supplies were just born to work with valve circuits: it's no surprise at all they work so well. Imagine all the cost of a linear valve power supply, more precisely a high voltage power supply, and then a smps that costs 20x or 30x less. Now think about putting some of the money saved back into the smps parts/design and try to guess how much better it will be than the linear ps it replaces.
She's the best!!! And the gear speaks for itself!!
REALLY interesting tour, maybe the best one so far.
EveAnna has a great personality.
Really cool Fremer.
I like my Dynakit ST-35 + I built it myself. I'm quite sure a Stingray will be here someday, that Manley stuff is created with love.
So cool to see that not every vintage USA made machine tool was melted down or crated up and moved to Mexico or China!
Love from Israel! in love with Snappers+JumboShrimp. EveAnna is a true Lady and professional.
Want that stingray amp 😍🎶🎶🎶🎶
Hi, thanks for the nice tour!
By the way: what's the story behind langevin - can someone comment?
Manley Labs still owns the Langevin marque. We have it sleeping at the moment as we wanted to dedicate all of our efforts to promoting Manley in the last few years. It was too much on us at the time to market more than one brand... but... "watch this space..."
Can eveanna tell me where she got her glasses, super nice.
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I have a bunch of musician friends with home studios who swear by this kit. Ultra reliable and killer sound quality. As one said to me once, gear for life.
1:16:48 Is this place full of Tannoy monitors or what?
Manley Labs.....Is.....Getting After It..!!!!.....Nice....
An interesting woman! She seems very highly qualified.
Very cool tour! Thanks and greetings from Russia!
It is getting hard to find good parts these days. Where do you find a good volume pot ? I used to get parts from Michael Percy but I don't know what happened to him.
Building up a resistor ladder on a 24-position Grayhill switch is a great way to do it. Also there are still high end ALPS and NOBLE pots to be found out there.... Our newest gear will be using relay-switching resistor ladders controlled by a PIC microcontroller, easily remote controlled and yes you can offset one channel with code to make a balance function. We're trying to graduate out of the Olden Days!
That sounds like it should be better than the digital volume control chips. I tried one once and it wasn't good. The pot in my Audio Research preamp is a bit noisy but I guess I'll live with it. Deoxit made it better.
Thanks for responding and I was wondering if you would use Caddock resistors for the ladder ?
@@andershammer9307 sure, why not? in our case, in our newest relay-switching ladders we will be using SMD resistors on the production build.
@@andershammer9307 if there is any DC on the pot for any reason, and it's a carbon-based substrate, you can totally get scratchy noises when turning the pot. That's why conductive plastic elements are my faves for potentiometers. We use BOURNS 91/92 series pots extensively in our products. They are reliable and always quiet. For decades!
That was an awesome video
I still have a Stingray with the golden faceplate. They should be rare I think? Sound is excellent on Alon Capri.
I Love her she is the coolest person ever !
Manley... quality stuff combined with cool looks. Valve technology too - what's not to want?
1:27:10 Did you mean "there's no valves in the London tube"?
what's this thing "call" you're talking about? Is there an app for that?
Put your phone into "telephonic mode" and give it a whirl! ☎️
Can you please not use a stereo microphone or knock the audio to mono? The beginning of the video is pretty much only on the left side of the spectrum.
People complained when I switched to mono microphone so I went back to stereo
@@AnalogPlanet The problem is when you spend too much time on one side of the stereo field and...Some people have phones with mono speakers.
CrimSun doesn’t the mono phone mix down the stereo????
@@AnalogPlanet Even if it did (it doesn't. It's up to the manufacturer to implement that in software, at least for Android), that unbalanced phase (too heavy to left or right) is distracting. The first few minutes of the video are 95% to the left of the spectrum. This is not bad audio, but many people will see it like it is. You don't have to switch to a mono mic, but at least either mix the sound dual mono or avoid spending too much time with audio on one side with nothing on the opposite side. This is the same reason why people don't like interviews where you have one person panned hard left and the other hard right.
Not gonna like that motion detection power switch, rather than a physical one on that prototype.. urrgh.
Very interesting video. stayed through it even without a Steady Cam ** good on 'ya.
Tell me why you won’t like the motion detector switch? We are in the middle of R&D on this product.
Hi manleylabs,
My personal preference, along with experience shows me that those who purchase equipment of this caliber want the impression of solid reliability that's instilled in a mechanical switch, as opposed to the somewhat cool factor novelty of an inherently less reliable electronic type. Whether this perception is deserved or not, the motion sense main power switch just doesn't give the same confidence or satisfaction as that of a mechanical, physical type. :-)
@@stevewayne1480 thanks for taking the time to let me know!
44:00 - It looks like he didn't set the resolution on his left monitor correctly! Planets are not OVAL!
Planets are spring-shaped
It seems that Manley uses Hovland Musicaps? Do they still exist?
deserteddrake we use MultiCaps a lot. Never used the Hovlands in production.
manleylabs ah, okay! I see - thanks for the information! 👍
Love this video! Ms. Manley .... you rock! 🤘🏽
1:02:33 I was actually wondering what was different about this video... I had not noticed till now. You don't need a Steadicam, just get one of these gimball holders and shoot with your iphone...
Fremer misses the point that Good stuff comes from good engineering and a lot of care. it is not about Analog vs Digital. Those are 125khz DIGITAL power supplies that are lighter and better not cheaper. And they do not interfere with the sound like the old transformer based supplies.
Good engineering and a lot of care is also not dependent on which nation it comes from. People usually diss stuff made overseas, but will not even bat an eye when high quality stuff comes from there.
You obviously brought to the tour all of your prejudices about me. I didn't bring any about switch mode power supplies nor did I use the word "digital" since switch mode power supplies are not digital. I have no idea what you are talking about. I asked the kinds of questions I always ask to get more information.
@@AnalogPlanet Throwing the P-word when someone is critical is a bit much. May kirchhoff's laws descend on you and keep you safe.
@@HermieDaddy given what he wrote versus what's on the video, it was either "prejudice" or "back on your meds". What would you suggest?
my last name is Manley, can I work there lol
1:10:20 More like an Edison cylindre... Actually, cutting a vinyl record is far harder to calculate that winding a layer on a transformer and that's why a cutting computer is used together with the cutting lathe: the winding wire only has a single fixed diameter - the vinyl groove width varies constantly! (The transformer design itself of course is a different story.)
What this machine does is nothing short of amazing: imagine laying 2000 turns of a wire as thick as a hair side by side, without any error, overlaps or gaps. Before these machines were made, this was done by hand: someone had to crank the spindle and guide the wire for thousands of turns per coil wound.
Does anyone know if the Ham swapmeet has still moved from chino to ckaremont ?
Last i heard, Claremont.... you'll have to conduct a Google search...
Wow, Rick Rosen shout out too!
Cam guy. Don't interrupt! Treat factory, scratch that, all people with some deference man.
Maybe cancel the bad humor.
Now, what camera is that? The audio is really good.
That headphone amp is a dream, one day...one day....
$4.5K, no thanks especially for something that ugly.
LOL ......Eve Anna is so cool at 1:19:40.........yääh....this a new Prototyp of a pre Amp including the chinook phono......with this and that detailed circleboards in it........other company's wouldn't even tell you, what new product is coming next.......hell no.......they would kill you and put your dead body in the dumpster when you have seen only one detail for a secound !
I like the stealhead phono pre A LOT and thinking all the time about to buy it and combine it with the biggest integrated PrimaLuna amp from Kevin Deal.
SADLY MANLEY DOESN'T OFFER ANY STEREO POWER AMPS.......only Monoblocks......that would break my bank.
But when a new Manley Pre with the Chinook Phono Pre Board integrated comes out the year 2019, it could be a REALY good lower cost alternative, combined with the PrimaLuna Poweramp !!!
Sadly I'm living in Germany, and PrimaLuna is difficult to get, because ordering it from K.D. doesn't make any sense, because I would have to pay nearly 27% Tax on the amp and shipping to Germany.
DAMN IT...............BUT THIS WAS BY MANY MILES ONE OF YOUR MOST INFORMATIVE AND ENJOYABLE VID SINCE A LONG TIME
Thank you very much indeed
And Kevin Deal was right.....Eve Anna is a REALY COOL Chick 👍👍👍
hicieron bien seguir con el bulbo...
yes...
16:19 You can make a font. It will cost you, or, if you have the time, you can make it yourself, but you can make one.
Why don't they use KR audio tubes or do they, and getting them to manufacture tubes for them. Why don't they put the Transformers in cans to cut-out interference.
I thought you would say it's Wired for Sound hahah
Would you have an email for her, I've got something she might be interested in a studio EMI I think microphone preamp may be the only one made what's a between the 40s and 50 or older. Nothing on EMI's website or Museum. I was told was made for Crystal Palace transmitter with power amplifier what I've got. I don't want to throw it away or get it thrown away, it should go to a good home she could reverse engineer it I believe it's only one of a kind made the serial number 000001.
NOS tubes are almost always better made than modern Russian or Chinese ones. The transformers are in cans. The mu-metal boxes that say Manley Iron on them.
@@gotham61 far as I know KR audio tubes are the best they're not Russian or Chinese they Czech, and no the main Transformers were not in cans only the little ones not sure why they wouldn't put them in cans
KR doesn't even make small signal tubes like those being discussed. Not do they make standard pentode and tetrode tubes like Manley uses in their power amps. Just various triodes like the 300b and 211 that aren't used in most Manley products. KR is a tiny company, way smaller than Manley.
gotham61 not to mention they are targeting the hifi audiophile market, more for those willing to buy a van den hul cable that costs as much as a massive passive. Yeah I’ve sold a third set of vdh cables. I got them for free. 4-8k for stereo pairs? Ach!!!
13:10 Subtle Apple plug in? "Works every day for 40+ years and still going strong" kind of thing? Apple computers still looked a cut above the rest even back then though.
For sure, one could replicate this code into an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. Custom software of that era should be a piece of cake to de-compile and reverse engineer. But only if that would be legal. Perhaps, one could even add a couple of sensors to detect when the scribe is worn down etc. But at the end of the day, it's the engraving machine that's fairly low tech not the PC. On the other hand, it will never break. Interesting bit of PC history there.
1:08:47 Also TLA and Tsakiridis Devices in Greece wind their own transformers... TLA made some big 845 amps back a decade ago (so did Tsakiridis). Both have now stopped making those amps. Surely that's a serious hi-fi crime..
I'm sures there are others, Trafomatic Audio a well respected company in Serbia does, possibly Thrax in Bulgaria does too, etc.
Of course Audio Note and Kondo still wind their own...
TOOO COOOL !!!
hicieron bien trensar el cable...
1:14:00 What's amazing here is Michael's attention span has never lasted this long (just measure the amount of time between jokes) - and while watching a coil being wound no less!
And yeah I’m always seeing them sell on eBay
Like test equipment or reference speakers
you forgot Tom Jones poster !!
This work should stay in Chino, not China said Trump! America first!!!!
@Vox Daze I never said that. What I said was I embrace that the Molex crimping machine reps trained my assembly people in Spanish, their primary language, so that perfect understanding was achieved about how to use the machine. How dare you try to insinuate that the wonderful people who work at Manley Labs are "cheap" just because they are of Mexican descent. I love my employees and they are well paid, and enjoy full benefits, 401K plans, health care, and all that. We have all been working together for DECADES. We are like family.
manleylabs I appreciated the way carvin tried to run as well. But he’s just being a troll. Don’t take it to heart.
manleylabs ps. Just like the triggered and often offended pc folks who constantly create conflict, the racism and violence they see everywhere is like a projection of their own assumptions and bad thoughts. It’s his view of your actions that reveals something about how he sees central and South Americans.
I've toured Manley Labs with the LAOC Audio Club and visited for a repair. In addition I've chatted with Eveanna at a few audio shows. From these personal experiences I will say she and the staff I met are truly dedicated, helpful, wonderful people. I fail to see what the ancestry of her employees has to do with anything when they are such knowledgable, contented (did you see how long some have worked there?) people. They care about the quality of what they build and that "family" bond is a major contributor to that.
Manley?? who said reality wasn't ironic and funny as hell-lololololol
As the late Bill hicks said "Is life too f**ckin' weird or what??"
Switching power supply... crazy
Input transformers rule???
Shaun Koreshowell/Bunds there are only a few people who are highly regarded for designing SMPS for high performance audio.. These are David Berning, that guy who designed the Trinity DAC, and Bruno Putzeys who designed the HV modules for EveAnna.. Maybe there are others but I don’t know them.
Crazy SUPERIOR! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
manleylabs for this particular circuit or would you even start extending such developments to single ended power triode circuits?
manleylabs ps: have you guys messed around with any elrog tubes? Or have you been keeping up with the new western electric... hopefully they are able to do better than Aspan pittmans handmedowns of the 6L6 assemblyline that led to the hyped up rch labs llc tube tease in Carson city and my subsequent 9 month depression from my best friend deciding to financially compromise me by stealing from my account when I had won my much sought after general radio tube bridge and so much equipment and materials for a mere three digit sum it was embarrassing. I’ve never heard an auctioneer so upset with the limited attendees, as things were won for little, and things they shouldn’t have had in the first place making it too gimicky when they should’ve focused on development of their actual tubes before worrying about tons of cryochambers and shit... and less robinair or actually harbor freight vacuum pumps... though the couple of rigs they had were more than adequate. That’s what happens when you think throwing money at something and haphazardly collecting all this great crap will make it work or have output. I swear, if I had not been screwed by my friend, I at least could’ve been as well off but better than glasslinger, but in the end I lost even the primaluna for only 20 bucks... I lay in the laundry basket with psychosis for days! I will never suffer logistic or financial lack of preparation again!!! One day in the next few years I hope to have my catching up done and don’t worry, I’m too mediocre for competition with yourselves: though I still need to find others in my age range with the same interest in extrapolation and praxis of many disciplines with the extreme aversion to the common nature of ostensible truths and especially the fulfillment of impetus by lip service, vicariously living through the plan over the execution. And with all that, I sure have accomplished a lot by saying all this tmi in a tangential barrage. I deserve a break! I’ll get to work tomorrow ;)
1:28:48 Someone beat Michael in his own game!
Eveanna has a good faceplate!
this was a mildly interesting tour narrated by the comedian only to be known as MIKEY. the HOSTess and docent was evie wo-manley. the tour was botched because it didn't show a shot of the LADIES room near the entrance. those microphone capsule modules were recycled headphone transducers (notice the use of my high tech terminology).
it is of interest that the transformer wire spinner was spun an approximate number of turns guessed at by the spinner operator.
i have been to the factory a couple of times for t-shirts and beer. my limited number of visits were limited by the sheer distance of the length of the 210 freeway. the location is so remote that it is not included in the Thomas Map Book.
it took me three hours to watch the YT video because my forehead banged into the space bar (thereby pausing playback) during a couple of my apnea episodes. next time i will engage my CPAP machine.
...with love...hifitommy