About Graham Slee Projects>>
A legal UK limited company
- a real home-based business with nothing to hide...
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GRAHAM SLEE PROJECTS LIMITED (Registered in England and Wales No.5637059)
Head Office:
1 Monks Way, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, S71 2JD
United Kingdom
As with all reputable businesses our street address information also
appears at the foot of the page.
Yorkshire-Built Quality Audio
The
County of Yorkshire in England has a long history of great
audio manufacturers: notable audio companies past and present include A.R. Sugden
(Connoisseur Turntables), J.E. Sugden (Amplifiers), Calrec Audio
(Mixing Desks), Audionics (Broadcast Audio), Sage Audio (Amplifier Modules) and Wharfedale (Loudspeakers
and Consumer Audio).
Perhaps it's because Yorkshire is such a musically rich and musically diverse county?
Brass Bands, Male Voice Choirs, Choral Societies, Folk Music, Rock and Pop: world famous 80's band Human League for example.
In 1989 Graham Slee Projects added its name to the Yorkshire tradition of
quality audio: manufacturing every piece of its own audio gear in its Yorkshire premises.
My own 37 year career background (time of writing 2009) has been in Yorkshire's engineering
industries, starting in heavy engineering, moving into AV, then PCB design and
manufacture, sub-contract electronics manufacturing, broadcast-audio equipment
design, freelance audio R&D and then Graham Slee Projects. I started designing
my own audio equipment, and in particular, phono preamps, in 1976 as a hobby
for disco use.
Yorkshire, England's largest county, having been stripped of its industrial
heart by successive UK governments still retains its ideals of down to earth
quality, value for money, and to always shine above the rest.
Audio Equipment Designed Built and Tested in Yorkshire
Most British, European and American audio equipment you come across these days
is of the "designed here - built over there variety". Not so with the company
I founded some 10 years ago. Admittedly it would be more profitable and I
would probably have paid my mortgage by now, but then again I don't think we'd
have been able to offer our customers the consistent high standards and
staggering audio performance we do given that scenario.
Quality control is everything and it's something you cannot do by remote
control.
We achieve our quality control because we are a small crew of three
time-served audio engineers making everything we sell (except third-party
plug-top power supplies) by hand - testing it in the time honoured tradition:
measuring every piece for the all important tell-tale signs revealed through
bandwidth, gain, noise and distortion measurements.
By hand made we mean exactly that: every board is hand soldered by experienced
hands - nothing is left to chance.
Component selection is another thing you cannot sub-out and expect everything
to run smooth - as I recently found when the company who supply our resistors
decided to out-source: "Those resistors are not right!" I protested, on
discovering a batch that didn't look like it belonged. Listening tests
confirmed a complete lack of decay on piano notes and a full investigation was
launched by yours truly the following day. The result was not a single piece
left our workshops until we had the right resistors, ensuring our customers
satisfaction. Would we have noticed by remote control?
Hit or Myth?
While on the subject of component selection, some people are quite amazed how
we turn a great performance out of seemingly ordinary components? What! No
Black Gates? No 0.01% resistors? No tank sized rupture inducing armour plated
enclosures packed with "specialist" audiovile components? Let me explain...
For some reason the western world gets off on "Babylonian Mythology" instead
of the truth. There are, and always have been in my lifetime, components of
excellence with no hype surrounding them. When placed in a well designed
circuit (of the kind we design) they outperform every single one of the
so-called "designer components", but what's more is they don't cost silly
prices, which means we can and do bring you incredible audio performance at a
price you can afford this lifetime!
As thousands of satisfied customers tell us "you should be shouting about your
products from the rooftops!" I guess the above will have to do.
Best wishes,
Graham Slee
