Talk Electronics Storm 2 Integrated

I saw one finishing on Ebay this morning so I googled it. Seems to be well regarded and is well built internally. If I’d been in the market for an amp, I’d have bid. I remember Kevin Edwards being at Exposures in the late 80s so I’d expect some similar traits.

I’d expect a sleeper bargain that is on a par with old and new Exposure ntegrateds.

Kevin was a co-partner in Cable Talk and when there was money in the bank, started Talk Electronics, all but bleeding the parent company dry. The decision was made to split in half, so Cable Talk went its separate way from the electronics side, which fortunately won a nice contract keeping it in business I understand - CT struggled on with sporadic supplies and eventually foundered as Chord Co. took all the Sevenoaks dealers as Black Rhodium took the Audio T's in the south at least, with plenty of stock available at high profit margins to boot. The amps were good clean fun I remember and a dealer I knew did tell me that Kevin had a hand in the similar looking Exposure products of the early noughties (I don't know about before or later than this).

The Talk amp should be huge fun, but I'd use a smooth interconnect or speaker cable Their own current Talk 3 is based on the Cable Talk 4.1 and Excel 4 but made up like the old thinner gauge CT Theatre 2 cable I think (very slightly spaced conductors and outer jacket in green)... A Klotz (Rega Couple type 1) interconnect is recommended, or the CT Reference 2 if you can find one (the Broadcast is too wild and the award winning £50 one of old - Monitor 2 -is too thick and warm).

I think so.

Makes sense I suppose. The old CT Concert 2 was a green hosepipe of a thing, 'SOUNDED' superb in a beefy large diameter cable kind of way, but the southern Sevenoaks dealers were into AV by the early noughties and they were selling QED Micro as a serious speaker cable at the time and who cares about the lost bass and so on... The Sevenoaks in Guildford was more assertive, telling customers the hosepipe cable was a proper serious cable and selling quantities of it as a result.

Have the Storm 2 here. Nice looking amp, very sleek.

One little problem. I'm hearing slight buzz coming through the speakers. Its there constantly, not linked with the volume. Happens on all inputs. Going to leave the Storm run for 24 hours and see if anything changes. The seller has been informed.

S.

Going to visit a mate this coming Saturday. He's happy to take a look at it. Could be simple fix. If that's not the case, well the damn thing will get thrown back to the vendor.

S.