New Budget King from Lake District

[Jasonovich]

Love the Lake District and love this new integrated from British Start Up - Fell. Only £599!
Those green light buttons, sort of reminiscent eccentric British products from yester Year.

Have you seen any budget gems lately?

View: https://youtu.be/EVDLfJP9H6I?si=V8AzDvP4sFzVHJVd

 

[Al ears]

Love the Lake District and love this new integrated from British Start Up - Fell. Only £599!
Those green light buttons, sort of reminiscent eccentric British products from yester Year.

Have you seen any budget gems lately?

View: https://youtu.be/EVDLfJP9H6I?si=V8AzDvP4sFzVHJVd

Their £499 CD player looks the part too. Matching Streamer also on the way

 

[RTHerringbone]

It's a very photogenic set of products with impressive specs and sadly hard-to-audition credentials for those based down South. I'm interested to see some reviews and hear some opinions once these things are out in numbers in the wilds.

One thing that faintly amuses me is the blurb for the Amp, which boasts "the Fell Amp benefits from the brilliant ESS Sabre ES9018K2M chip. Normally found in products priced in the thousands (and rarely found at the Fell Amp's price point), Fell Audio’s designers really are spoiling the ears!"

I then Googled said chip, and they have a unit cost of under £12 including VAT 🤔😆 What am I missing?!

Either way, the specifications and connectivity of this kit and then some of the bundles at Peter Tyson are appealing, that's for sure.

 

[Jasonovich]

Their £499 CD player looks the part too. Matching Streamer also on the way

All designed in house by the Tyson family - aka Peter Tyson and brothers. It appears they do more than just sell HiFi.
I have been all about Chi-Fi lately, particularly the budget end like Fosi, AIYIMA, SMSL and et'al but its really great a small British manufacturer can address this and make something better. I really hope these sell like hot cakes 🙂

 

[Al ears]

All designed in house by the Tyson family - aka Peter Tyson and brothers. It appears they do more than just sell HiFi.
I have been all about Chi-Fi lately, particularly the budget end like Fosi, AIYIMA, SMSL and et'al but its really great a small British manufacturer can address this and make something better. I really hope these sell like hot cakes 🙂

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Agree.
They should do at those prices.
Just a pity the CD player isn't a top loader.

 

[ToppingSMSL]

It's a very photogenic set of products with impressive specs and sadly hard-to-audition credentials for those based down South. I'm interested to see some reviews and hear some opinions once these things are out in numbers in the wilds.

One thing that faintly amuses me is the blurb for the Amp, which boasts "the Fell Amp benefits from the brilliant ESS Sabre ES9018K2M chip. Normally found in products priced in the thousands (and rarely found at the Fell Amp's price point), Fell Audio’s designers really are spoiling the ears!"

I then Googled said chip, and they have a unit cost of under £12 including VAT 🤔😆 What am I missing?!

Either way, the specifications and connectivity of this kit and then some of the bundles at Peter Tyson are appealing, that's for sure.

ESS9018K2M is a DAC chip so the amp has a built in DAC. It's not the latest model if ESS DAC chip either. Just marketing fluff.

 

[Gray]

There's a review of amp and CDP on AV Forums - together with mixed opinions on the looks in the accompanying forum discussion.

(The audio reviewer over there seems to be generally the most busy reviewer of theirs).

 

[Jasonovich]

There's a review of amp and CDP on AV Forums - together with mixed opinions on the looks in the accompanying forum discussion.

(The audio reviewer over there seems to be generally the most busy reviewer of theirs).

Thanks for the heads up.
I actually like the NAIM'esque look. Not a boring box.

 

[daytona600]

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We do make the best if you have £250,000
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[Cricketbat70]

I stumbled across these a few weeks ago on the web and now whenever I'm on the WFH website the side banner is full of adverts for Fell. If I had the funds I would be tempted.

 

[nopiano]

I then Googled said chip, and they have a unit cost of under £12 including VAT 🤔😆 What am I missing?!

Perhaps that DAC chips aren’t expensive, generally. And any manufacturer buying a few thousand will pay less. The challenge is designing the right circuitry to elicit best performance, and a good analogue output.

I certainly don’t expect to hear differences between chips, especially if you look at specs where noise and distortion are vanishingly low.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

with mixed opinions on the looks in the accompanying forum discussion.

I think I can see why - beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I'm not seeing it myself.

 

[matthewpianist]

I've encountered these, though not had chance to listen. They feel solid and the design looks better in the flesh than in the marketing. There's a review of the amp in the latest HFC, which overall marks it out as a recommendation but the undertone is of it being par for the course around its price-point in terms of sound, which is far enough. I hope they do well.

 

[RoA]

I like the looks, very distinctive. It's like Rega and Naim had a love child.

Can't be very substantial though as it weighs 6kg only. A Brio is almost as hefty.

What is interesting is that they have not chosen the SMPS way but a linear one which is more expensive and perhaps better.

 

[davidf]

I've encountered these, though not had chance to listen. They feel solid and the design looks better in the flesh than in the marketing. There's a review of the amp in the latest HFC, which overall marks it out as a recommendation but the undertone is of it being par for the course around its price-point in terms of sound, which is far enough. I hope they do well.

I doubt it needs to be the best at the price - as there's a huge amount of choice in the price range, my mind feels it's more an exercise in "we've got something you haven't got", and creating click-to-buy online packages that no one else will have.

 

[Al ears]

I doubt it needs to be the best at the price - as there's a huge amount of choice in the price range, my mind feels it's more an exercise in "we've got something you haven't got", and creating click-to-buy online packages that no one else will have.

A bit like Cambridge and Richer Sounds?

 

[matthewpianist]

I doubt it needs to be the best at the price - as there's a huge amount of choice in the price range, my mind feels it's more an exercise in "we've got something you haven't got", and creating click-to-buy online packages that no one else will have.

I think the best at the price (IMHO) was the Rega Brio, and sadly that's no more.

 

[Jasonovich]

A bit like Cambridge and Richer Sounds?

There you go!

Fell Audio | Peter Tyson

Peter Tyson Audio & Visual Online - Hi-Fi and AV retailers.

petertyson.co.uk

 

[manicm]

A bit like Cambridge and Richer Sounds?

Not quite, the Tyson family from Peter Tyson retailers have developed this brand. The two Tyson brothers developed and designed the amp over a 3 year period. So it's their own in-house brand as opposed to just being an exclusive distributor.

 

[manicm]

I like the looks, very distinctive. It's like Rega and Naim had a love child.

Can't be very substantial though as it weighs 6kg only. A Brio is almost as hefty.

What is interesting is that they have not chosen the SMPS way but a linear one which is more expensive and perhaps better.

It weighs less probably because it's Class D. The HiFi Rose 280 Class D amp, which is immensely powerful, only weighs around 7kg.

 

[Al ears]

Not quite, the Tyson family from Peter Tyson retailers have developed this brand. The two Tyson brothers developed and designed the amp over a 3 year period. So it's their own in-house brand as opposed to just being an exclusive distributor.

Not quite, the Tyson family from Peter Tyson retailers have developed this brand. The two Tyson brothers developed and designed the amp over a 3 year period. So it's their own in-house brand as opposed to just being an exclusive distributor.

True but irrelevant.
I was responding to the quote "we've got something you haven't got"

 

[Al ears]

It weighs less probably because it's Class D. The HiFi Rose 280 Class D amp, which is immensely powerful, only weighs around 7kg.

i agree, weight and rigidity have nothing in common really. Most of the weight in amplifiers comes from massive toroidal power supplies.

 

[DougK1]

It weighs less probably because it's Class D. The HiFi Rose 280 Class D amp, which is immensely powerful, only weighs around 7kg.

Dunno about that, my amp is Class D and weighs nearly 16kg, so does the matching CDP 🙂

 

[manicm]

True but irrelevant.
I was responding to the quote "we've got something you haven't got"

There's nothing stopping them from sourcing it to other retailers though, after all they named it Fell Audio.

 

[Jasonovich]

There's nothing stopping them from sourcing it to other retailers though, after all they named it Fell Audio.

I believe they mentioned other retailers but didn't mention their names.