My father painted many paintings, which he stored in a drawer. I thought it would be nice to frame some of them and put them for display on the wall so people could see them. So I started looking for frames, but I could not find any frame that would fit. The problem is that my father would just paint on a random piece of carton, not a standard size that would fit any standard frame for sale and none the same size.

Recently I bought and assembled a Elekit TU-8500 preamplifier which impressed me enough to try another Elekit kit. This time i built the Elekit TU-8200 power amplifier. Then I had finished assembling the kit and tested it I had no sound in the left channel. After some fault finding I found a missing soldering. After I corrected the missing soldering the kit worked great. It is a beautiful and great sounding amplifier.

I bought a used record player, Pro-Ject Debut Carbon, but it was without a RIAA stage so I needed a RIAA stage. Also my power amplifier at that time had just a single input and no volume control, so I wanted to be able to select between different inputs and have a volume control. I therefore decided to make a preamplifier. Since I recently had started reading about vacuum tubes I wanted to build one with vacuum tubes.