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Always been curious how those sounded. Maybe down the line. Worked a little more on the bench. Planed it down and cleaned up the rest. Applied the first coat of Tried and True.

When you solder the cable joints, make sure to cover the back side of the stators / dust covers with some paper to prevent any spatters from the solder / resin from melting through the dust covers. I just cut some circles and used a touch of masking tape. Just passing on some advise from our friendly Icelandic Stax guru Good luck!

Since you screwed this up so much, I recommend you just throw it all away and start over. Just consider this a practice run. Also, on an unrelated subject, I am doing research on the days peoples’ trash is picked up across Head-Case for a white paper I am writing. Please send me your address and pick-up day for my studies.

Yup, never solder close to electrostatic drivers without covering them with something solid as any flux splatter with go right through them.

I don't know that I'd call them hideous if you love stainless boxes...LOL HS

Gorgeous! Congrats.

Roubo would absolutely have approved of that bench! A thing of beauty.

Impressive to say the least!

Bit of progress here - managed to assemble the first board... Power transistors missing at the moment, I have to manufacture the aluminum angle for the heatsink first. Note to self: next time, use a more suitable footprint for the TO-92 transistors for soldering. The current style is really awful to solder. I needed extremely fine tip and magnification.

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Some similar experiences here,but microchip MSC750SMA170B instead. Was using it on my GRHVs, same issue when PSU was measuring normal under no load (both rail measured around 401V),but dropping to about -180V on B- and B+ also seems a bit off (about 391V) as powering carbon amp which is using now precious C2M100070D. Everything back to normal as I swapped microchip SiCs back to C2Ms... but I would continue trying any alternative option on GRHV.

I have got lots of fakes from little diode.... they are scum. I reported them to ebay telling ebay that the fakes could result in fire or electric shock ebay did absolutely NOTHING. I reported them to paypal... they did NOTHING. nikkoelec on ebay also sells fakes... took 3 months to get a refund. I even explained to the sellers how I determined they are fake. they showed zero interest in checking their stock... and continued to sell the same fake parts... I even purchased the same part from them over multiple months to prove they where continuing to sell known fake parts even after my returns... no one cares. one day someone is going to get hurt. its disgusting.

I decided on 3M DP100 epoxy.