kevin gilmore

surprisingly on something like a 727, the peaks are already clipped at moderate volumes. so this will let all the wonderful dynamics thru. and damaging you hearing, definitely.

max voltage swing is 4 x bias. so 580 x 4. the amp does loose about 20 volts of voltage swing, so 600 is a nice number. same voltage the koss uses. also the rating on the pnp transistor. could cut the voltage to 550v for a bit more margin.

power supply schematic updated. amp board updated. circlotronpsupdated.pdf kgsshvcarbonv6.1c3cs - CADCAM.ZIP

q12 is the current limit. so if the amp board shorts, at least the power supply will not explode. what do you want me to replace the pzta part with? remember 20+ma

definitely has enough power for that. 2400 volts peak to peak stator to stator at 25ma bias. only otl dc coupled solid state amplifier design that can do this.

and the power supply that goes with it. standard off the shelf antek transformers are $44. need 2 schematic fixed. kgsshv600vpower - CADCAM.ZIP circlotronpsupdated.pdf

i know that birgir has a new batch of megatrons, do not know if they are all sold or not has to deal with eu rules. soren is also making megatrons also has to deal with eu rules. headamp has amplifiers, dont think there is an export tariff so this might be a bargain. there is a guy in california that i cant remember who is doing custom megatrons.

So there is this manufacturer out there that puts a solid state otl electrostatic amplifier in the same box as a high output dynamic amplifier. For a whole host of reasons this just seems stupid. Instead of 1 thing well, lets do 2 things poorly. The first version of the woo audio did indeed use a single tube as a cathode follower into the same apex high voltage opamps. and boy did woo audio turn colors when this information surfaced. So they tripled down on the stupid this time. options include 1) all tube 6sn7 -- 300b -- transformer -- headphones 2) solid state -- headphones 3) 6sn7 -- solid state -- headphones at least that is what i think their advertising goo says. and whether they are lying this time. There are 4 different versions of an all tube megatron that you might want to consider instead.

so here is the latest version of the kgsshv-carbon with the c3m series parts including the current source. Good for up to +/-600v power supplies. board file updated. kgsshvcarbon600v.PDF kgsshvcarbonv6.1c3cs - CADCAM.ZIP

never expected thermal runaway because birgir has been selling the much higher power version and its completely stable. those particular resistors due to the heat really drift. like 10%. and in the wrong direction. with the resistors replaced by current sources its stable. so much easier to make really higher power things.

moar better. by a fair bit. i'm sure i can find a better cascade part. the battery is a dc to dc converter (4kv isolation rated) and is < $10. with suitable heatsinks bias should be about 25ma. the 30uf things are film caps. nothing i know of is smaller and rated at 1kv. mosfetout.PDF

it should be noted that with the 1700 volt output stage parts, its real easy to upgrade to +/-600 volt power supplies. going to need a much bigger box with heatsinks on both sides.

viva does the same shit wrapping various capacitors with wool of some kind.

better put a 300v zener across the output of the h11d

highly similar to hev70 sennheiser amp. and by that i mean n-channel fet as current source into another n-channel fet with grounded gate drive. sennheiser amp single high voltage + 600v. this amp +/-400v (initial guess on current way off) output device is infineon imw120r350m1 which has input capacitance of 3460pf. kind of high. there are better parts to use. like this one. C3M0900170D which has input capacitance of 202 pf. calculated output current is about 12.5ma and about 5 watts per heatsink. going to get fairly hot. mc33078 opamps perform very differently inverting and non-inverting. koss esp950 uses the same part in a very different way. much better ways of doing the unbalanced to balanced conversion. power supply about as basic and cheap as possible. the chinese will do this for less than $500. which means that this is infinitely better than the topping eha5. likely sounds better too.

if you take one of the cooper male and stick it into a real stax manufactured socket, you will find the fit extremely tight and you cant stick the plug all the way in. eventually the stax socket cracks. (queue steve) my document was created with a real stax plug (actually a few of them) and a very high resolution optical comparator. but 11.05 seems an odd number. Likely the original spec somewhere inside stax is 11.00 mm. makes the most sense. the optical comparator read everything out as X and Y which is why the conversion that should be perfect (to at least 4 digits) maybe not so perfect.

there are a couple of places that sell the same thing that are not ebay. circlotron power supply works fine for 700v, 800v etc.

was planning on using the teflon versions on ebay. but i think that ceramic one is exactly the same size.

no real reason to shrink the filament board, but go ahead and try. the output tube spacing is already at the minimum and that results in a specific board size. no reason for the filament board to be any smaller than that because all the holes need to line up. filament board stacks on the output board.

the power supply is clearly labeled as +350 and -350. so an absolute maximum of 1400 volts peak to peak stator to stator. which is 500vrms. not 630 vrms. the same as every stax amp with these power supplies. srmt1 all versions, srm717 srm727 etc. looks almost identical to the koss circuit with bipolar outputs replacing the mosfets. push pull. no idea of maximum output current. lots of opamps with huge amounts of feedback. if its cheap enough, might be worth it. probably not.

owning a z06 with a zr1 on order, i am more than happy with these results. z06 beating cars that are 3 times the price or more, seems pretty impressive. and driven by gm engineers. pretty sure a real race car driver would do quite a bit better.

chuck mangione dead at 84.

2sa1968 is in fact a PNP 900v. 2sc1968 is a 500mhz rf amplifier.

wow, you take off 2 hours to watch a movie and then all of this. if that class B output section could actually deliver 1 amp or more that is required for just about every single planar or ribbon then maybe it might actually perform correctly. but the opamp cannot possibly supply enough current to drive the output stage. all the feedback in the world won't help. and for real world loads R2 actually makes it worse. multiple feedback loops and it looks just like the squarewave of the nfca module. more like a stair step. something the AP cannot possibly measure. hint: look at the quad current dumper. class B output section. performs well within its power limit. all this to reduce the current capabilities of the power supply. all this to reduce the heat generated because the heatsinks are way to small. yes its a piece of unreliable garbage.

topping dx5ii schematic class B output stage. and they seem to be proud of this crap. discuss dx5ii.PDF