kevin gilmore

I used lemo's... But I have a whole box of them from scrapping very expensive and old mass-specs. And all the new ones still use the same parts, so I will have a supply of lemo's for a long time.

I will take a picture later Revelation Audio Labs 'Passage' CryoSilver Reference Umbilical Power Cable Handcrafted in Palm Coast, FL, USA

yes those fucking incompetent morons. After over 30 minutes of attacking it with an xacto knife, this http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dsc_0510.jpg gardenhose and glue here are 2 more. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dsc_0511.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dsc_0512.jpg 2 of the wires are not even fully soldered. and does anyone really think this is 99.999% pure silver. there is no such thing. This is a $700 cable... but wait, there is even more http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dsc_0513.jpg there is white shit leaking out of the hose inside the connector. Its talcum powder or some such crap. probably why they tried to fill the ends of the gardenhose with industrial strength glue, which since it does not bend with the cable (like rtv would) ends up cracking and leaking out the powder. WHAT THE FUCK... they really must have hired Patrick to make this crap. speaking of which, his latest website is quite funny.

andy built a diyT2 as his first electronics project ever. (although he seems to have divine help on this stuff) Getting the old caps out is not as easy as you might think, the circuit boards are crap and if you don't already know how to solder, best to have someone else do it and watch. And yes the voltages in the thing (+ and - 350V) and the energy stored in those caps is not something to take lightly.

I actually figured out what the morons did to the cable, and what transistor popped because of their stupidity before the thing actually showed up. So other than taking it apart, the repair was easy. And while I was at it, 4 of the blackgate caps in the power supply were replaced with 35v versions instead of the 25v versions running at 34V which Mikhail stuffed in there. Pictures later as I take the cable apart. I get to listen this weekend to the real thing vs the klone. Its a rough job, but someone has to do it

WARNING to any one that would even think of buying a Revelation Audio Labs power supply to amplifier cable for a real krell ksa5. These fucking morons can't even wire a simple cable and get the pins in the right order. Tom found this out when his ksa5 blew up. So its sitting on my lab bench, and about 3 hours of repair time to repair the damage. And tom was very lucky, it could have been worse. Ended up with -21 on the +21 line and vice versa. Without the protection diodes, very bad things would have happened. Waiting for tom to give me permission to rip the cable apart and see how bad the assembly job is. Shades of coconut audio with blobs of modeling clay.

yep mine is a paperweight too, sits on my desk. But as it was completely fucked over by hennyo dripping solder into the insides of the thing, i took it apart to fix it. I did fix it. But i will never use it because it will not stay fixed. Great idea, poor execution.

those resistors on the khozmo are supposed to be there. they are also supposed to be caddok resistors, not what is shown. they are the shunt resistors to ground and control the output impedance of the pot. a lower impedance pot is always better for noise. As long as your source can drive it.

the khozmo's can be fixed but you have to take them completely apart and realign all the wipers for position and pressure. plus fix any bad solder joints which there are usually a few of.

you do realize that there is no way you are going to get everything in one chassis... amp board is 254 x 191 mm original power supply board 150 x 98 mm

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what chassis is that, and what is the internal size especially height.

for one thing, low voltages. for another, lots and lots of standing current. at least an ampere. his newest stuff is silicon carbide jfets for the output. Very different devices from mosfets.

mosfets are wonderful... in power supplies that is. unless your name is nelson pass.

And that picture is missing all the output transistors. I wonder why?

Schiit posted pictures of the Ragnarok. Really nice stuff. Obviously built to be repairable. And a layout that makes sense. Cavalli pictures... even ones the size Schitt posted... Never going to happen.

This! but a fair bit of this is deliberate to continue to sell more of the same crap. First LLmk1. Then LLmk2 which is the same on the inside with a horrible SE to balanced converter, and a pretty new box. Then the LLmk3 which has tubes in the gain stage (which is a huge improvement over the fucking mosfet) But still alex has mosfets shoved so far up his ass, he can't see how wrong they are for this application. But when you design with strictly a voltmeter, this is what you get. Alex is likely a nice guy. Or forces his persona to act like a nice guy. His biggest problem is his 2 main shills. One of which has designed the liquid glass for sure. There is absolutely no way in hell that alex designed the power supply in the LLmk1. Just not his style. Compare to everything he has released previously. And the stuff really is non-repairable. The LAU is a perfect example. once you install the output transistors and then solder them in from the top, just the task of getting the circuit board (which is in one piece) out for repairs without damaging something is very hard.

.062 is fine, that's what the current ones are.

may need to be as high as 200 ohms. what is happening is that its oscillating with a zero impedance input. Same thing a buf634 does.

Www.pcbnet.com amp board is 10 x 7.5 inches 609 holes 10 boards from pcbnet.com would be $425 3 oz copper

All board files are available if you want t have boards made

put 100 ohms on the output of the pot to the amplifier.

When you are trying to sell a used 20 year old amp for $5k what do you Expect. It is a great amp but not for very low sensitivity headphones

what? I can't answer 2 things in one post? yeah multiquote, but i'm lazy.

10 lb dog and brushing teeth... Usually requires 3 people. The dog usually wins. The rubber thing with the spikes that you put on your finger seems to do the best job and the dog does not fight as much. especially if you use really sweet toothpaste.