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KG Balanced Dynahi build discussion thread
kevin gilmore replied to Vortex's topic in Do It Yourself
are you using a se input or a balanced input? last time I checked, it was supposed to work all 4 ways. -
fixed silkscreen http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/ksa5psorig.zip
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original version was cascading zeners. which is not really fully regulated, but has been evaluated to be ultra quiet, noise levels in the 50's of nanovolts. the second version is fully regulated, but may or may not be as quiet. krell produced both versions. the first version with lower voltage zeners is suitable for the squarewave. the second version you would have to change 2 resistors.
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yes that is black and white ebony. amboyna burl incoming red mallee pic posted in kgsshv thread
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zebrawood is something different. https://www.cookwoods.com/lumber-site/shop/category/wood-by-species/
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the squarewave boards are single channel. you need 2 for stereo, 4 for balanced
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actually I was thinking the singlepower klone.
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Typically those things are at least 500 acoustic milliwatts or more. Very fucking loud.
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What's the sensivity? May have the perfect amplifier
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The inside piece and the blind alignment and the hole smaller than the 4-40 set screw are loads of fun. Have to indicate everything to .0001 hole in the wood only .045 just barely big enough for the allen key.
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http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/knobs4.jpg
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introducing the .... KNOB OF BIRGIR http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/knobs4.jpg only my second absolutely perfect ebony knob out of piles of ebony. birgir's birthday present for his ecp L2. and a black and white ebony blank from a very overpriced 3 x 3 x 12 piece of ebony guaranteed no cracks with 2 actual cracks, and which I will be able to make no more than 4 knobs out of.
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that he could do himself.
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I am going to make a rare appearance at work tomorrow to finish The big guys birthdays present
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well if you already start on the floor you have less far to fall when you get knocked on your ass if you make the mistake of touching any of the high voltage wires
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shrunk kgsshv power supply board available to anyone that wants them, but lil-knight has them so boards will be available from him.
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http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/knobs2.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/knobs3.jpg finished Arizona desert ironwood knob and Hawaii burl red mallee blank with interesting voids
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KG Balanced Dynahi build discussion thread
kevin gilmore replied to Vortex's topic in Do It Yourself
if its the original version of the power supply board, take out the current limit transistors on the power supply board for both the positive and negative supplies. -
Well he did do the Liquid Lightning. More correctly he ripped off the stax srm323 and used mosfets for the output stage. But alex will say that all circuits look the same after a while. I doubt the Liquid Glass is that complicated. Alex calls it a mu gain stage. completely open loop. capacitor coupled to a mosfet output buffer. a single tube with a pair of triodes per channel. no matter how hard you try to match the two tubes you get channel gain differences. I'm sure the liquid gold schematics will show up eventually. People will be in shock and awe of its greatness.
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Mikhail did star grounds like that!
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actually you forgot that ray also owns a GTR and he is in the process of buying a new ferarri F12 evidently they are not easy to purchase even if you do have the money.
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how much feedback? Generally the more feedback the more transient intermodulation distortion. There is always group delay. 10 to 15 db of feedback is a good thing. 30 to 40 db of feedback is usually a bad thing.
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From the cavalli web page and stuff cavalli has said maximum power 9 watts into 50 ohms absolutely every solid state otl amplifier I know of with a reasonable power supply increases its output power as the load impedance decreases. which means that it should deliver more power into 32 ohms than it does at 50 ohms. yet this amplifier and the liquid fire both deliver less power into 32 ohms than they do at 50 ohms because of the power supply. furthermore alex has said that the liquid gold uses standard + and - 15 volt power supply rails and that the amplifier has mosfet output transistors. This would imply that the amplifier has a rail to rail output voltage. No mosfet that i'm aware of except for highly non-linear low voltage mosfets for power switching applications are capable of this. So the 9 watts is highly optimistic. One of the highest power headphones amps. Really?? Even a single ended dynahi has more power and more class A power, a balanced dynahi has 4 times the output power, the GSX mk2 with the 20 volt power supply rails has more power, rays piece of shit darkstar has 80 volt rails and stupid amounts of power etc. Fully balanced and differential ?? If that is the case, why is there a drv134 in there to convert single ended to balanced? super symmetry dynahi does that all by itself. Schiit mjolnir also does that all by itself. No single ended to balanced converter needed. Pure class A output for the first 550mw... Seriously... The first dynahi's were 18 watts of pure class A. The current GSX are 4 watts of class A (or something like that) The krell ksa5 klone is 5 watts of pure class A The new singlepower squarewave clone is adjustable from 2 watts of pure class A to 3 watts of pure class A (single ended) THD of .0015% @ 3 watts into 32 ohms. how about 9 watts into 50 ohms. And how much feedback is there, what is the intermodulation distortion, because with a thd that low, there has to be oodles of feedback. From the looks of it, its definitely a nice chassis. So I ask... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbyH9THoQo
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original power supply version of the krell ksa5 power supply also suitable with lower voltages for the singlepower squarewave the later version coming shortly http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/ksa5psorig.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/ksa5psorig.zip and here is the alternate version of the krell ksa5 power supply http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/ksa5psg.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/ksa5psg.zip
