Everything posted by kevin gilmore
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Part Sourcing Assistance/Advice Thread
the Teflon drifts a bit. So the diameter is .716 inch and the hole size is 81th have not found a socket that does not fit or fits tight yet.
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goldenreference low voltage power supply
no room for anything else...
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
dual primaries are fine everywhere in the world except japan.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
yes they definitely work. where the schematic is, not sure at the moment. if there are troubles its usually the that340 chip.
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
All the SumR transformers I bought were universal voltage. 100,120,200,240 dual windings, one tap per winding They should already know exactly what these transformers are. It would probably take me a while to dig up the original quotes.
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current feedback electrostatic amp
ksc5026 is an in stock substitute for the npn
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The making of a SuSy Dynahi
that is amb's step attenuator setup and should be fairly easy to fix.
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krell ksa5 klone
It really depends on which resistors were changed. If they gave you a schematic, please post it. Edit: found the schematic. you can replace the 1k with 10k resistors. The power supply will come up a bit slower, but it will otherwise work.
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krell ksa5 klone
Yes that is one of my layouts, not in a position to look up schematic/board at the moment.
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and now for something completely different part 3
In balanced mode the output current capability can blow the protection circuit of the esl63 if you attempt to play it to loud. other than that, it should sound wonderful.
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and now for something completely different part 3
The 25 amps was ac line input current rush
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and now for something completely different part 3
I guess you can use the amps supply at +/-40 and then you don't populate the reg transistors. But I would go with +/-55v and then use the reg transistors and the GRLV to make the 40v references you might get away with +/-50v because the voltage drop of the GRLV should be minimal that way it's going to be absolutely noise free. congo5 did have some trouble with the power on, the switch on for the transformers he is using drew something like 25 amps If that smps supply is designed
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and now for something completely different part 3
There was a cement power resistor tit perfectly, I am not in a position to get the part number now. you need the balanced front end board which stacks on top of the amp board if you want to do balanced. the +/- reg inputs come from GRLV supplies set for the appropriate voltage (which I don't remember) I don't remember what the pot does, probably output current adjust single ended its 25 watts pure class A into 8 ohms. Balanced 100 watts pure class A into 8 ohms. you can raise the power supply voltages and lower the idle current and get 400 watts into my 8 ohms 50 watts of which are class A Obviously you need the appropriate mound of aluminum to get rid of the heat. Or water cooling.
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2SA1968 substitution
Kerry will have to answer that. mikhail's biggest problem was the fact that everything out of his mouth was a lie. every es1 burned up the hand selected tubes mikhail picked for them due to major cathode voltage violation. After that the amp is toast. There were 2 other es1 with the gas tube power supplies. One of those is known toast. also the price of 33000 yen for the t8000 is clearly way off base, it is 550000 yen and the website has changed!
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2SA1968 substitution
The Kerry version of the T2 is a one of piece, and I'm pretty sure Kerry won't sell it for anything less than $50k. none of that stuff is available, including the 2 singlepower pieces. At any price. There were only 5 X es1/es2 total made, I have one, Birgir has one, and I know where 2 of the other 3 are. And that sdsxlr is also a one of piece.
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2SA1968 substitution
How does this scam work? The solid silver seems to be the only thing that might exist for purchase.
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2SA1968 substitution
I don't think that a single amplifier on that page is actually purchaseable. and the bhse insides picture is labeled wrong. the singlepower pictures are also kind of funny these days.
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Balanced to unbalanced board
Yep, a few more parts and more $. But usable for just about anything.
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krell ksa5 klone
you will effect the frequency response. best to use the right part in this case.
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Massdrop copycat R2R DAC
years ago I designed a r2r/sacd dac which I would still like to do. But the fpga code was something I knew nothing about, and when I went searching for someone to do the code I ended up with absurd prices in the $350k range. Now given the amount of time that may have been put into this, that was probably not completely out of the range of reasonable. Over the years that price has dropped, a lot recently, someone is willing to sell me the code for $5k. So its clear that the code has been ripped, or reverse engineered and the source code is now readily available. Its also clear from those pictures that the massdrop board is a virtual identical copy of the hibiki board. There is evidently software out there that will take gerber files and turn them back into editable layout files. my guess is that the firmware in the 2 boards is at least marginally different. so they are not the same even though from a hardware standpoint they are completely identical. in the end its probably going to be shown that even the stupid high priced spreads (msb,totaldac…) will have a code base that started at the same root. another year or 2 and this will all be public domain. Then the math wizzes out there will be able to work on the FIR and IIR code for optimization.
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Massdrop copycat R2R DAC
I expect that the fpga code has been leaked and pretty soon everyone will have 24 bit sign magnitude dacs that convert dsd. also this uses actual switches, not the 8 bit shift registers, so it's a better quality product than some of the stupidly priced things. massdrop seems to be doing their best to drop the bottom out of the audio market
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Megatron Electrostatic Headphone Amplifier
you can listen to it. But better to pick pairs of tubes that result in better balance. or trim the cathode resistors, but really better to pick matched tubes. yes it gets pretty warm. touch a 120 watt fender head sometimes.
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
Heavy plexiglass shield absolutely required, rounded is better
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grounded grid
try removing the 2n3904 current limit transistor if the voltage is right without any load
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Balanced to unbalanced board
Original downloads work for me?