kevin gilmore

fancy transformers AND fancy capacitors. unlikely anyone could tell the difference between the 3 models. The red label transformer is silver wire.

lots of different ways for different reasons, which is why i keep the original iso's around should i need to rip into a different format.

this is the first, and definitely not the last r2r discrete compensated dac https://kitsunehifi.com/product-category/audio-gear/dac/ i'm sure others will be duplicating these ideas soon, market is about to make a major change again absolutely insane (as in waste of money) to spend more than $2500 on a moving target.

foobar with sacd plugin or korg software from iso direct or sonore ripping iso to dsdiff then dff file to memory card for fiio x5ii etc or (when you rip to dff you might as well strip away the multi-channel stuff to save on storage) copy/map to any number of streamers/music boxes (like sony) your choice of pure dsd, or dop

better yet, do what i did, get 2 and stack them. rip 2 disks at once. could probably do 3 at the same time before the network slows down.

probably does not matter on this amp, but soldering the tabs on those transistors on the ssdynalo makes a fairly big difference to getting the heat into the heatsink plane

so that actually looks like an overheated pin due to poorly tinned wires (or no tinning) or not screwing down the wire tight enough. Seen this on too much expensive lab equipment. So the pin overheated, then all sorts of bad. The trace it was shorting to is the feedback line and is close to 0 volts

grlv boards will run perfectly without any load

one bridge if you are running a 3 wire transformer, 2 bridges if you are running a 4 wire transformer

you just had to point out the yellow chair... i'll bet it stinks too.

But there are 4 power supplies, 5 counting the bias. What you want is a series of detectors that detect + 15 volts +/-.25 volts, -15 volts +/-.25 volts, +400 or +450 +/-10 volts, and -400 or -450 +/-10V that all requires an extra board with comparators, voltage references and a number of other parts.

the led's drive the current sources. red only, and do not extend for any reason.

use black magic marker to make it all black, then add some messed up funky logo's plenty of room to add flying piece of shit kobicon output connector

well that is a better idea than that magic pixie dust that the one company fills its stupidly priced cables with... and then leaks white shit everywhere

customized case is what I was thinking of. I have the tools, what I don't have is enough time at the moment I have had the previous version running at 300ma on now for at least 6 months 24/7 no problems

where is steve when you need him? one man's floor is another man's ceiling

well that depends, if its close to 200 proof, even the 150 proof stuff, will burn very nicely. And you won't be able to see the flame.

40 years ago, they held up well against everything out there for the same price. As I remember they were $600 a pair. The JBL's were a bit more, and the B&O 5700 were also about $600 a pair.

I wish I still had my ns1000, but they fell apart... ns5000 is $10k per pair? am I reading that right...

here is the latest amp board picture without the ground plane http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgsshvcarbonv6.jpg with ground plane http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgsshvcarbonv6g.jpg and latest schematic http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgsshvcarbonv5.pdf and two of the many power supplies http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgsshvcarbonpsleft.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgsshvcarbonpsright.jpg older power supply schematic without the on/off switch http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/goldenreferencehvsic.pdf

that board is 5.47 x 3.04 inches

"output transformers" ?? needs a wood knob. I can help with that.

40? that scares me unless you are using it to drive speakers. even then its a bit much default gain is 10

once you have the usb stick prepared, trivially easy. About 2.7mb/sec i will be moving the pioneer under my main monitor so its going to be way easier than ps3 about 30 megabit per second on a gigabit network

ssdynahi more than happy to take se input and convert to balanced