Everything posted by kevin gilmore
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Balanced to unbalanced board
my balanced/unbalanced/cast to balanced/unbalanced. but its a pile of transistors, single resistor gain control, and would need a buffer for low impedance loads.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
how very threshold benefits, one channel gets trashed, replace it, disadvantages, board costs
- KGSSHV Carbon Build Thread
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How can I measure if my DAC puts out common mode DC from the balanced outputs?
measure with a voltmeter to ground, each side.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
the pdf picture sure looks like the alphas who knows who actually makes them
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The Headcase Stax thread
she divorced him. and for really good reasons too. ray is very abusive (no one saw that coming) i'm sure others can point to ray's wedding photo, was on his facebook account... She did not look happy, but hey ray has lots of money. and a couple of expensive and now horribly out of date cars.
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The Headcase Stax thread
when the issue of the juice can caps (laser power supply caps) being wired together, clearly unsafe by the product data sheet, jude took mikhails answer over the product data sheet and deleted all posts... But ray was jude's personal friend so he got special treatment. wonder what jude thinks of rays new barely legal new Asian import wife.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
final board file for the transportable just posted http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/boards/SSDynalo-v1-4.zip this is Kerry's work, very amazing
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Watches
If that has a 10mhz pure sine wave output, then other than power supply and other monitor stuff associated with it, that is all you need. the complete unit actually has the same part in it that is sold on ebay as a module plus the power supply, and likely an output buffer. But the name of the game is 10.00000000mhz (or better accuracy) with a jitter of less than 100 femtoseconds. which my beast actually beats on both frequency and jitter by a fair amount. (one month accuracy verified against a primary caesium beam clock, less than 1 x 10-12 seconds) personally I think this is overkill to the extreme. The only reason I did it was I was given the thing for free, and was challenged to make a 40+ year old monster work to original factory specifications. And i'm supposed to be emptying out the house, not dragging home nonsense like this. But it really is a patek phillipe movement, 19 jewels. A thing of beauty. And a rubidium lightbulb, a magnetic microwave chamber, a rubidium phase splitter etc... Old school
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The Headcase Stax thread
I was going to but then I tried to figure out why I should respond. If someone does not understand that an electrostatic amp is ALWAYS going to cost more than a dynamic amp due to the quantity of parts and the voltages involved, there is no hope. and remember that any of the designs I have released ( 3 of them) that use the emission labs 20B tubes are double or triple the parts cost due to the tubes, makes a T2 seem cheap.
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Watches
here is my new patek phillipe wrist watch. carefully refurbished, all new capacitors etc... and my new secondary reference word clock
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Thinking of having some gilmore boards made
2 or 3 oz copper for the dynalo boards to get rid of more heat
- KGSSHV Carbon Build Thread
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krell ksa5 klone
its supposed to be +/-22V check polarity of all electrolytics could also be a loose ground
- KGSSHV Carbon Build Thread
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SRX-Plus Build Thread
ceramic insulators with white thermal grease and the appropriate bushing and screw
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Part Sourcing Assistance/Advice Thread
you want to use one of the linear isolators to drive one side of the bias circuit.
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Part Sourcing Assistance/Advice Thread
reverse engineering a product has been declared to be legal in the usa. see landmark rulling Emulex vs digital equipment corp. publishing a schematic that you have done is also legal. If you have an original copy from the manufacturer it is not legal to publish it. I don't know about copying an exact circuit board layout. Likely if you have the original gerber files and modify them, probably not a great idea. But if you layout a board from what you see, probably acceptable. lifting code from on board microprocessors may be an issue.
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Now for something different...
120ma thru 10 ohms is... 1.2 volts at least that is what I remember
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
got a scope and signal generator? pics of the 2 phases please at about 1vpp
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
an early version of that board had the ground missing from one of the capacitors. put the opamps in and see if there is any sound change. without the opamps there is an additional feedback loop
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Focal Utopia headphones...with Beryllium driver
if you sds xlr breaks down you ship it to me. With a bottle of scotch. Dead output caps are a problem, but rare, usually the power supply does evil things. Can't imagine anyone else stupid enough to touch it.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
i am pretty sure i never had the gerbers for that but i will look. Those are the original circuit, not balanced differential, and use hard to find jfet inputs. best to build one of the new boards
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New Oppo player for late 2012
in the usa bdp 80fd, $300 and free shipping. If you have as many discs as I do, works out to 10 cents a disc way cheaper than anything else at the moment
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KG Balanced Dynahi build discussion thread
gerber file alpsquad3 in my boards directory. birgir may have extra boards to sell. there were similar things on ebay a while ago.