kevin gilmore

well the phase splitter is just the ubal to bal board. and then there are pieces missing. plus you would have to build 2 more boards anyway. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/cfa3.jpg for your thing, you could just adjust the gain to 1 and then use the ubal to bal board. the stax mafia moves at light speed someone really needs to check this one over hard. the miracle of cut and paste is not necessarily foolproof. this is probably as close as I can get to the ayre stuff without actually having the schematics. I could go all krell on this and stuff it full of power supply caps...

by the way fully balanced version coming. lots of parts! 100% differential 100% complementary http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/cfa3production.pdf not sure why it took me years to come up with this NO FEEDBACK of any kind thd <.005% and absolutely flat over the 10hz to 200khz frequency response +0, -3db .017hz to 4.43 MHz

for that price you could have 5 sets made, no problem. Some of this is beginning to upset me, people making money for stuff I give away. The Chinese ksa5 clones also piss me off, they are hacked up garbage. They have no idea why the original sounded so good.

and a face mask

I used some small vintage feet. No idea of part number. Justin's rubber feet are probably way to big, besides which the hole size is too small.

if you have open inputs on the lm339 the bias current will turn them on. need to make sure the inputs before the filters are tied to ground. +7.9 is the correct voltage wrt ground when the relay is on.

wouldn't the bass molecules like longer wires?

10 watts of heat per channel. As high as 15 with higher voltage rails. amp is 3db down at 4.3 MHz (seriously)

probably 100 ohm series resistor is good idea will add it to the board edit: changed 50 to 100

and that's the problem. the 4 pin is balanced only, no ground. can't be used on common ground headphones.

so far total length difference on the longest trace is .3 inches works out to about 100 picoseconds. if I was doing work in the 100mhz to 1ghz range, it would make a difference.

new feature for the freaks over there that don't like square corners... all board files with "m" at the end have mitred corners. I don't see the difference, but it only takes a few seconds to convert.

there is no functional difference in the new boards, just for people without the mpsw parts probably lots more surface mount updates on everything else soon. the idea is 100% mouser available parts

because I'm being picked on elsewhere for using obsolete components... surface mount versions of the dynahi in the boards directory. smt pzta56 and pzta06 replace mpsw06 mpsw56 ssdynahibalsmt.zip ssdynahibalsmth.zip second one is on board heatsinks

other than the fact that i don't have any. two versions of the 6ra6 board http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgst6ra6.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgst6ra6cascode.jpg and cascode version of 6s4 http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgst6s4cascode.jpg someone please check for errors

anyone find a 6ra6 or 9ra6 datasheet in english, or at least can tell if the pins are bottom view or top view?

I can do a version of the board for 9ra6 if you want but an adapter should be easy, the plate and the filament are the same pins the cathode and the grid each move down a one pin

yep in fact you can delete a number of the parts. 2 sets of RCRC and then a jumper on the C to ground.

that is definitely my layout. wish i could make boards at home, i could waste even more time and make the house smell of ferric cloride.

you are supposed to use 1kv diodes!

a variac will make testing easier

i will see if i can cram 5 watt resistors in that place. re: q27,q28 probably better to put 1 watt transistors in there, trouble is finding them. Those transistors are rated at 500mw, and they are running at 436mw new board will take 5 watt resistors, these http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Ohmite/WHE1R0FET/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtlubZbdhIBIFwx82bjKdTOEgG%252bjKeDnyQ%3d but seriously, that power supply should not be able to supply more than 1 amp, so the 1 watt resistors should have been sufficient. will turn q27 and q28 into pzta56,pzta06 new board http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/cfp2c.jpg and new board file in the boards directory thanks to grindingthud for doing this, my time is more limited these days, and I knew this amp was going to be amazingly good, and fairly cheap by the way, on my prototype I had to take it to someone to measure it, because its below the range on my equipment. Ends up .003% thd at 20khz at 40v peak to peak everything else like thd at 1khz is basically unmeasurable with even equipment in the $25k range. And its flat to more than 1mhz, the result of being a current amplifier.

I agree with all of those numbers, especially the gain.

oops, those should be 5k. The board says 5K now. maybe we can increase those. what is the voltage on pin 6 of the opamp to ground.

updated schematic