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But you just install a switch which grounds the - input for SE. Hell, just make two XLR plugs with pins 1 and 3 tied internally.

Yeah but the LC was intended as a gateway drug so if you buy another amp then you get a discount, hence the numbers are much lower. Also how many have or will be returned for servicing due to the crap design? All of this adds massively to the cost.

I know...

Why are you using the phase splitter? This isn't a Cavalli amp, there is no need for it.

If you have minimal running costs then 700K at a decent markup (kinda on the excessive side for the LC...) but we know that this is really the third Cavalli Audio as he's run it into the ground two times. He always needs new investment to stay afloat so the running costs clearly aren't low. Also how many of those units resulted in massive discounts on other items and thus last revenue?

I think it is tied to the servo but I can't be sure. Too lazy to look for the schematics...

It think this is a quirk of the CCS or something like that as my Carbon's don't do this. Stax still use it to this day in the 727. It's long been out of production though.

Including our ears!!!

Don't get me started on that drivel but we are indeed ready and waiting!!! We have a fabulous viking ship...

Of course it does, we don't need no stinkin' mosfets!!

We are vikings so anybody falling down without an actual reason for doing so would be laughed out of town.

They did good but it shows how important it is to have the right mindset for this.

Happy Birthday buddy!!

I think you did more analysis there than Cavalli has ever done for any of his products. Designing with just a multimeter for the win!!

4M7 output resistors....yeah that will cause issues...

Cheap and "balanced" will generate a lot of interest. We also have the same situation with Cavalli as RSA back in the day, only positive gushing from idiotic noobs so people think it is the bee's knee's. Anything negative is removed per the Head-fi protocol. Kevin did spend some time with it today and this is what he sent me:

IIRC Single Power had 7 year warranty and look where that got people... Just because Cavalli is stupid enough to claim a lifetime warranty of these things doesn't mean anything. He will be replacing all those parts time and time again until they claim it is due to abuse and not covered by the warranty. Story as old as time...

It would also be a good way of adding some much needed angle to the 009 pads.

The Lambda Nova is excellent, nothing short of it. A guy came from Denmark 10 days ago to pickup an amp in person and we naturally made whole listening session out of it. He compared pretty much all of the Lambdas and the LNS was a stand out success. Funny though, he wanted to try the SR-404 (as he has one as well) and my reply...which one? I have three.... SR-404, SR-SC1 and SR-404LE...

Wow...just wow. Gotta hand it to Cavalli for being devious little shits.

Those will burn up in no time. The LC isn't even linear up to 20kHz so I bet it has a very oddly shaped sound.

That's a lot of units and I bet a lot of angry customers. The original owner of this one was certainly glad to be rid of it. One can never forget that about Head-fi, if you are a sponsor then you can have any and all negative posts about removed.

This really should be called Liquid Shit as two Schiit Modi amps are much better than this. Far cheaper too...

I figured I'd start a topic on this where people can actually find info about the amp. I'll quote Kevin's post from the DIY thread in below. As with so many other of these projects, curiosity got the better of me so I actually bought one of these amps. It had gone back to Cavalli to be fixed so no claims possible that it was an early unit and the new ones aren't like this at all. That is the usual Cavalli defense plus that we are doctoring the pics to show his crap in an unflattering light. Well for some pics I'll link in Kevin's post now: So let's discuss what is wrong with this thing. First of all, it's not actually balanced, more a quad of single ended amps which have no reference to each other. Similar to the Woo Wes in that sense. It uses a quad opamp as a phase splitter to deliver a balanced signal to the four modules (there are two on the top of the board and another two on the bottom of the board). That uncovers the first lie, this thing is indeed not fully discrete. Now the second bit, it uses bog standard off the shelf Jfets for input devices for each module, one P- channel and one N-channel. Now these are all made in a pick and place machine so there is no way to match these input fets which is crucial to good performance. Another issue is the low power and the bad choice of output devices. The severely limit the performance of the amp and are driven so low that they barely tick over. Now we come to the power supply, what a steaming pile of shit that is. To save a few cents Cavalli decided to clobber one of those together himself instead of just ordering one from the people who actually know how to do this. I checked and a MeanWell PSU which fits these specs costs 18$ for a single unit, much less when you buy hundreds. How fucking cheap can one manufacturer be? I can't wait to get this here so I can do a proper review of it, Head-fi style. Now we all know that this is just a baby Liquid Gold so I can only imagine how much that one must suck. Never fear though as I will buy one of those so we'll see how horrible it really is.

I'm more worried about Katla than Hekla to be honest. Katla is overdue (hasn't erupted in 98 years) and given that it is covered by a large glacier unlike Hekla... it would mean a lot of ash in the sky. It's also a very big volcano so if it goes, things will not be pretty.