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This will form the basis of the new Blue Hawaii I'll build next year. Good thing here is that tube failure is far less catastrophic plus it should sound better.

You need more Flukes...

It may me Christmas but I'm not going to be so nice. That has to be the most stupid shit I've read all month.

I've never seen an LDR that measures at an acceptable level.

What's up with people thinking that any headphone amp will work at driving speakers? Some will output sound but that's about it.

That's pretty much it. Most of the SRD-7 units used a transformer to further step up the audio signal and isolate the bias supply from the audio signal.

My price all in is around the 24$ mark if I'm lucky with customs. If I'm unlucky then yeah.... it hurts.

I hope you aren't running the heater wires for the CCS tubes all the way to the PSU? That would be very bad...

Around the 10$ mark F.O.B. I'm sure the TKD's are around this level as well in these quantities.

Go ahead, think big. It is certainly one of the best pots ever made.

They are much closer on the newer boards as in they are touching. For a normal KGSSHV there is no need for heatsinks on the LV stuff. Doesn't generate enough heat for it.

That board is 100% correct.

Ahhh an old school HV. So much empty space on those PCB's...

That would be a rather gigantic investment for a groupbuy....

I think just Justin and I have sold them in the past but I'm running low and Justin might be as well. I will restock at some point but I won't sell them as I will probably stop selling parts soon.

While on the subject, here is the actual Megatron Mk2...

I don't mind.

I don't think the heaters will be a problem. They are in the signal path anyway (well sort of).

It was excellent even if I all but killed my feet. According to the health app in the phone we clocked over 20km every day... I'm so tempted to come back in June that it isn't even funny.

It needs MOAR transistors...

Add to the terminal block issue if they are fake ones off ebay. Massive issues with that stuff.

You can go lower but we want the offset adjustment to be mostly done in the resistor for temp and drift. The 182R comes from my boards which naturally have a different CCS.

No that info came straight from Stax. I didn't take it too seriously though as it was so silly. Not going into a detailed circuit analysis of the T2 here but they basically took a circuit they had (SRX) and threw a bunch of parts at it to make it just about work. The BH was based on what Kevin knew about the T2 circuit so he came very close with a lot fewer parts. It can still be done with a lot fewer parts still and give better performance.

For that amount of AC it has to be the rectifiers. The soldering has to be pretty much perfect especially in the diff amp so you could be dealing with tin whiskers or something like that. Also just a cold joint would cause this as a part has shifted when moving the board.

Any engineer will call a circuit flawed it it needs that part and that part alone to function when seemingly identical or even superior parts have issues. The issue was never the ground plane as the coating on these resistors should easily handle 1kV. What the Xicon's have compared to something like the CMF60's is that they are slightly inductive. Also the T2 is a great circuit? Who in their right mind would say that? Many neat ideas for sure but far more what the fuck were they thinking bits thrown in the middle. Same could also be said about the Blue Hawaii in some ways though.