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Music is flowing, finaly. Very hudge sound, so much more power than my T1, everything is better, soundstage coming more in front, dynamics, and à lot more. Many thanks to all of you. À big thank you to Spritzer, à hudge one to head incluons !!!! )

Bigger pics and my 4700uF looking like mushrooms... waiting for new ones

My pb is solved, a very stupid mistake on 18V PS connection.... Some pictures of the amp. Still have a little issue with my alpha pot, but music is near !!!!

Hi everybody, My assembly is finished, during test, everything was ok : 15V, 450V, balance 200mV, offset 9V (à bit heavy..) BUT after 15 mn, the two 4700uF started to boil and the BR1 bridge is hot !!! Any idea ?

For the moment, I will have to enter the KGSShv unbalanced (DAC asymetrical outputs only). Is there à way to go balanced before the quad pot : there are some active module with opamps but I'm à bit afraid of quality lost. Is there any advice ?

Nice place, Provence. Not started yet, collecting all parts must be the toughest part of the build, but I'm almost done. And then assembly

Spritzer, what kind of tricks about cooling boards ?

Yes, a 2U case, just as Spritzer did. I have à large case for that : 435mm*400mm. Headinclouds made a drawing of it, it is just but it fits in. I'll send pictures when I'll receive the onboard PCB

Thanks, à normal picture

My Schubert KGSShv front arrived !!!

Are you using multi or mono strands wires ? Silver or copper ?

Merry Chrismas t all of you stax people. Could anyone give some advice about internal wiring : for mains (size, gauge for HV), and signal (I was thinking about Jupiter cotton copper 26 AWG cryo) ?

Here is the front of my future "F.Schubert KGSShv" project :

Spritzer, just a question : where do you find your led push power button ? thanks

Could some of of you tell me how to mount a led push power button and how to provide 12 V for the led ? Where is it possible to find nice knobs (aluminium or wood :ebony, other) ? Thanks

If I understand well, better choose outboard sink and large power transformer would bring more current ? Hope my question is not too stupid, as I am not considering myself as an expert

I know that sound crazy, but it is working on LiFePO4 batteries. By the way, what important part of KGSS can be of good quality for sonic improvments ? Resistors on signal path ? Condo on the PS ?

I'll try KGSSHV with a standard pot, and then with silver TVC from Audio consulting http://www.audio-consulting.ch/?Parts:Silver_Rock_TVC. Just to speak about my system, I used to have a Weiss Firewire Minerva with Macbook, Trinnov ST1, Audio consulting SWGLA and MIPA DIY preamp and amp running on heavy solar batteries, finally DIY Janus of audionec type http://www.audionec.com/. As I moved on a smaller house, I came on head-fi. I kept my minerva, testing a new dac (Metrum Octave which is very very nice http://www.nosminidac.nl/Octave_English.html with audio GD interface), the T1 and SR507. I would just like to mention how audioprana cables http://audioprana.free.fr/catalogue%20vente%20en%20ligne.htm are good (from power, digital and interconnect) : far better than all I could test and quite cheap to build. But my dream Stax amp would be : http://www.audio-consulting.ch/?Products:Amplifier:MIPA_Stax_Amplifier maybe next DIY step.......... But let's stay on earth for the moment with the KGSS !!!!

A question for those of you who eard about the KGSSHV : I have a SR 507 running on a old SRM T1. I expect the KGSS to be more detailed, with better controled bassed without lossing the magic on the vocals provided by the T1. Do you think that would be the case or do I have to go for the BH described by KG on Headwize ? julien

Hi everyone, anybody knows where I could get KGSS boards ? Thanks