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Have just gotten the Project setup, thru my new untested (and in typical Pars tradition, uncased as of yet) Salas phono stage. I have to check the arm setup, but powered it all on and couldn't detect any noise or hum (yet). I've done some reading on the Project and in addition to the sorbothane washers, apparently there is a damping trough for these arms that is ~$200 ish and seems to be very promising. I was reading a very interesting thread on diyaudio last night regarding a guy building what looks to be an interesting tonearm, which is pivoted but provides perfectly tangential tracking: https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/analogue-source/327684-revolutionary-pivoting-tangential-tone-arm.html

^ Oooh, with a heapin' helpin' of Blose!

Curious... did you ever successfully install a couple of these regs on those 3oz boards? I know a couple of people did, but I never did get one to work. Ground planes with 1/3 to 1/2 of the pins tied to ground on these little parts seems to be to be somewhat challenging.

Nice mallet! And the table and bench are absolutely gorgeous! Great job all!

Kerry, Since many (most?) used Amb external regulators instead of the onboard, most would not be able to access the enable pins/function of the regs. Just a thought.

Thanks Kerry. I'm not interested in redoing mine. As long as I am aware of it, its fine

Congrats! When you saw the offset spike, were you checking the single-ended output (L+ or R+ to gnd)? If you look at the balanced offset (L+ to L- or same for R channel), you won't see this. It is something I noticed awhile back and is caused by the Meanwell bricks not coming up at the same time on power-on. Balanced phones should be fine (common mode or balanced offset won't spike). I would not leave single-ended phones connected on either power up or power down.

Yes. If you have the volume pot in, just turn it down all the way and that is good enough.

That is channel to gnd DC offset? The +/- offset pretty much takes care of itself. I wouldn't mess around too much with the 2 trimpots by the 255R's. From what I found, you can chase your tail trying to get it closer and closer and then wind up with one of them at a near dead short and things go south quickly from there. The differences you are seeing are probably transistor variances. The resistors from the BOM are all 0.1%, so should be fairly close. The ones I built, I got offset dialed into +/-2mV without the servos in.

340mV is rather high for a mini (17mA). What does your DC offset look like without the servo opamps in? I would check the bias across every 20R resistor for starters. Reset all trimpots to midpoint (with an ohmeter) and go from there. The 2 pots by the 255R bias resistors can cause some wonkiness if you go too far in the adjustment of them (same with the full size amps).

RIP Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne co-founder. Wow... https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/entertainment/adam-schlesinger-dead/index.html

OLEDs in the house. UGS Muse preamp (x2). This one is for HC user DrizztDo (who I am building the Carbon for and previously built an SS Mini Dynalo for). The previous processor pic(s) were from my board (in the mini T2 build thread I believe). The 0.5mm 100 pin LQFP-100 package caused me to buy a USB microscope to see what the fuck I was doing... Jose had posted one in that thread.

Having stencils for the board wouldn't hurt...

RIP Terrence, Albert, Bill and Alex. #fuckcancer #fuckcovid19

Well, it was $48 shipped, but got it the other day. Still figuring out how to use it. Here is an ARM processor, LQFP-100 package, soldered in. I had the alignment perfect; it moved slightly when I was tacking down a couple of corner pins. I'll go thru and verify with my Fluke.

RIP Kenny

I run it on a 2012 Mac Mini i7 and it seems to work fine. 16GB Ram, 500GB SSD.

Would you be able to run Windows IE on your Mac using Wine or WineBottler? I've used this on mine to run the Windows versions of LTSpice and DipTrace. It seems to work pretty well. https://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

No shit... coding for IE? what a piece of fail.

B normally... the equivalent of the Toshiba BL grade.

Happy Birthday Al!

Good god! Those things are almost approaching what where they, K1000 AKG silliness in their looks (from the front)! Back in the '70s, my brothers and I were looking for a set of speakers and the Heil AMT-1s were the runner up (to the Infinity Monitors with the Walsh tweeters). We used a single recording for evaluation... the 1970 or so CSO/Solti Mahler 8. It wound up that we would buy the speaker that didn't break up playing it at a good* volume. The Bose 901's sadly didn't make that cut... * i.e., loud

I know that Kuei Yang Wang (Thorsten Loesch) one of the principals of Abbingdon Music Research really liked the Campfire Andromedas. He modded a set of KZ ZS6s to try to mimic them, but was given a pair of the real thing. I'd like to listen to them sometime. I modded a set of the KZs as he did, but didn't like the sound (but they did sound a lot better than stock).

Happy Birthday!