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MASantos

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  1. Does the increased voltage and biasing from using the side mounted sinks version substantially improves the SQ or is it more subtle?

    I'm leaning towards the on-board sinks version, as the build would become much much easier to do, but I can definitely do the heat-sink drilling and tapping if this yields substantial improvement.

  2. I can do the extra boards. I could also do extra assemblies, but I don't have extra relays only.

    Ok, I'll take 2 extra boards only then. These will go to storage in case I have some use in the future. Please let me know how much for the extra 2 boards. Is the shipping cost of the 2 assembled boards enough to include these?

  3. The problem with multi-layer boards is not with shorts, but with imperfect through-hole plating to internal layers. So the problem is opens, not shorts.

    The reason that the best possible resistors are important is that there are so many of the buggers in an R/2R ladder, and the number change as you adjust the volume. So yeah - it looks like financial madness, and probably only strictly necessary in the very best high resolution amps - but let's see what Charcroft come up with. At the end of the day this will be similar in cost to an RK50.

    I'm not sure about others, but I am participating based on the estimate price of 88-108$, and even if it goes up to 150$ it's a good price for such a attenuator, but making them in the RK50 range would definitely put me out. I suspect some other folks would either cut down the number of assembled boards or just bail out.

    While the z foils are the absolute best in terms of performance, will it really make a difference when the other resistors in the preamp circuit, power amp, etc are "of less quality"?

  4. I could squeeze in thru hole resistors .4 inch holes.

    The 2 inches would probably stay the same, but it would be

    about .5 inches wider.

    I think that SMD resistors are much easier to work with since you don't have to be flipping the board and cutting the leads all the time.

    Fine tweezers and a bit of practice and it's much faster than soldering through hole resistors. The smallest I did where 0506 and those were on the limit of size, but the 1206 ones are quite nice to work with.

  5. Hi everyone,

    this is my first post here, though I have been reading Head-Case for quite some time.

    Would you consider shipping to France? If yes, I am definitely in for 2 boards assembled, plus relays.

    regards,

    sam

    I don't want to speak for Kerry, but I would assume that won't be a problem as I'm in Europe as well.

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