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CJ - it's just time, patience and by laying wiring diagrams out beforehand. It doesn't happen by accident. I'd say I spent somewhere between 6 and 8 hours wiring it and that was after having laid everything out beforehand. Example - you'll notice that the tube sockets are orientated such that the filament wires don't have to cross over any of the other pins to make their connections. That is 100% intentional and something I specifically looked at before laying out the top panel of the amp. In a way, yes, as in don't do it his way. Really it just goes to show you how much of a failure his operation was. I'm an amateur yet he somehow makes me look like a pro. Not very good. Noise floor is currently too high, but I'm working on that. But even at the end of my tweaking I'd never pick anything with tubes in it for IEMs unless it was truly professionally built for them. It's not even for sale (yet).

"Reprasentation" in the subject is the less funny one.

Nice grab Ari!

Saying thanks seems like it isn't enough, but it's all I've got.

Discovered today that it was on sale at the NH Liquor Store for $51.99 a bottle.

It'd be helpful if they carried the dB scale all the way around the waterfall so you could see where the graph starts and stops and some sort of meaningful sense of scale could developed for the intermediary information. As it is I have no idea how large that hump is somewhere around 5k. Could be 5db, could be more like 7 or 8.

Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim It's a heck of an enjoyable listen, at least for me, what else you want to know?

I'd drop the AT service center an email or phone call and see if they'll send you parts. Glue might work, but I'd prefer a more permanent fix.

Thanks Ryan (and others), she needs a bit of tweaking and will probably never be a good JH13 amp but that somehow does not phase me.

I would have done the top panel black but I'm saving that for something else.

No.

So this seemed as good a place as any to post the final details of this. Might as well have all my insanity in one convenient location (for now). Earlier in the year I sold the Menace. Sad day, for sure, but one that ultimately became more and more necessary as Lily started to take over more and more of the space that I formerly called audio-home. Let's face it, when push comes to shove she's small but deceptively powerful. Anyway, as I found myself now headphone ampless I started digging through drawers in my diy workshop looking to see if I had enough parts to build a power supply for my long out of service Millett Hybrid. What I found was that in typical Nate fashion I'd acquired an insane degree of spare parts for the Menace. So with a little help from Ari (nikongod) we tweaked an existing design that used the same tube compliment by had a transformer coupled output and created what I named the MenaceTC Lite. Why Lite? Well, two reasons, one it weighs less than the original Menace due largely to the fact that it uses a SS power supply and two, the real MenaceTC is still sitting in 4 more boxes and is my "keep me sane this winter" project. When I get a chance I'll try to finish up the Lite schematic and post it, it's a deceptively simple looking beast but is not without it's share of neat tricks. For one thing it's a choke filtered power supply rather than the typical throw a huge cap in there style, it uses LEDs to bias the input tube along with some other trickery that Ari will have to explain. But this is getting long, so without further adieu here she is in mostly finished garb. External Shots Power Supply Side Amp Side Low Front Back "Dusty's Detail" (custom black SS washers) Upskirt Pron Overview Audio Bits Ground Bar Initial listening impressions are, well, worthless so far but I'm about to go remedy that. I have the filaments floating right now and eventually I'll do something similar to what I did on the original Menace and reference them to ground. The amp does have just a touch of hum, hardly worth noting, and I believe that once the filament work is done that'll be a thing of the past. For those in the greater NYC area I'll have the amp with me this weekend.

PM the details Dinny, I have some ES7s that can donate parts if need be.

Waaaat?

It should be noted that tubes for Stretch arrived at my office today.

That's amazing that they don't have a way to check them, way to support your product Senn.

Always surprises me to see high-end preamps like that not use even simple shielding on the transformer.

You be quiet you!

You are well and truly fooked aren't you?

I was thinking more along these lines Al.

I'd stay away from the super cheap meters despite the results of that testing. My own personal experience is that my cheap $5 meter is often off by more than 10V when trying to measure line voltage. Example, LV on my Fluke = 122VAC, on the $5 Harbor Freight = 110VAC. Pretty shitty if you ask me. I use that meter as a fuse now, as in "I wonder if this measurement will blow up my meter".

Commies everywhere were just insulted.

I believe you are correct, in which case they should have made sure not to shaft customers that funded their development.