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Rough guess, $400 or so. Hard to know since it's a custom designed trafo and uses the OCC wire option which drives the price up for sure.

Probably depends on who you know. On a serious note, shoot Ari a PM about it, I think he's built a couple.

While my pedestrian audio budget will never be able to afford any of the Dacses mentioned in that review it is shocking how similar their impressions of the Bryston are compared to what I heard in NYC at the recent meet.

This. Rocks.

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

No worries Stretch and thanks for the offer. Part of the appeal of the Stagg was the semi-insane ~$50 price. The cabinet is pretty well stocked right now so I should pass lest I give the missus an excuse to notice.

500 would be fine with me if someone wants to offload an extra.

Both appear to be gone, showing ships in "Discontinued" where before it said 3 to 5 days. Saw this while cooking lunch, should have stopped to grab one of the 640GB drives. Frack.

I'm jealous Naaman, I stopped by my local store Friday only to be told that the Stagg they had on hand was a special order and already spoken for.

Happy Birthday Mark!

but your amp has two toooobs?

There are no current plans to build the amp that I'm building in the commercial realm but just because it isn't a 1:1 translation doesn't mean it's open source. That said, some of the information contained on the schematic may be viewed as proprietary or at the very least not something Pete feels like giving away. I honestly didn't ask because it's his choice and one I'll certainly abide by as I'm sure everyone else here would if placed in the same position.

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Nope, I'm not the designer so me fiddling is a bad idea. Also, I'm not building something that hasn't already gone through a lot of tweaking or isn't at least something that someone I trust has gone through before. It's a one-off but has well formed roots. I also happen to be one of those people who can't stand endless tweaking, cap/resistor rolling, etc. I'm of the opinion that doing so is just a waste of time and yields differences best quantified by "I can't remember what it sounded like before so it must be better".

I appreciate the input but the design is set so what you see is what you get.

Yup. Transformer coupled input and output, both Sowter.

I'm kind of with you, mostly out of a bad feeling of who I could get stuck with.

It's similar, but different.

It wasn't really my intention to invite name suggestions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchKa8Ox3Hs Perhaps I will call it Clyde Frog.

That's not entirely correct. It depends on where Andy and his friends buy there eggs. If they are commercial eggs it's likely they are sterile, if they are "farm fresh" you never know.

Eating the turkey only killed one, the whamurkey killed dozens. Therefore whamurkey is the devil.

ical won't be iposting for a little while.

The designer asked that I not share it.