looks fantastic!

Nice and Lite! Glad to know you are Menacing once again.

Nate, thats hot. I cant wait to hear it next week.

Schematics!

Looks great, Nate! And thanks for the shout out. Yes, Dusty approved.

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

A lot of it's just posturing -- the silver and wood tones with the black transformers look great.

Did I just say that out loud?

jeez nate great work. Gotta love the LED bias for sure. Great grounding scheme. Definitely interested in seeing the complete schematic.

jeez nate great work. Gotta love the LED bias for sure. Great grounding scheme. Definitely interested in seeing the complete schematic.

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.

Tying B+ to the top plate and removing the ground connections would.

Sweet!

from the upskirt that does look very nice, real eyecandy

Looking great, nice job on the base, too.

I'm peeved that I'll miss the boat saturday. I'd much rather be there!

Gorgeous work, Nate, as per usual.

how the hell do you get your wiring so neat inspiring work as always nate.

how the hell do you get your wiring so neat inspiring work as always nate.

mikhail taught him..

Not well enough apparently since the SP motto was to have at least 2 joints (insulation optional) in any length of wire...

Nice job Nate. The only real question is how it will sound with the JH13.

Mike, just buy it already.

If you insist.

how the hell do you get your wiring so neat inspiring work as always nate.

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.

mikhail taught him..

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.

Nice job Nate. The only real question is how it will sound with the JH13.

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.

If you insist.

It's not even for sale (yet).

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Lordy. That looks good. Looking forward to hearing it.

But it will be. If only I had another set of headphones.

Audez'e LCD2. You know you want them, Mike.

Audez'e LCD2. You know you want them, Mike.

Damn, now that's a thought.