Some of you may remember me gabbing on about getting an office rig. Well, we're moving into the new building next week and I'll have the space for one finally. I was planning on waiting awhile, but as Mr. Nate Maher, Nugget Audio's kingpin, had this little beauty sitting around with nowhere to go, it's mine now! I think it was originally meant for Mike, but since he's slow to answer those pms, he just plain loses out and now he'll have to wait for the next one

Purdy, huh?

awesome, nate tried to sell that to me, but I was too broke.

Well, I had to let it go since mike didn't want it once I couldn't figure out why the speaker output didn't work.

Well, I had to let it go since mike didn't want it once I couldn't figure out why the speaker output didn't work.

Congrats Vicki! That is a great looking B22 and who needs speakers anyway! Enjoy it!

Sweet snag.

Question, did the 1,000 rounds of amo you recently purchased have anything to do with this?

Damn Nate - your builds are ridiculously impressive. The whole execution is simply perfect. Love the clean lines and font on the faceplate. Wiring inside kept to an absolute minimum. The placement of the potentiometer and input selector at the back of the chassis worked out perfectly. I wish my DIY Aleph p1.0 had your TLC

Thanks ryan, speaker output debacle aside I'm pretty pleased with how it all came together. I think it represents a culmination of a lot of what I've learned building other projects. And of course, in truth, the entire thing will be getting diassembled and reassembled prior to shipping so that each and every connector can get a dose of loctite. I'm not looking forward to that.

...And of course, in truth, the entire thing will be getting diassembled and reassembled prior to shipping so that each and every connector can get a dose of loctite. I'm not looking forward to that.

WTF?! Seriously?

Nate, did you have to put a load resistor across the SSR to make it work properly? I cannot quite make it out in the pics..

Definitely the nicest beta22 I've seen

Nope, no load resistor required. It behaved pretty weirdly until I got it attached to the sigma22 but once it had that load it was happy and so far has worked without a hitch. It's a pretty elaborate way of doing things but once completed is really sweet. Next time I'll have a go at the thermal shut down feature.

And Al, yes I'm really serious. The entire amp was designed to be able to be deconstructed with a minimum of fuss so it won't really be that much work but I'm sick of things falling apart when I ship them so I'm going to go a bit berserk on this one. Some components already use other means of holding them permanently (lock washers, lock nuts etc) so that eliminates a few things too. Also, I'm going to have to do one serious tweak to the R channel which refuses to zero out the dc offset despite using what were supposed to be fully matched components.

Damn Nate - your builds are ridiculously impressive. The whole execution is simply perfect. Love the clean lines and font on the faceplate. Wiring inside kept to an absolute minimum. The placement of the potentiometer and input selector at the back of the chassis worked out perfectly. I wish my DIY Aleph p1.0 had your TLC

Yup. It's gorgeous, and yet another reason why I deserve it and not Mike. I end up with all his gear anyway. Nate is just supporting his process.

Wow. What a classy piece of equipment; so simple yet so elegant. Great job on another B22 Nate..just let me know where to sign for the balanced counterpart Cheers

Well, I had to let it go since mike didn't want it once I couldn't figure out why the speaker output didn't work.

Great build Nate, and congrats on snapping it up boomana!

Those shaft extenders make a world of difference to the cleanliness of builds like this. And I take it that those custom shielded SumR transformers are working out well for you?

Well, Vicki is damn lucky to get this beauty, although as she puts it, this way just cuts out the middle man (aka Mike)!

nice pick up Vicki that is a sweet amp and pretty amazing for the office rig

Yet another example that Christmas comes early, here on head case.

Sweet amp, sweet build, deserving owner. Almost makes it worth the trip into the office.

Nice office rig. Why waste money on intermediate setups when you can have the best. Besides, if it doesn't work out you could always sell it to Mike

Mike has way too much gear anyway and the uver under on him selling it is 30 days anyway, this should be great with the R10s

Now THAT's an office rig. Better be sure you don't accidentally blow the roof off the joint with this one. Who doesn't love a big box with NUGGET on the front?

It's not black enough.

Great looking amp. Probably sounds as good as it looks

Damn nice looking build!

That's the Audrey Hepburn of amps... classy, well put together, impeccably dressed and not at all overdone.

Congrats Vicki!

Who doesn't love a big box with NUGGET on the front?

Well maybe not all of them.

Wow Nate, it ended up looking pretty sweet. Oh well, like Vicki said, it would have ended up in here headphone and amp graveyard eventually anyway. Do me a favor, either you or Vicki can send my refund to Al so he can send me his McCormack DNA-500. All I can say is thank god for the Sonic T-Amp in the office.