August 4, 200916 yr hehe, add up the price of all of the options. For the same price as upgrading both sets of caps you can have the BHSE with no caps. No cap is as good as no cap at all. What do you mean by "wasn't supposed to"? The early speculation & guesses was that it was going to be a Stax-SRX/SP ES1 which does not require output caps. The nice thing about using output caps is of course that the amp can be made self/auto/fixed-biasing. Speaking with Jack Woo about the amp, Im still not clear on what it is ( he said its basically a GES on steroids, but then what is the phase splitter tube that was recently added for? and how does the amp have balanced inputs: the GES circuit can not accept balanced ins... too many things dont add up. Most likely he just didn't want to tell me what it was, which is understandable because nobody {except nelson pass who dosnt seem to care at all} likes people looking at schematics for amps they are trying to sell. ) but he did tell me that the output uses plate chokes which is pretty slick. Dunno if its slick enough to justify the use of a second set of caps in the signal path, but slick. Perhaps its something like an SRX/ES-1 but built with a single supply? aaah, the rampant speculation continues.
August 4, 200916 yr What do you mean by "wasn't supposed to"? My guess is Spritzer is referring to a rumor that it was DC coupled throughout.
August 4, 200916 yr What do you mean by "wasn't supposed to"? The output stage in the prototype was supposed to be DC coupled i.e. tubes to the headphones with nothing in between. They had issues with that so could have reverted back to the basic design of that circuit, i.e. the 2uf caps.
August 20, 200916 yr I received word of the amp's dimensions from Jack today, as I recently inquired about them: 16.5"x12"x4" (height includes feet). +3.5" for the plastic panel. Wait, "plastic"? I thought it was acrylic, but that's what Jack said....
August 20, 200916 yr Wait, "plastic"? I thought it was acrylic, but that's what Jack said.... Acrylic is a plastic.
August 20, 200916 yr Wait, "plastic"? I thought it was acrylic, but that's what Jack said.... Poly(methyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hard to imagine it getting anywhere near hot enough to melt. Edited August 21, 200916 yr by n_maher
August 21, 200916 yr Since knocking up his wife, he's had to learn to be flexible with the interchangeability of 'hot' and 'not'.
October 30, 200916 yr Well, it certainly looks nice still Woo Audio WES - Love at first sight! - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio
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