JoaMat

Very nice headphone amplifier indeed. Please don’t wait too long with your next project. We want more.

Nice! So with one 5000mA 3S LiPo pack I’m ready for a 10 hours hike? Lovely. P.S. I want one now.

@Blueman2 Have you tried any of the alternative devices to C2M000170D in a Carbon amplifier?

This? kgbhultraminipsv4.zip

@starcat I have boards. Ping me if still interested. Location Sweden.

Most, if not all, public published GRHV boards are with c2m1000170d but if a bit creative you might use fqpf8n80c. If you do - please tell us how it turned out. We have to find ways to tackle unavailable parts.

Eventually I managed to dig up some money. I also had a brand new pair of Stax pads at hand. Thanks for the advice. I’m really happy with this Headphone.

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Report from cuisine de joamat. One side of the balanced board works alright – able to set output current and offset is within a millivolt. The other side – output current controllable but servo doesn’t work as desired, offset, varies round plus two and a half volt. Here is an aerial picture of the output board. I’m not so happy to dive in with test pins in there… and servo parts on the bottom side. …maybe I should be satisfied with one working side out of two possible.

94 seconds of Mozart: Allegro in D Major, K.626b/16 " performed by Seong-Jin Cho yesterday in Salzburg. I heard the piece today, tvice, on BBC Radio 3.

A small step towards a balanced Raal UberAmp setup. Completed a balanced smd (mostly) driver board today. Size 99mm x 35mm (3.9in x 1.4in). Two through hole unbalanced driver boards for comparison.

I have a reworked board layout of t2hvandlvpsukgsshv2 to a golden reference style T2 power supply.

bdent.com has 83 pieces of 2sc3675. Grab them before they are gone.

Did some “google” and found a supplier in EU of Mogami W2534 with connectors. Advice most appreciated.

I’ve reduced power board voltages to +/-12 V. Two Mean Wells 12 V capable to deliver 29 A. Heat sink temperature decreased considerable – of course. My old ears think the sound is as good as with +/-24 V Next step is to make a few more boards to get a balanced set up.

Happy New Year to You all!

I managed to get this working in Proteus. Headphone protector. A combination of Kevin’s comparator based protector and Stax delay circuit. Delay time set by C1/R8. LED D1 is blinking when relay is disengaged and steady when engaged. The screenshot shows U1 detecting an error – relay disengaged and LED is blinking…

Thanks for info, Kevin. Now changed driver voltage from +/-15 V to +/-35 V and op amp to OPA445 (from OP27). So far I’m happy with the outcome.

Merry Christmas!

Completed a second channel of a Raal amplifier. Current through output boards are 2.5 A giving heat sink (Modushop 300 x 40 x 80 mm) temperature of 85 degree Celsius (185 dergee Fahrenheit). Driver boards powered by +/- 15V. Original it’s +/-35V. I might try the higher voltage but my idea is to use mostly smd parts in driver boards and then you probably have to reduce voltage to something like +/- 15V. There is no bass filter at the moment on the boards but Roon is taking care of that. Rear plate is to short. But that was what I had at hand – shouldn’t affect the sound?

Here on ”test bench” or floor. Output board on heat sink powered by the box to the right containing two Mean Wells 2*24V/15A. Driver board is powered by AMB dual sigma set at 15V. Upper DMM shows 0.166V cross one of the 0.47 ohm power resistor. 65.5 on the other meter is temperature in Celsius, prob has a special hole in the heat sink. I’ve run this at higher current… 95 degree Celsius - not got good for wooden floor. Sound quality – interesting. Try a balanced version. Two output boards on one (bigger) heat sink…

So far only been connected to power supplies. Have had a couple of long nights in kitchen.

Here is an attempt to make a “smd raal uberamp driver”. I followed Kevin’s schematic. The big resistor is for feedback/gain, I guess 1.5 – 2 W is required and a few components on “solder” side. The real challenge will be the power sections. 3A x * +/-24V * 8 * balanced - might be a bit extreme for headphone amplifier…