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Yeah, that stuff should never be used. As for the 15-18V, are you talking about offset or balance? The amp drifts a lot as it warms up but you might need to adjust the series resistor in the offset adjustment.

The reason we use green boards is to easily spot any shorts so if you can't see any then the board isn't at fault. There isn't enough power in this circuit to cause anything like this so it has to be a short, bad part or something like that.

Sure, grounding one stator also works but sounds like shit. Just ask the Audio Valve fanboy...

It's likely rising too much so not enough salt. The golden rule is 30gr per 1L of water. You can go up to 40gr for more flavor but also slower rise time.

The pcb sold above comes from that article so I'd assume they match.

Stax don't want you to change them so they are hard to get.

That one has nothing to do with the SRX... As you would expect from Audio Valve, major fail all around.

Best way to measure AC is reative to each other so for single tap, one end to the other. CT to each end etc. That's why you are getting results which make no sense. Also with everything off and not connected, measure the DCR of each of the windings. That will tell you if you have internal shorts.

Plenty of 7815/7915 supplies on ebay. Just replace the caps as they are probably fake.

How are you measuring this? To ground?

Doesn't matter which way it is wired.

Disconnect everything and then wire up the transformer again. I don't see how you could damage the transformer like that... Also, never power anything up without the first job being to test the voltages. Plenty of custom transformer options. None will look like the stock one though.

It's on hold for a friend.

600V multi conductor cable is very expensive and very hard to find unless you want to drop 2k$ on a whole roll.

Running dac's and other low power equipment 24/7 is a good idea. Nothing to do with phantom BS such as ghosts, burnin or elves, more that it takes a while to heat up the circuit and to get it to normal running temp. My MSB hasn't been turned off since I got it save for the few power cuts or me breaking down the system to clean.

Most of these connectors are rated to an AC voltage so the DC voltage will be much higher. If you want to go a bit cheaper then the Chinese Y2 connectors on ebay are pretty nice. Far from Amphenol quality but at a fraction of the price. For the Megatron's I'm planning it will be Fischer or other such insanity. Also, who says you can't build a KGSSHV which fits on a desk? Yes and yes.

Yes, that is wrong for this PSU.

Look at the old Blue Hawaii article on Headwise, it's pretty much the same psu. Zener string sets the output voltage and the board was designed for 400V use. If you set it to the stock values then that is 400V. The resistors should be the same.

The size of the heatsinks always reflects the difference between the raw DC off the rectifiers and the regulated voltage. The 2" sinks should be fine though.

That does look awesome!! One guy who recently got one of my KGST's said his old KGSSHV must have been broken...

Happy Birthday old man....

There are also the crazy Cardas ones but anything which connects pin 3 to pin 1 will work perfectly.

Yup, a bit smaller than the 727. Just finished a couple of them...

So true... so true.

The 009 isn't any easier to drive, it's just slightly more sensitive.