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I didn't do the final layout of the that board...

Yup, those are fake as with most of these things from Dalbani.

Around 1300Vppss and the gain is 500/1000 Edit: An updated on the KGDT is in order. First run of PCB's is here and I'm assembling them when I find time from the other 12 amps I'm working on...

Lack of anything relevant for a long time now means nobody cares about EC. A bit like Ray in that regard. Pfft who needs fets when we have bipolars...

It's hard to fix something like that. It's simply Stax caught up in the "OMG this new film is awesome" BS so hopefully they will make something less glaring next time around.

I think nobody cares about EC anymore so Cavalli has to be their new champion. I mean the Lau is a piece of shit which will proven soon enough when I buy one for Kevin to rip apart. To people who know fuck all about circuits or amplifiers in general it must be a godsend though as it hides how crappy the rest of the system is and it costs a lot. The latter is especially important to further back up the illusion that it isn't actually terrible.

The 207 is even brighter but for the price they are hard to beat. The brightness is nowhere near as bad as the 507 otherwise they would get to know a hammer up close...

Looks real to me.

I don't think there is a terminal block out that that can take 600VAC. Nice work John.

So a notoriously bright-ish headphone sounds bright off a highly transparent amplifier? What an utter shocker we have there... I do like the comment that the amp somehow makes the source sound non-analog. How the fuck is that possible? I guess these fucktards are confusing analog and lush as no MSB source I've ever heard sounds lush. A bit on the dry and sterile side would be closer to the mark but that's what one expects from something as ruthlessly revealing.

My first all black KGSSHV: Soft white power light...

This would be a good example of not real... http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.274.VYCKXq&id=35575378373&ns=1#detail I might have cleared out that place in Japan as I just bought a lot of 1968's. 1967's also work but then you have to insulate them. See here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/swap-meet/34929-fs-sanyo-2sc3675-2sa1967-hi-voltage-transistors.html

The depreciation of the LLmk2 I was just offered is in excess of 60% is less than a year so people have to be bonkers to buy this crap. I truly love the use of the 6S4A as a gain device and not the output tube. Let's not use the component that is perfect for that role, nope let's use some high capacitance mosfets instead. The LDR is also too stupid to fathom and that on top of the drv134 distortion means pure win.

The SR-3N was always one of my least favorite ones. I do own mint sets of all of them though.

If you are a sponsor over there anything negative about you will be removed but if you won't pay, nobody gives a fuck.

That's good to hear. :´)

Happy Birthday Todd!!!

As a fan of cramped builds I like that one.

Proven yet again that transformers and electrostatics don't mix.

The Stax amps have a surge suppressor which is a cap and a resistor in series inside one box. It's more to protect the switch than anything else.

Big hugs my friend!!!

That amp has a few 1k$ silver caps and the not so cheap Sowter transformer volume control but polishing a turd comes to mind. For that amount of money you could easily build a T2 with dual power supplies and teflon PCB's. You can get the RKV pcb off ebay as a fully assembled kit. Not worth it though...

He did post that Demograf amp at some time claiming it was awesome. I can't say I'm impressed as it is just a glorified take on a Western Electric design and far removed from what we would call state of the art. I like reading the Russian forums as even though there is a company building Blue Hawaii's without permission most of the design work is with tube amps that could have been built in the 50's. One of the latest ones even uses an Eimac tube for the output but not a CCS in sight ever even *gasp* regulated power supplies. Each to his own and all that but things have moved on from 20% tolerance resistors and AC coupling.

Here's the thing, I don't think it uses better parts than the SRD-7. Transformers for electrostatics are the height of this particular black art and I doubt Audio Valve are sourcing properly made ones. The SRD-7 units are small but made for electrostatic loads with low parasitic C. I'm sure this will be shilled like the second coming by that half-wit eric65 but then again he ran the SR-009 single ended and claimed it sounded awesome!!!!!

The servo cap issue was just with the latest KGSSHV board so I'm not sure what is going on. Might have updated the component which set the CAD into some fury, who knows. I just drilled them out with a 1mm drill as all the traces are on the bottom so the connection in the hole isn't needed.