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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.

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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.

I'm not sure how that happened as the previous version was just fine. I blame the software...

Fairly sure it is Panasonic....

Doesn't matter which 2705 you use. Ahh so that's what those look like when the max height of any component isn't equal to the terminal blocks...

I haven't fired one of these up yet so there might be more gremlins hiding somewhere. It was a bit of a challenge to make it this small in the first place and then add the servo...

Just so you know, there is an error on that board... The lower A970 is the wrong way around. Ohh and take care with that empty hole in the top center. Very easy to make that go all arcy sparky.

There is a huge difference between the mosfets and the BJT's with the latter being far superior. That said I have the newest onboard PCB's should anybody need some.

It looks ok but I'd go for a single 30VCT@500ma winding instead of two separate windings.

This one would work with 500V capacitors (450V might be ok but we don't work well with "might") and larger heatsinks in the PSU. http://www.antekinc.com/as-1t300-100va-300v-transformer/