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Yeah, funny that the pics don't match at all. Also, why 6 triodes to drive the output tubes balanced? You can do it with 8 but 6? I very much doubt it... Well unless the middle tube is a phase splitter and it's just a two section amp?

I was just reading HF and came across this "gem". It's not an amp...it's a "musical instrument"!! Yeah...what the fuck is it with Italian amps being garbage? Rudistor and now Megahertz... Bask in the glory of this hand built masterpiece: As soon as I saw this it was eerily familiar... So back in 1968 Stax released two schematics, the SRX and a simpler two tube design with grounded cathodes. Back in 2013 I released a schematic of a balanced take of that amp and built one unit. It was ok for a cheapo amp but yeah...nothing that sets the world on fire. Here is the schematic: Ok so let's look into this. Two 9 pin tubes so ECC83 input (pretty much has to be for enough gain) and any of the high power dual triode noval tubes. 6CG7 would work... So we clearly have a resistor loaded output stage with a grounded cathode and output caps (the big ones) and high value resistors after the cap to ground. The input is clearly balanced and not many versions of that possible with interstage caps. Electrolytic cathode bypass caps for higher gain and those silver things might be the input caps. Sure as shit there are four of them... Now for the PSU and just the parts quality... this sure as shit doesn't look regulated or filled with quality parts at all. I guess that and the mediocre circuitry makes this worth 1/2 of what Woo ask for the WES and a "musical instrument".

Excellent.

My GF's friend is in Miami now and was totally oblivious about what is going on. She's more worried about a pageant she was supposed to be attending on a cruise ship () and we've been trying to make her understand what is heading her way. On top of that, her hotel is on the beach...

Sören being a fucktard...glad to see nothing changes when I take a week off in Niagara. So pathetic... As for the review, if anybody thinks that I had anything to say about any of it... you have clearly never talked to Bob or followed any of his work. He told me he would write what he wanted and I got zero say in it, which is exactly what I wanted. This wasn't even supposed to be a review, he just asked me if he could borrow a Carbon to give the 007's an equal platform against the dynamic competition. I was happy to oblige, sent him my personal Carbon and also offered him a Pure Bipolar to try out, to create an even more even playing field. Both sets being driven balanced with amps that share the same design ideas. This was back in February or March and it was only after he'd heard that this grew into a kind of review. I knew he liked them as he bought the Pure Bipolar and will probably buy the Carbon as well but I didn't have any idea what he would write. Hell I didn't even know when it was posted, I only heard about it when my inbox lit up. Now normally I would never even entertain the idea of having reviews as pretty much all are garbage, done by people with the integrity of used care salesmen/realtors and are just verbal diarrhea. Just look at the garbage Jude is posting and he's far from the worst. You may disagree with Bob's findings all you want but he sure as shit is more entitled to his opinion that most. He did expose Focal and I know from experience that it isn't easy to hold up an opinion that goes against the "norm", no matter how wrong the "norm" may be. I have fond memories of the death threats I got from some unstable people after I said the HE90's were far from the best. I can also imagine how happy Focal were about all of this...

Don't remember...

Yeah, some 600V teflon tubing would be a good idea there.

So this would be Stax Lambda's then? It is some petroleum based glue and it is really nasty. Better than the current shit though which just doesn't work... To remove it I use a basic adhesive removal liquid and not a lot of it. Then just pick some nice 3M double sided adhesive.

Truly what the SR-009's need, 8dB down at 20khz will take care of that nasty treble harshness and any HF performance altogether...

Wow thanks for the info as that puts this into a whole other light. So this is basically an Egmont or what Schiit deemed too bad an amp for 1k$... Here is the datasheet for the tube: http://www.nj7p.info/Tubes/PDFs/Frank/113-Soviet/6S3PE.pdf So we have only four triodes per side so it has to be this: About as simple as you can get and to charge people 5kUKP for this is just robbery. Funny enough, I made my own version of what I thought the amp was in the same form factor. Just sent the PCB's off to be made yesterday so I'll have something built soon... Only 39mm tall with a bone stock SRX input based on the 6N2P (though any compatible tube will plug in there) and 6N6Pi output with a simple 10M90 CCS. Only two coupling caps but with this novel idea of feedback...

True HC style then we'd be talking about an Accuphase E-600...

Welcome to the glorious world of high voltage.

It's funny with Tidal, they always recommend JayZ... for some reason... I thought the whole reason to pay for this shit was not to get ads for things one could not care less about?

There is certainly a lot of diodes on the center board but yeah, those heatsinks are tiny. They pretty much have to be 6N6pi's as nothing else would fit.

Well 50 years old but yeah... I kinda want to make a clone of this but better done and sell if for a lot less.

I agree, no HV regulation there and I found another pic taken at the same time: A few things spring to mind, see the red and black wires coming off the input board? Has to be the input wiring for the amplifier channels so they must just be on those small side boards. Also, they used the same twisted wire for the output wiring so the left channel has a bit more capacitance to drive. Pure engineering excellence here... I dug through the Russian tubes out there and the outputs sure look like 6N6pi and the inputs pretty much have to be 6N2pi which is the noval version of the 6SL7. Also the small PCB with seemingly few parts sure points to the SRX. This company also doesn't do SMD so that isn't an option to hide parts.

Now that this amp has been released and we finally have an internal pic, it is time for a dedicated thread. Here is some info about the launch event: http://hifilounge.tumblr.com/post/162193518708/trilogy-h1-energiser-for-stax-earspeakers-launch So 5000UKP... and nothing else which is relevant at all. The usual HF retards claiming this was the second coming and all that BS but here are the internals...enjoy: Not the best quality but good enough to know what is going on. In before Jim and yup...this looks a lot like an SRX. Some Russian dual triodes for the input and those look a lot like 6N6pi's to me. Two plate resistors as well. So over all, a pretty horrible way to spend 5000UKP...

Sorry for your loss Kerry

I went to the thrift store and there was nothing cool there until I saw this on a bottom shelf... They were asking 20$ with stickers that they were unsure if it worked so perfect for me. This is a PSU for Mackie mixing desks with a super long umbilical cable which I have removed. Heavy fucker too... at least 10kg. Healthy output current so the idea came into my head to use it as a bench supply should it work. After some cleaning it looked ok with no bad caps or any visible damage. Just look at that monster of a transformer. So I turned it on and well it worked so this was next: No current limiting here but hey, this one was cheap so who cares. Also I can test large class A amps with this beast.

Clearly superior to the T2...

They know about us and do care to some degree but are mostly annoyed by our comments...

Very good day...

Nope, that was the 007's and the SR-Omega. The SR-009 is the overpriced hype product...

Never seen that happen. Was it one of those cheapo hot air systems?