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Happy Birthday! add what Tyll said as well!

Read the reviews at the innerfidelity link. Forget about making much (if any) sense of most of what is regurgitated at head-fi. Barring that, what jantze said.

Nice Nate! and Chris! I was hoping to get in a ride either Friday or Saturday but the weather didn't cooperate, and I am just starting to get over a bad chest cold, so really didn't feel up to it anyhow. Today just sucks weather-wise, much like I am guessing Aimless1 is going thru.

Good idea, other than the math. He would wind up with 6 strips of 4 ea. at the end

Happy Birthday!

Kerry indicated in a previous post () that he had to drill the 10m90s and some of the FETs with a #28 bit to get those to fit. The part number appears to be correct Craig. Nice to have you back!

^ This as well.

Happy Birthday Jacob!

Looks great Tom! My brother still likes his proto unit. Not sure I would be directing twerps here from the website though... seems to be a rash of them lately

Best of luck Ric (and Melissa)!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Andy!

^That, plus use some PCB mount TO-3 sockets. Mouser has some Keystone ones. Or use solder tab sockets, and wire to the PCB. These look pretty decent. http://www.mcmelectr...product/21-1645 There are also Tyco (IIRC) sockets that look really nice, but are $$$ EDIT: Also, there are two lead diameters used on TO-3s (0.041 and 0.060"), and many sockets only accept the smaller diameter. Don't ask how I know

As far as I know, the US military does not use RoHS stuff but leaded solders. Kevin or someone more knowledgeable might know differently. I wonder how this effects RSA clams of mil-spec, yet selling into EU countries?

^This Hope your Mom gets better soon Vicki. Mike, I can't remember how long it took before I started getting better but my wife seemed to think 3 weeks or so? It's been awhile. Hang in there. And xN on the more piratey patch

Very interesting article, particularly the Is Lead Really the Problem. Most of us DIY'ers do not use lead free solders regularly (at least I don't).

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

^ Yes! Best of luck and hope you have fun Wayne!

Happy Birthday Ken!

Doesn't at least one of Apogee's designs approach (or hit) that?

I dunno, that seemed more like an architecture comment than a list of parts. If you want to be an undiscerning twat, then feel free to continue. To me, linear input stage, linear voltage gain stage, and linear output stage = neutral. I.E, wire with gain. The only possible problems could be the ability of the output stage to drive the load, or the level of feedback employed. Granted, parts of this thread may seem like a witch hunt to you, and that could be a valid comment. Your comment above though indicates just what I said. Perhaps the sound of KG's designs are not your cup of tea, but accusing them of not being neutral indicates a serious lack of understanding and/or comprehension IMHO. Lots of people like and or expect colored sound... just admit it and move on.

From my perspective, having built both a Dynalo and a Dynahi, I don't know how you could get much more neutral than one of these. Differential FET input stage (using the default K389/J109s that everyone uses such as Pass, John Curl, etc.), and VAS and output stages uses very linear BJTs, with DC coupling (no signal caps to voice the sound), I just don't see anything being much more linear (and therefore neutral) than that. If you like the Cavalli amp better, then great.

My condolences Mike.