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I think these were what you were looking for from ratshack: RadioShack.com - Cables, Parts & Connectors: Component parts: Diodes & rectifiers

Very good imaging, but huge sweet spot, which is one thing I like... you can move around and not lose alot. Contrast that with my twin brother's Apogees... move 1" and you lose it (or so it seems). Nice neutral midrange as well (IMO). My younger brother bought a pair of these and from his description of them, I bought mine without having listened to them. Not the best way of buying speakers, but I knew my brother's hearing and mine matched up well, so if he liked them I was pretty certain I would as well.

I like my VR4s. I'm sure there are much better speakers (these can be upgraded to VR5s I guess) but they are just fine. I've had them probably 8 years or so.

This thin may not use any PCB traces in the signal path, but there has to be alot more than 1.5"-2" of wire. Each of those cables is soldered into the PCB to anchor it, and comes from an RCA jack. More than 2" right there. I would guess that the connection is p-p wired on the bottom from these cables to the relay signal terminals, then these have to go from the entry relay to another or other relays, each wired with additional wire, then finally back to another relay and to another jack. Kind of an over the top cool piece of gear, but as Nate said, at the end of the day, it is only a switchbox. Albeit one with alot of features probably not present on any other piece of gear (ABX testing, etc. from the sounds of it, though I did not read the entire product lit. nor the review).

There is always the Dantimax stuff Dantimax (elektronik) - Selectors_-_attenuators. Somewhat similar to Twisted Pear offerings; the Input 2 offers 2 balanced inputs and 3 SE. I'd need to look at the Manley thing again, but $900 sounds insane for a source selector.

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That would be worthwhile provided they come up with it. Sounds like its a good chance that they will. Interesting site, I may have to dig thru that one some. Thanks!

FTFY. I would guess they lied about stock status?

Win! Here I thought you were just showing off your desoldering equipment

I'd take a look here. DIYHiFi.org • View topic - Ground question

A pair of tickets to see U2 Sept. 13th at Soldier Field, Chicago. Actually, my wife bought them, I'm a bit meh about seeing them again. Main reason I went the last two times were the backup bands (PJ Harvey and Garbage). I'd rather be seeing Ken's show (NIN ) Oh well, should be OK.

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KG has one of these in his Dynahi, and I suspect also in the DynaFETs he built. I played around with the Dynahi at a meet and the PG was nice. Very nice.

Good thinking; you're already getting the neighbors used to it. Now when the second and succeeding pallets appear, no problem

Nice work!

Cute. Is that a hifi2000 case? Nice whatever it is. Latest: 1/4 lb Cardas Quad solder 2 Caddock TF020s 40 PRP 20 ohm 1 Dynamicap (burnt one up ) 4 Cardas RCAs Neotech 1 Blackgate Std

The shovel is the proven implement for these kinds of things...

Well, I neglected to mention that at $2 apiece, they are a rip. But, in an emergency... Mouser catalog page showing shoulder washers, mounting kits, etc. http://www.mouser.com/catalog/637/1936.pdf

You will likely also need the nylon shoulder washers that insulate the screw from the device tab (if metal). Ratshack sells these TO-220 Mounting Hardware - RadioShack.com

Access to the Eagle files would take care of that issue...

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I don't know about that. TKD's datasheet for the CP2500/2511 pots only shows stereo (2CP2511 for example), but the german seller thel.de clearly has up to 8 gang versions of these available. If those aren't real TKD, they are a damn good clone.

Percy Audio is the only place I know of that sells these. I've never used one.

From amb.org: Please note that in the 3-channel "active ground" configuration, some part values in the ground channel differ from that of the left and right channels. See the following table: Part Left & Right channels Ground channel R1 475Ω (not used) R2 1MΩ 1KΩ R3 (see table below) 2.49KΩ R4 (see table below) 2.49KΩ C2-C5 (see table below) 100pF The following table shows the left and right channel part values when building the β22 with a non-default voltage gain (gain of 8x is the default): L & R Part Gain 11x Gain 8x Gain 5x Gain 2x R3 100Ω 182Ω 392Ω 2.49KΩ R4 1KΩ 1.21KΩ 1.5KΩ 2.49KΩ C2-C5 22pF 33pF 47pF 100pF These values were carefully tuned for the an optimal combination of speed/bandwidth and stability. The β22 should not be operated with a gain of less than 2x.

Since that DAC is SMD, it might be rather easy to just parallel a resistor on top of the current I/V resistor. Figuring out which is the I/V resistor might be somewhat fun, though it would be on the first opamps. It would need to be lowered some in value to decrease the output level, so paralleling a 10K or something might be good. Lowest gain on the beta is 2, so no joy there.