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Most electra-print trafos/chokes/etc are custom orders so yes I'm sure you can call/email and get the same thing if that's who made them for Pete. But that's hardly an "off the shelf" item. It shouldn't come as a shock to anyone to find out that the amp uses current production parts. The idea wasn't to create something that could only be built a finite number of time or never repaired in kind. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that more than just the chassis is custom. Pete designed it from the ground up, layout and all and went through several circuit and part revisions before settling on what is the production version. You make it sound like he called up a couple companies, ordered some parts and slapped them in a custom chassis. That's pretty off base from where I sit.

Nope, I just don't use it on headphones anymore since the Cardas connectors are color coded.

He's not in the high end headphone hobby any more, he's strictly low end speakers.

A box of spare parts.

One other thing to consider is that if anyone is planning to go the speaker output route I'd recommend putting a Zobel on the outputs. I've actually worked up a little Zobel PCB that I'll be ordering a few of if is interested.

Glad to hear you're home and the prognosis, while painful, is that you will remain with us for quite some time.

The DVR is ready for action!

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Man those look f'ing sweet!

I think Kevin is saying he's either 4 - 4 or 8 - 8, I do not believe he's offering to build for others or asking someone to build for him.

I believe that you can request that they send an additional front panel in lieu of the back panel. I'm pretty sure that's what amb did with his beta24.

Yup, that's a CPBP-CRS.

Right, that would make a lot more sense.

1. When you say case costs are you including the various finishing bits and pieces or do you just mean raw chassis including panel fab? If it's the latter and you go single chassis figure $200 for just the bones. The chassis once it gets shipped will probably run ~$100 and having both panels done will probably run another $100 (maybe less, maybe more). Of course that leaves you a long way from a finished case but you know that. I'd bet I spent ~$300 on Mike's beta22 including the knobs, switches, RCA's, IEC, etc. 2. You do not want to be mounting the trafo to a PCB, or at least I wouldn't. For me and my money and with the size of the sucker you're talking here I'd want that beast bolted to metal and no chance of shock loading a solder joint or pcb with anything else attached to it.

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Yes, I am a pirating bastard. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (pre-release)

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Yeah, I could use a laugh today so keep 'em coming.

I'm in favor of prototyping as well. It'd be a pisser to order 100 fubar'd PCBs.

Serious consideration will have to be given to how to handle the money so that paypal doesn't eat you guys alive for fees.

Given the magnitude of what we're talking about here I think that there is going to have to be one, central money collector who can distribute funds to the individual buyers prior to purchase. It wouldn't surprise me if we order $1000 or more of just transformers, the potted and shielded units are probably going to run $75 each or so.