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He did, and he's not telling (they (2) haven't arrived yet).

Crappy, The problem is that the fans aren't fed from the same power supply as the B+ and to make everything contingent upon the fans starting up would probably mean rewiring the whole amp, which isn't even an option with the pcb. Or if it is an option it's one hell of a coincidence. What might be more appropriate is to have some sort of thermal fuse on the AC inlet, but I'm not sure they much such a device that would be sensitive enough yet not too sensitive. Bottom line, if it were my amp I'd take the occasional casual glance inside the chassis to see how the caps were fairing at a minimum.

Best I could do on short notice.

Joke aside - what happens when one of the invariably shitty computer fans fails and the temps skyrocket? I wonder if there are any thermal protection devices outside of the 2, $3 fans?

If you feel up to emptying your wallet Jim I think that amp should be able to run 5998s on the output without modification and they should sound quite a bit better than just about any 6080 variant you'll find. The 6080, in my experience, is a pretty tubby sounding tube. Another "leaner" option would be the 7236, but again I'd have to scour datasheets to make sure you wouldn't be overloading the heater power supply.

It would be safe to say that I felt like it was the least I could do.

X2 Rekindling "friendships" with x-girlfriends is a slippery slope.

I'm really glad that NAD carcass went to good use.

How many choices do you really even have? Maybe 5 or so including the Apple Cinema Display? And holy hell, I hope someone else is paying for it or you've got a damn good reason to want a ~$1500 computer monitor.

Vincent, If you don't take Mike up on his offer feel free to PM me if I can help.

Blue Locktite 8" Tie Straps Misc. Fastener Hardware Time to get busy building.

Just PM when you've you got the measurements Smeggy, I have quite the collection of Nylon Multifilament.

bunch o' post whores, the lot of them. (says #11 )

The first legit use of a locking RCA I've seen, nice.

Impossible, don't even bother trying. I've never successfully ordered all the parts for a project from one source.

I actually prefer the D-sonic look.

That's what I figured, but just wanted to be clear before someone read it the wrong way and got all pissy.

You're not implying that the Purity design is shit though, right? I don't know enough to judge.

No idea what it sounds like but it certainly appears to be fully discrete to my untrained eye. Not sure what that's worth exactly (being fully discrete) though since I've heard plenty of opamp based designs that sounded great as well.

It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that bling, Jacob. And honestly, it was one of those moments of inspirado where you find a semi-elegant solution to a problem that's been pissing you off for years so there was no way I wasn't going to do it.

Indeed.

Not to mention a dedicated breaker for for just the amps.