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I may have to start looking into this as well. I have all the parts, just no time.

I wonder how hard it would be to mod this thing for balanced output? Seems to me that if it's already trafo-coupled then it should be pretty straightforward.

wait till you hear them with better amps, deepak. If your experience mirrors that of Dan and I at the National Meet I think you'll find the stock amp pretty worthless.

Jack, in all seriousness if anyone asked me to build this thing for them they'd better be prepared for price tag in the high four figures (decimal points need not apply). It is massively complicated, has an extremely high parts density (easy to frack up) and absolutely requires a tank of a chassis.

Rough estimates are north of a grand, however Ti's example cost a lot more than that. I'd budget at least 2 grand, probably more.

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This day will now lack teh funnay. RIP, George.

How long till these take a vacation in NH?

It's power output is equally as impressive: 170W+ in 8ohm, 320W+ into 4ohm, before clipping.

This one is for all you speaker guys. I figured that most of you don't venture over the Headwize very often and honestly, this thing is so freakin' over the top that I just had to post it here. This amp will debut at the Norcal meet this weekend and holy heck I wish I could be there to see it. Project Development Thread: Click Here And hopefully Ti won't mind if I link to just a few of his images in this thread. Honestly, it's one of the most impressive builds that I've ever seen. Front Back Internal

It would be funny if that didn't hold at least some truth currently. :eek:

1988 John Deere 318 Garden Tractor

Congrats Ian. I met her yesterday and she seemed like she'll be a great dog.

Happy Birthday!

Those are the black gate power supply caps (I'm pretty sure) which as others have mentioned were probably a $500 upgrade. However, after reading Justin's post about the "options" on this particular amp I'm sort of confused since it sounds like it's somehow single-ended instead of the normal balanced configuration?

The steppers are stock so I have no idea what upgraded attenuator their could be.

Yeah, those honking caps out the back are the BG upgrade as far as I know which in some ways would explain the high asking price. Still not sure retail would push $3k, justin is really the only one who can answer that definitively, or someone else who bought a BG'ed KGSS from Headamp.

Right now he's asking more than retail, which I'd point out to him in a polite way if I was negotiating. So unless there are other upgrades like BG's or something that he didn't mention I wouldn't offer more than ~$1500 or so.

Depends on who built it. In this case, since it's from headamp it's worth a good bit more than a DIY version in my opinion. New they are ~$1995, which includes the stepper upgrade so his asking price seems pretty steep.

My wife and I want to someday since we live about 10 miles from a track. Life does not permit the introduction of a dog at this point though.

So, anyone willing to sponsor me when I use 6 of them as output coupling caps on a Millett Starving Student Hybrid?

Is that thing really 1,000,000 uF? :confused:

Friggen sweet dude, can't wait to meet him/her. And pics or ban tonight. Oh, one more thing, I can't wait to hear what Zoe thinks...

Dan, At some point the economics of building such systems just isn't going to matter since it's going to be the only way to get around. But Dusty's right, mass transit isn't an option for me although I certainly could do my part and get a more fuel efficient vehicle to commute in.

Todd, I don't think that there's much hope for increasing supply for a decreasing commodity. And from what I've read the potential supply available from offshore drilling would have zero effect on the situation until ~2030.