nikongod Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 hehe, add up the price of all of the options. For the same price as upgrading both sets of caps you can have the BHSE with no caps. No cap is as good as no cap at all. What do you mean by "wasn't supposed to"? The early speculation & guesses was that it was going to be a Stax-SRX/SP ES1 which does not require output caps. The nice thing about using output caps is of course that the amp can be made self/auto/fixed-biasing. Speaking with Jack Woo about the amp, Im still not clear on what it is ( he said its basically a GES on steroids, but then what is the phase splitter tube that was recently added for? and how does the amp have balanced inputs: the GES circuit can not accept balanced ins... too many things dont add up. Most likely he just didn't want to tell me what it was, which is understandable because nobody {except nelson pass who dosnt seem to care at all} likes people looking at schematics for amps they are trying to sell. ) but he did tell me that the output uses plate chokes which is pretty slick. Dunno if its slick enough to justify the use of a second set of caps in the signal path, but slick. Perhaps its something like an SRX/ES-1 but built with a single supply? aaah, the rampant speculation continues. Quote
luvdunhill Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 What do you mean by "wasn't supposed to"? My guess is Spritzer is referring to a rumor that it was DC coupled throughout. Quote
spritzer Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 What do you mean by "wasn't supposed to"? The output stage in the prototype was supposed to be DC coupled i.e. tubes to the headphones with nothing in between. They had issues with that so could have reverted back to the basic design of that circuit, i.e. the 2uf caps. Quote
Asr Posted August 20, 2009 Report Posted August 20, 2009 I received word of the amp's dimensions from Jack today, as I recently inquired about them: 16.5"x12"x4" (height includes feet). +3.5" for the plastic panel. Wait, "plastic"? I thought it was acrylic, but that's what Jack said.... Quote
penger Posted August 20, 2009 Report Posted August 20, 2009 Is there a benefit to either? Other than the coolness factor of having acrylic? Quote
guzziguy Posted August 20, 2009 Report Posted August 20, 2009 Wait, "plastic"? I thought it was acrylic, but that's what Jack said.... Acrylic is a plastic. Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted August 20, 2009 Report Posted August 20, 2009 Yeah, I'm hoping not the melty kind. Quote
n_maher Posted August 20, 2009 Report Posted August 20, 2009 (edited) Wait, "plastic"? I thought it was acrylic, but that's what Jack said.... Poly(methyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hard to imagine it getting anywhere near hot enough to melt. Edited August 21, 2009 by n_maher Quote
swt61 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Posted August 21, 2009 Since knocking up his wife, he's had to learn to be flexible with the interchangeability of 'hot' and 'not'. Quote
screaming oranges Posted October 30, 2009 Report Posted October 30, 2009 Well, it certainly looks nice still Woo Audio WES - Love at first sight! - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted October 30, 2009 Report Posted October 30, 2009 Jesus Christ! @ the crate. My AudioValve RKV comes a distant second. Quote
penger Posted October 30, 2009 Report Posted October 30, 2009 Dude that's a lot of foam too. Impressive packing. Quote
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