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Posted: February 8th, 2019, 6:25 pm
Hi,
I build things occasionally (pre-amps, d/a convertors, interconnects). My most recent project was to re-chassis an AR-XB turntable that was originally purchased at the Dixie Hi-Fi location in PG County, sometime not too short of 50 years ago.
My system consists of Magneplanars (I have the 3.7i, 3.6 and III in various places in my basement), the 3.7s are driven by a Krell amp and source by an Allen Wright-modded Sony SCD-1. They are supplemented by DIY subwoofers in a distributed configuration, lo-passed by mini-DSP at 30 Hz and driven by some nondescript Class-D amps. There are all linked together by DIY wiring.
I've been getting the jones lately to build an electrostatic headphone amp. If I sit long enough and ponder the effort involved the feelings may pass. In case they don't, I am looking at something over-the-top, tubes, room-heater scale standing power dissipation...
If someone had told be 25 years ago that finding the tubes I need for this would be easy, that the common-as-dirt transistors would be the hard things to source, and that there would be a thriving counterfeit market in said transistors, I would have gently told him I would stay with him until he came down and his hallucinations had passed.
But here we are.
There seems to be a lot of experience in the club with handling lethal voltages so what could go wrong?
And when my ego seems too large for the world to contain, I will try to add a new clock and power supply to my Pono player to take myself down a few notches.
I build things occasionally (pre-amps, d/a convertors, interconnects). My most recent project was to re-chassis an AR-XB turntable that was originally purchased at the Dixie Hi-Fi location in PG County, sometime not too short of 50 years ago.
My system consists of Magneplanars (I have the 3.7i, 3.6 and III in various places in my basement), the 3.7s are driven by a Krell amp and source by an Allen Wright-modded Sony SCD-1. They are supplemented by DIY subwoofers in a distributed configuration, lo-passed by mini-DSP at 30 Hz and driven by some nondescript Class-D amps. There are all linked together by DIY wiring.
I've been getting the jones lately to build an electrostatic headphone amp. If I sit long enough and ponder the effort involved the feelings may pass. In case they don't, I am looking at something over-the-top, tubes, room-heater scale standing power dissipation...
If someone had told be 25 years ago that finding the tubes I need for this would be easy, that the common-as-dirt transistors would be the hard things to source, and that there would be a thriving counterfeit market in said transistors, I would have gently told him I would stay with him until he came down and his hallucinations had passed.
But here we are.
There seems to be a lot of experience in the club with handling lethal voltages so what could go wrong?
And when my ego seems too large for the world to contain, I will try to add a new clock and power supply to my Pono player to take myself down a few notches.