Very exotic casework there, Selexus. Congratulations. Are those two copper-colored tubes strictly cosmetic? Do they contain anything?
The tubes are 16swg copper polished and then laquered, and yes just cosmetic. I had to fill the gaps with something
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The power transformer looms rather close to the input circuitry on the PPA board, though. Do you notice any induced hum?
Not at normal levels. If i turn things to max with no source playing i can hear a faint hum. Not enough to ever worry about. My hearing is so shot these days that it wouldn't make a lot of difference to me anyway :600smile:
... I had a couple of the powermates (in silver) floating around. ...
Do you have any more floating around that you might want to sell? I always wanted to try one out but not at the $40-$50 pricetag. Awesome casing btw! Are those cones Vibapods (or something similar) or home grown?
Do you have any more floating around that you might want to sell? I always wanted to try one out but not at the $40-$50 pricetag.
I've got one left that i'm going to use on the HTPC. I would recomend them, they're well made, stylish and practical.
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Awesome casing btw! Are those cones Vibapods (or something similar) or home grown?
The feet are turned on the lathe by me, from the same bar as the rest of the turned parts. There is an allen bolt coming up from the foot through the copper and into an ali ring inside the long copper tube. This clamps the foot assy to the tube. A rubber blanking grommet is then fitted into the "point" of the cone to blank off the hole and provide a soft insulating foot.
Well after a little trouble with the volume led ring (my fault) my PPA is up and running.
Once it's run in i'll think about diamond buffers, biasing and crossfeed.
I'm really proud of the case, it's the first one i've made and nearly turned out as i'd intended. I'm currently running it from the onboard sound of my pc and it sounds great. The next stage is to build a custom pc into a similar chassis with an RME soundcard, mount a behringer dcx2496 into another similar box and finally build some similar looking gainclone power amps. I'll finally have the system i'll be happy with (i think ).
I bet you could sell those things. It looks really neat.
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I bet you could sell those things. It looks really neat.
Do you think so . I really enjoyed making it and am really looking forward to makeing a matching PC, power amp, and Xover.
I'd be more than happy to make something similar for anyone who wants one :allteeth: .
Do you think so . I really enjoyed making it and am really looking forward to makeing a matching PC, power amp, and Xover.
I'd be more than happy to make something similar for anyone who wants one :allteeth: .
Here you find the information regarding the development of the PPA and a list of builders. Believe me, if I had the money I would ask you for an amp rigth now. Your work is really nice looking. And a matching PC would appeal to many here. Think about it, really.
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Well after a little trouble with the volume led ring (my fault) my PPA is up and running.
Once it's run in i'll think about diamond buffers, biasing and crossfeed.
I'm really proud of the case, it's the first one i've made and nearly turned out as i'd intended. I'm currently running it from the onboard sound of my pc and it sounds great. The next stage is to build a custom pc into a similar chassis with an RME soundcard, mount a behringer dcx2496 into another similar box and finally build some similar looking gainclone power amps. I'll finally have the system i'll be happy with (i think ).
Yeah i'm here.
I'm trying to decide whether to offer this chassis and similar models to people !
Maybe if anyone who is interested could drop me a line i'd have an idea if it was something worth persuing.
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. I really enjoyed making it and am really looking forward to makeing a matching PC, power amp, and Xover. 
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