Post pics of your builds....

[drewd]

Originally Posted by DIAR

My DACT CT2 passive preamp.

http://kotiweb.kotiportti.fi/audiovideo/DIY/preamp1/



My first post Hi everybody !

Beautiful - I'm a big fan of minimalism!

Edit: Anybody interested in building their own enclosure really ought to take a look at DIAR's web link. It is one of the finest descriptions of how to build a case that I've ever seen!

-Drew

[Megaptera]

Originally Posted by DIAR

My DACT CT2 passive preamp.

http://kotiweb.kotiportti.fi/audiovideo/DIY/preamp1/

Beautiful work, Diar -- do you get any crosstalk between the inputs at all?

[amb]

DIAR, beautiful work there, congratulations. One question: why such a big case and extension shafts? It seems that for just two switches and an attenuator you could have made it much smaller. Did you simply want something that looked more substantial?

Anyway, welcome to head-fi and sorry about your wallet. :600smile:

[amb]

I've posted about my amp some months back, but here it is again

Full info here: http://www.amb.org/ti/audio/beta18.html

[DIAR]

Originally Posted by amb

DIAR, beautiful work there, congratulations. One question: why such a big case and extension shafts? It seems that for just two switches and an attenuator you could have made it much smaller. Did you simply want something that looked more substantial?

Anyway, welcome to head-fi and sorry about your wallet. :600smile:

Thanks for kind words
Great designs here. I really like the caramel box enclosure

No crosstalk. Not one bit. I did the wiring the hard way and used coaxial cable to prevent any crostalk or interference. It was worth it.

I made the enclosure a bit bigger than was necessary for a few reasons:
1. If I feel the need for volume remote control, there is enough room for Bent Audio remote control unit. Unfortunately the system is very expensive.
2. It looks better :allteeth:
3. I'm working on a tube preamp and I wan't all my enclosures to be pretty much similar also in the future.

This seems to be a great forum. I've been mostly on Finnish forums and in DIYAudio. At the moment I concentrate on modding my CDP and. I'm building two different regulators for Tentlabs XO clock next week. Modding would be impossible for me without these forums.

So much to do and so little time

[skyskraper]

maybe its time to finish my cmoy's and case em up

[DaKi][er]

Pimeta with internal psu



mints

[skyskraper]

hey dakiller, what psu are u using, and how's it affected the sound by keeping it internal on the pimeta???

[seiko_citizen]

whoa! how many more mints do you need there DaKi][er *big grin*?

[DaKi][er]

Originally Posted by skyskraper

hey dakiller, what psu are u using, and how's it affected the sound by keeping it internal on the pimeta???

its a 30v ac transformer (5va i think from memory), through a full wave bridge with just 1n4007 diodes (i got 100's of them in my box of bits) a 2200uf cap, then an lm317t voltage regulator set to 24v
this thing is dropping 17-18v on the regulator, which isnt too efficient and gets fairly warm but not hot and the whole design is really just tangents STEPS psu with some of the extra 'stuff' cut out

i cant get the standard Elpac wallwarts that everyone seems to use here in 240v versions so i make my own

Originally Posted by seiko_citizen

whoa! how many more mints do you need there DaKi][er *big grin*?

well there is another 2 that are in penguin lights tins that arnt in that pic