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SWEET! Loving the huge beefy volume knob. The back panel is also very nicely done. Great job!
Thanks guys
The knob is the biggest that Hifi2000 has, 50mm. I've been designing those panels for a long time now. At the last minute I change the backpanel completely, throwing out my original design. I think the Maroon Audio logo turned out really well, just the way I wanted it. Sort of like the Krell logo, deep and heavy Its not fully wired up yet, since I changed my umbilical connectors to 8-pole speakons, which by the way cost a fortune. Also no leds yet either.
The panels for my b22 arrived today from Front Panel Express...
A pleasure to see such a great work at this place... now and then.
Two HiFi-2000 Slim Line 2U enclosures? Are the back panels FPE materials or are these the original back panels of the Slim Line enclosures?
And the engraving text, is it white painted or is it just non-painted aluminium? Looking forward to see the final results!
__________________ Marantz SA11-S1 => Balanced β22 => Sennheiser HD 650
A pleasure to see such a great work at this place... now and then.
Two HiFi-2000 Slim Line 2U enclosures? Are the back panels FPE materials or are these the original back panels of the Slim Line enclosures?
And the engraving text, is it white painted or is it just non-painted aluminium? Looking forward to see the final results!
Thank you
Yeah, two Hifi2000 enclosures, they are really great to work with. The backpanels are from FPE, its just easier than sending the original panels. Might be worth it if you buy the 10mm one though, they will look better than FPEs. The engraved text is painted white.
The power supply is supposed to have Hifi2000 feet and the amp itself will have spikes to rest on. I just havent gotten that far yet. Now all I need is the Buffalo DAC
How did you implement that back light and what are those audio jacks? I would like something similar to my balanced B22 as well. If you ordered your front panels from FPE, do you still have the files?
I'm still wondering which audio jacks and XLR connector should I use. Either Neutrik XLR's and the same audio jack as you have or then I just put Neutrik XLR Combo Series connectors, since I don't use SE when I would be using balanced connectors.
I'm going to use HIFI2000 slim line 2U casing for the build and I'm sending my front panels to Front Panel Express.
The back light is implemented as follows: the volume pot is mounted on a piece of plexiglass behind the face plate while the face plate cut out surrounding the volume knop is a bit larger than the volume knop itself. Then use one (or a couple of) super bright LED behind the face plate to create the blue light, which is visible on the front via the plexiglass. The headphone jacks used on my amp are from Neutrik, as visible in the pic below.
If you prefer a clean implementation of the face plate and also want to have unbalanced headphone jack for the convenience, then the Neutrik XLR Combo connector is a better choice.
__________________ Marantz SA11-S1 => Balanced β22 => Sennheiser HD 650
The back light is implemented as follows: the volume pot is mounted on a piece of plexiglass behind the face plate while the face plate cut out surrounding the volume knop is a bit larger than the volume knop itself.
Did you glue the plexiglass behind the face plate?
And thank you for your excellent tips and builds! After drooling over most of your builds, I'm getting a balanced b22 myself.
If the builder is wiling to reveal himself, I don't mind
Very nice! Looking good.
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