Posts by JMS

Gold generally makes the component look better, and better looks improve sound. That is certainly measurable.

aos, can you tell us where you get the gold plated ones, I assume the NJ3FP6C-B? There have been discussions before and nobody seems to carry them.

Try doing a search here. There are many posts on the RA-1. Particular interesting are the ones that reveal the RA-1 to be a simple CMOY circuit worth about $5 in parts.

...and how much longer till completion?

How difficult is the soldering going to be for this thing? Sounds like at least 4X24 for attaching switch to board, and 4X24 for the resistors themselves. That's a total of 192 solder points.

Thanks for your efforts, morsel, and the rest of the PPA team.

Quote: Again, you can't say that the hole should be there only if crossfeed is wanted. Oh, absolutely. What I mean is, crossfeed (or bass boost) is not too important for me, but if the reference design/face plate...

My preferences: 1. Any gold-plated RCA jacks, such as Radio Shack's. 2. One set of input RCA's, one set of output RCA's in parallel with headphone jack. Both sets on the back panel. 3. Any good-looking 1/4" jack is fine. I...

Tangent: I hadn't thought about the routing issues you brought up. Thanks for pointing them out. Quote: Before we can even think of board mounting everything, we have to get everyone to agree on a single set of...

Hi. I'm one of the masses here to give my opinion. I'm also in favor of an all-out non-portable amp, but mainly I want to say that I would love to use board-mounted parts and a custom case, for the following reasons: a) the amp can...