I’ve had that setup (minus the BT receiver) since 2009, when I built the amp and DAC. The next year I left my home city. I’ve moved a few times since then and this setup has always come along. So that always feels homely to me. Depends how quiet you like the room to be. There is the distant...

It sure is

Bumping this thread to say thanks to Dr. Cavalli, cfcubed, and everyone else involved in creating this great little buffered tube amp. It's travelled with me to three different cities and is a fond reminder of my head-fi diy days. Here it sits on my night-table in Switerland, far from my...

I moved from Canada to Switzerland in October and just brought my headphone 'rig' here last week :)

It makes if you think of the financial incentives. DIY amp sales take away sales from commercial companies, those companies are then less interested to spend money to advertise on head-fi, the head-fi owners then make less profit. Of course this is a very simple way to look at things. You...

I've been away from Head-fi for a few years now. Actually I stopped visiting the site not too long after the re-vamp, where the look of the site was changed slightly and a major focus was put on controlling the aftermarket sales of gear - in particular DIY equipment. This was not too long after...

It seems that 3 channel will have some benefits in terms of cancellation of amplifier noise

I am the jerk who's had cobaltmute's r1 for over a year and still have not tested it. I didn't realize how busy my life would be and entering a program at a new school where I don't do anything with electronics has made it difficult to get a hold of equipment. ..okay these are poor excuses.  ...

That new Viablue plug looks awesome.  Sweet looking cable too!

Quote: @civilmonkey Another thing to consider is whether a DACT makes sense in this application.  Considering the CTH uses a single dual triode tube you will inherently have some degree of mismatch in gain between the two channels.  Using a volume control that's intended to track two...

So I guess it's a design choice between having an 18mm cap option and having the option of mounting the heat sink inside the board. To me the latter is more useful and is necessary if you want to claim that the regulator only occupies the space of the board.

Quote: Although it technically fits it's probably not a reasonable build option since there is a good chance of direct thermal contact to the capacitors on either side.   This could be rectified in the production version by moving R3 down, turning it 90 degrees clockwise and moving C3...

awesome!

  Quote: ^indeed it is and my money is fully on this being a joke for these reasons:   1. if you're going to introduce an iem with 20 drivers - which makes no sense from a technical a standpoint - that costs $8000 you'd be damn sure not do it april 1 2. jude claims to hear...