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Yep, only one ground cable. The chrome finish makes the entire chassis thing conductive so the second RCA jack grounds to the "chassis".

Standard RCA jack size.

ahh i see

Whoaaa dude! You should make those commercially! It looks too awesome for words to describe it

Yes, very cool indeed. Nice job

Well it's finally finished...five years after I first started. It is an original Millett Hybrid, from back in 2002. There was a short on the board that I couldn't locate so I threw it in a box and put it in a closet for five years. I finally dug it out and it was Nikongod who saved the day. He is the one who found the short and actually built the board, I just cased the thing up (Your the man Nikongod!). I've never really built much of anything before so building the case and troubleshooting the darn thing was a real learning experience. Now....where do I sign up for another crack at it....

EDIT: Sorry about the crappy pics...I'm no photographer.



Just got to find a better knob




That hole is a finger hole to pull the top up, along with providing a little ventilation.




Those two black circles on the corner posts are magnets, they have partners in the top and together they keep everything nice and snug.


Thanks to everyone on Headfi who helped me build this thing; couldn't of done it without you.


Colin

I agree, very cool. By far my favorite DIY dock I've seen on here.

Awesome stuff Dano!

Sync; I too got my tube amp build not long ago. Awesome to see it living!

Nice idea. What are you using for the actual switches?

jk

Great to see you persevered with it and got it finished. How does it sound?

Sounds great to me. No hum or noise anywhere and I love what it does to my music but my entire "hifi" audio experience could probably be compressed to about 20 hours of listening; experienced my ears are not.

X2.. billiant idea..

My latest effort

This came out very neat TPA6111A2 in a Hammond box

The hammond case is neat and very sturdy




Not bad for a home made board





I tucked the input and gain resistors under the DIP8 board and use 1/8 watt metal film to make them fit
I like it it feels good

Thanks for looking
FRED

My Cavalli Audio Compact hybrid tube amplifier collection..Boards can be acquired from Sprucecanyonlabs






Messed up the back plate on the little silver one in the middle. Easily fixed with a round file. I believe mine is the only one with a full size headphone jack on the smaller case.

I assume that you've seen my build thread? If not, take a look here. If you are uncertain of your soldering skills, I'd recommend buying a cheap electronics kits from Maplins to hone your skills. But yes. With basic soldering skills, attention to detail and a little care and patience and I would have thought most people would be able to complete the kit.

Whether it is the best kit for a beginner, I don't know. I built Tangent's variant of the CMoy as my first "kit". I found this quite difficult as the tracks/pads on the protoboard are pretty close. I also used a part silver solder which was too tricky for me as an absolute beginner. For the Novo I went for a tin/lead (63/37) mix....much easy to work with than the silver stuff!

The build thread for my Tangent CMoy can be seen here.

Hope this helps.