WALL-E
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Just waiting for a output caps to arrive with some hook-up wires and bypass caps to complete all the parts I need to mods this amp.
All complete and ready to go!
Indeed, Wow! Very clean job, I love it. I can't even tell what you modified, but I have a feeling it's everything. It does look glorious, anyways. Any audible difference?
Oh and have you got a picture of before, just for fun?
Thanks, but my starving student is child's play compared to what you did to your Dark Voice, and it probably doesn't sound even remotely as good.
I'm really speechless. You managed to upgrade it while at the same time making it look better. And you seem to have picked the upgrade parts with care, giving more credit to their specifications than to their brands. I'll take your experience as a lesson. I went for brands with my SSMH and the result is not very good. I think the capacitors I used in my power supply have too high ESR. I have 10 420µf of capacitance on the power rails, but I still have a lot of background noise. Makes me sick just to think about it. The problem is that most "boutique" brands don't have those specs in their datasheet. How did you go about selecting the right parts?
Another thing I'm curious about, is the enclosure of the Dark Voice a ferrous material? i.e. will a magnet stick to it? I'm asking because my experience with different enclosure material is pushing me to conclude that the only real way to shield an audio circuit is to use a ferrous enclosure, like steel. And something tells me the Dark Force has a steel enclosure.
Thanks, but my starving student is child's play compared to what you did to your Dark Voice, and it probably doesn't sound even remotely as good.
I'm really speechless. You managed to upgrade it while at the same time making it look better. And you seem to have picked the upgrade parts with care, giving more credit to their specifications than to their brands. I'll take your experience as a lesson. I went for brands with my SSMH and the result is not very good. I think the capacitors I used in my power supply have too high ESR. I have 10 420µf of capacitance on the power rails, but I still have a lot of background noise. Makes me sick just to think about it. The problem is that most "boutique" brands don't have those specs in their datasheet. How did you go about selecting the right parts?
Another thing I'm curious about, is the enclosure of the Dark Voice a ferrous material? i.e. will a magnet stick to it? I'm asking because my experience with different enclosure material is pushing me to conclude that the only real way to shield an audio circuit is to use a ferrous enclosure, like steel. And something tells me the Dark Force has a steel enclosure.
WOW... impressive!!!
What OTs are these? are they 600:32 ? Off the shelf or custom winds? They look like low wattage speaker OTs, 4/8/16 ohms
Was customized to overseas users 93/4
I am completely blown away by the look of this amp!! It's High-end Output Transformer less, two-piece design.
I followed the creation of this amp quite some time ago on the forum diybuy.net, but I thought that is a only special order, isn't it? You said it “Was customized to overseas users” so this is the standard version of the amp with “premium parts upgrade package” Is that correct? which allows me to wonder, if the "customized platform 9 3/4" was a special order to one of your overseas customer, what about the platform 9 3/4"unmodded" standard version, are you going to produce and sell them like your other La Figaro amplifiers?
I would not be able to stretch my budget to include another amp BUT IF how much is it ?
thanks