[justin w.]

back to the BHSE build i am inspecting silver front panels early on this Christmas day. here is a near perfect one! this is the kind of hand craftsmanship that is hard to find
 

 

 

[nattonrice]

Beautiful!

 

[wink]

Do I detect some flaws on the right-hand bottom mounting hole?
Seems there are 2 spots. On at about 10 o-clock just on the edge and a spot inside on the bottom of the hole.
Also on the top right hole no the edge at 4 and 6 o-clock.
 
Otherwise I like it.

 

[Shep]

Nah.  Those are just impact craters from falling Xmas tree needles, pre wrap.  
 
I hear a train a comin'....

 

[justin w.]

  Do I detect some flaws on the right-hand bottom mounting hole?
Seems there are 2 spots. On at about 10 o-clock just on the edge and a spot inside on the bottom of the hole.
Also on the top right hole no the edge at 4 and 6 o-clock.
 
Otherwise I like it.

 
there is a tiny flaw there from when the anodizer racked the part. i did say near perfect. if not good enough, i would retire immediately

 

[Rico613]

  back to the BHSE build i am inspecting silver front panels early on this Christmas day. here is a near perfect one! this is the kind of hand craftsmanship that is hard to find
 

 

Don't listen to Wink, I think he was joking anyway

.  This looks good to me  Now I wish I'd ordered silver . . . lol  

 

[shipsupt]

Insert "silver sounds better" post here. 

 

[Rico613]

I'm putting together another audio rack and I'm wondering how much headroom to allow for the BHSE and EL34s?  The 300b tubes on my ECBA get to 140* F at the very top of the tubes and this is no problem, even with very little (1/2") clearance.  I know the EL34s will get hotter, I'm just wondering if a couple inches of clearance will be enough.  Has anyone taken the surface temperature on the EL34s?  Thanks . . .

 

[Radio_head]

I had mine on a finite elmente rack with adjustable shelves.  At first I gave it 4" of clearance out of paranoia, but I adjusted it to about 1 1/2" when my power amp came in and it was completely fine.

 

[Rico613]

perfect, thanks . . .

 

[justin w.]

update coming soon once the panels have been laser engraved

 

[livewire]

Are we gonna have to wait until next year?

 

[livewire]

What is 666 backwards?
(clue: see above post)
 
Ha! I'm now a HF millenial. Took long enuf.

 

[wink]

You mean backwards and upside-down?
 
Congrats anyway. Hows your DIY BH going?

 

[darinf]

Does anyone in Southern California have a BHSE that would be interested in bringing it to a mini-meet this Friday, 1/3, in Irvine? I know it's a long shot because of the short notice, but we are looking to do an electrostatic amp "shoot out" and thought it would be more complete if we had a BHSE there too. Let me know if you know anyone who might be willing to participate with their BHSE.
 
We have a new prototype Russian electrostatic amp/DAC that we will be comparing.
 
Please PM me if interested.
 
Thanks,
-Darin