Fegefeuer
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Send me one to compare.
Niimbus Ultimate Series US4/US4+/US5/US5 Pro Headphone Amps - by Lake People
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drummerdimitri
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Found a cool picture of a Niimbus mainboard being populated, thought I would share.
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Put me down as happy to offer a second opinion down here in Australia
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Did a lot reading past couple of months about relays and noticed 1 thing.
Every manufacturer that i noticed thus far that uses relay based wolume control solutions use optical encoder except Violectric.
Why is that?
Isnt pontiometer worse?
Every manufacturer that i noticed thus far that uses relay based wolume control solutions use optical encoder except Violectric.
Why is that?
Isnt pontiometer worse?
Fegefeuer
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Niimbus LDR existed as a prototype, it sounded worse unfortunately. Cold, soulless. Volume control is essential to a good amp design for technicalities AND sounding. If the sound doesn't meet the vision it's not worth it. There's Topping for this. Selling values on paper and a dead sound to go with it.
The reed relais is a bit more complex than just being a potentiometer. Remember how it usws A/D conversion to assign the corresponding value from the knobs position?
Also the "endgame" is not just LDR, there are more approaches, see ELMA47 and many others.
The reed relais is a bit more complex than just being a potentiometer. Remember how it usws A/D conversion to assign the corresponding value from the knobs position?
Also the "endgame" is not just LDR, there are more approaches, see ELMA47 and many others.
Why you open it?
drummerdimitri
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I always take new things apart to get a deeper understanding of how something works.
I'm an electronics tinkerer so I live by the following motto: "Don't turn it on, take it apart!"
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How does it sound straight out of the box? It will much improve with play time.
drummerdimitri
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Sounds very neutral to me. Bass is too polite and the highs are a bit edgy so hopefully will ease out with use.
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Mine sound dull but now it's excellent.
Niimbus is manual assembly?Found a cool picture of a Niimbus mainboard being populated, thought I would share.
I will soon be able to compare Niimbus to Woo WA23, im excited because to this day WA33 was best amp i ever heard.
drummerdimitri
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Yes! Hand soldered as well. Too bad they don't take the time to remove the flux afterwards as it looks bad and could potentially corrode the PCB traces over time.
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