[sachu]

love them both smeggy

 

[Nebby]

The micromesh stuff sure makes it easy to sand! Before I started using it as the final sanding step, some days I felt like I lost my identity when I couldn't feel my fingerprints anymore from the sanding

 

[smeggy]

yeah, I'd never heard of micromesh before today. One of the guys at the woodshop suggested it and blam! instant awesome.

Now I have to dismantle the front panel to give that a treatment too.

 

[Nebby]

if you have the finish sealed really well you can go for the full piano gloss finish by continuing on to rubbing compound and a polisher

 

[mattcalf]

Awesome build Nattonrice, the β22, σ22 and ESS Sabre rig seems to be the 'reference' in DIY at the moment. And yours is absolutely amazing!

Congrats on the beautiful build.

EDIT: Natton, is that a 4pin XLR output?

 

[nattonrice]

Thanks guys

Yep it is a 4-pin.
I originally designed for dual 3-pin (I think i still have the 3d render from sketchup) but progressively moved towards the nice aesthetic of a single jack... that and xlr are heavy mofos. One is bad enough lol.

I currently use dt880pro which is a little low on the price wow scale. I was thinking of going a little more extravagant but now have a couple of other things I have my eyes on so we'll see ^^

 

[nikongod]

Sweet work on the B22/S22/DAC setup, that thing looks great!

Quote:

Originally Posted by nattonrice /img/forum/go_quote.gif I currently use dt880pro which is a little low on the price wow scale. I was thinking of going a little more extravagant but now have a couple of other things I have my eyes on so we'll see ^^

Have you tried the DT-880 from an amp with a 120-ohm output impedance? They are a different beast that way I tell ya.

It will take you all of a moment to build an adapter cable to try it. If you still dont like them thats cool (and you should get more headphones even if you do like them because thats what we do), but their sonic character changes a LOT depending on source impedance.

 

[nattonrice]

Hmmm that's interesting! I've never heard them like that.
I throw an adapter in the mix later on to see what happens ^^

 

[Steve Eddy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nattonrice /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yep it is a 4-pin. I originally designed for dual 3-pin (I think i still have the 3d render from sketchup) but progressively moved towards the nice aesthetic of a single jack... that and xlr are heavy mofos. One is bad enough lol.

Yaaaaayyyyyy!

Dual 3 pin (a/k/a goat testicles) should have never got off the ground in the first place and really needs to die a miserable death!

Great build by the way!

Oh, and if you don't already know, you can get female XLRs that don't have that push tab on them.

se

 

[wink]

Great setup Tom, all you need now is a Senn HD800.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by wink /img/forum/go_quote.gif Great setup Tom, all you need now is a Senn HD800.

..or a K1000.

With a quad-board β22 and a dual-board σ22 I would assume it can handle one without muss stress. He even have the corresponding 4-pin XLR..

 

[mike410]

Mini^3 that I finished earlier this weekend. It was easy for a first DIY and sounds great too!

Bad cellphone pics

Dont have any pics of the inside but I will take some when I put the new cap in (put it in backwards, oops)

 

[smeggy]

Congrats. The mini is a great little amp.

 

[rds]

^yep, I just built one of these yesterday and it's great with my shure se530. Finally these damn phones are hiss free!
Nice job on the front panel

 

[stew1234]

Very slick combo. Did you have context engineering do the engraving work on the DAC also?