[gabriel-dan]

Pics of the fantastic Bijou.The sound is sublime!!

 

[jdkJake]

Beautiful case work! I love that front panel.
 
Interesting tube extenders. Why did you choose that over building the boards "upside down" and flush mounting to the top panel?

 

[chobint]

Sexy amp, nice job.

 

[rds]

Twisted Pear Audio Buffalo DAC
 

 

[jdkJake]

Wow, that's pretty cool. Is that the 8inch hammond case? You really maximized the available space.
 
What do the knobs on the front control?

 

[gabriel-dan]

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Beautiful case work! I love that front panel.
 
Interesting tube extenders. Why did you choose that over building the boards "upside down" and flush mounting to the top panel?

The case was too narrow. I couldn't mount the boards on studs, because with the tube sockets installed, they wouldn't  fit iside the case.
I just used a piece of teflon sheet and a flat washer under each PCB. The caps on the Power supply were almost as high as the case. So I had to install the tubes on extenders away from the caps on the boards.
 

 

[jdkJake]

Makes sense. A lot of work, but, it seems to have paid off. It looks great!

I like the SS peaking out on the side in the background. Thinking it just lost it's place in your amp hierarchy.

 

[rds]

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Wow, that's pretty cool. Is that the 8inch hammond case? You really maximized the available space.
 
What do the knobs on the front control?

Thanks  Yep, that's the 8 inch hammond.
 
The knob on the left selects the source and the one on the right adjusts the volume.

 

[jdkJake]

What DON"T you have crammed in there?
 
Seriously, what is all enclosed in that case? What a nice tight implementation!

 

[Nebby]

IIRC, rds's Opus was even more packed. Must be very good at playing tetris

 

[FallenAngel]

Very nice builds guys, serious class all-round.

 

[balderon]

Nice job. I like the compact build.
 
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Pics of the fantastic Bijou.The sound is sublime!!

 

[gabriel-dan]

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Makes sense. A lot of work, but, it seems to have paid off. It looks great!

I like the SS peaking out on the side in the background. Thinking it just lost it's place in your amp hierarchy.
 

The SS is a great little amp. It sounds nice, but the Bijou is in a different league alltogether, so the SS will have to move near my computer
 

 

[Pageygeeza]

RDS:  Nice work!  Only one gripe though.  That power switch is cheap and tacky.  Don't mean the look of it, but the build quality is really poor, I had trouble with a couple like that, they didn't really last long.
 
Apart from that, really nice.  

 

[jpelg]

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Just for Al, so he'll get off my back.
 
I got about 45 minutes of listening time tonight and I like what I'm hearing.

 
Dang, Nate - that is just beautiful, inside and out. If it sounds half as good as it looks, it is a total winner!