[Gotez]

Good taste indeed.

 

[Beefy]

Yowza. Great work fitting all of that in the case!

 

[qusp]

thats a beautiful Bottlehead amp HiGHFLYiN9, nice choice in components, such a pity nobody makes an attractive locking phono, imo it looks pretty average and is not up to the quality of the rest of your build, but there arent many/any other options

 

[bcg27]

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thats a beautiful Bottlehead amp HiGHFLYiN9, nice choice in components, such a pity nobody makes an attractive locking phono, imo it looks pretty average and is not up to the quality of the rest of your build, but there arent many/any other options

The best I found was a combo 1/4 inch/XLR connector from neutrik - from mouser it's part number 568-NCJ9FI-V. The body is black and it has a silver locking tab. IMO definitely looks better than that red tab. You can see it here, it matches the lcd connector very nicely!
 

 

[HiGHFLYiN9]

Thanks gents, I appreciate the compliments. There was definitely a little bit of shoehorning in order. I'd imagine a little bit of vinyl dye and reverse mounting the Neutrik may make it a little more tasteful, I may have to try that on the next build
 
That combo connector does look nice. I invested in a die cut for the Neutrik locking connector, so I'll likely continue to use it for the time being. Those little buggers aren't cheap

 

[MrClean]

After trolling this site for few months I decided to get headphones ATH - M50 (for now) and build an amplifier. I know that 32 ohm phones are not the best with Bijou but the combo sounds quite good to me.
 
The Bijou

 
testing output caps
 

 
under hood
 

 

[balderon]

^ You've added some extra glass. What tweaks have you made?

 

[MrClean]

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^ You've added some extra glass. What tweaks have you made?

 
Two of those tubes are not connected, I wanted "upside down V" look but that would make boards very close together so I decided to get some sockets and use up couple of old tubes just for the show.

 

 

[Gotez]

Lol

 

[TheShaman]

Nothing fancy... A Buffalo 32S in a Galaxy case.
 

 

 

 
And the essential blurry night shot: 
 

 

[MrMajestic2]

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Nothing fancy... A Buffalo 32S in a Galaxy case.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And the essential blurry night shot: 
 
 

Thats a nice clean build. What size is that Galaxy case?
 

 

[TheShaman]

Thanks! 
It's a 330 x 280 mm case. Height is 1U (40mm).

 

[tomb]

Here's cobaltmute's new SkeletonDAC that I built awhile back, but I didn't post the pics in this thread.  It drives the KSC-75's fine and sounds very good - at least as good as an Alien/Bantam. The TI replacement DAC chips (PCM2704/5) for the PCM2702 have a built-in amplifier. It's not very powerful, but good enough to drive small phones and earbuds.
 
 



 

 

[mralexosborn]

My speakers should be done tomorrow. One of them got exposed to the sun while stain was drying though so the finish is not kosher, as they say. The whole aesthetic is meh since the boards were not cut straight (not by my hand). Let's hope they sound good. Pics tomorrow night. 
 

 

[jasonRF]

Here is a super simple, single supply, single stage, portable discrete amp I recently built.
 


Voltage gain is 2, and is from input differential stage.  Draws about 10 mA with 9V battery supply.  Has two outputs, as I built it for my kids to use with our laptop to watch movies (laptop phone output is severely current limited).  This amp also sounds good with my Grado SR-60 phones I've had for almost a decade now.   This was only my 2nd diy electronics project; I want my next one to look much neater inside than this!
 
jason