[Chefguru]

KGSSHV Mini by Mjolnir Audio

 

[Chefguru]

Controversial Woo Audio 3ES
Images suggest the 300b are only preamps and it uses a apex pa97 opamp

 

[Chefguru]

Controversial VIVA STX
Dangerous wiring/soldering among other engineering flaws

 

[ThanatosVI]

Controversial VIVA STX
Dangerous wiring/soldering among other engineering flaws

Can you give some details on the engineering flaws?

 

[Chefguru]

Can you give some details on the engineering flaws?

General issues pointed out by others (not myself)

• Shoddy bridge rectifier
• Power supply suppression cap that is notorious for tendency to fail and not designed for particular application
• Pin 3 of the XLR sockets are not hooked up to anything (indicating it's not actually functioning as balanced)
• Ground tabs not used on RCA - soldered directly to the thread
  • solder is almost touching the center pin

Other issues:

• Hot glue everywhere
• Abundance of cheap/unreliable parts used
• Damaged cap missing part of the shrink wrap

 

[ScornDefeat]

That Viva STX looks.....oof.

This is why we advocate, and should continue to advocate, to see the internals of electronics prior to laying out significant sums of money for them.

Thank you for posting these.

 

[RestoredSparda]

That Viva STX looks.....oof.

This is why we advocate, and should continue to advocate, to see the internals of electronics prior to laying out significant sums of money for them.

Thank you for posting these.

Seeing that rat nest makes me cringe when it eventually blows up and needs troubleshooting.

 

[alota]

i´m italian but this build of viva is authentic garbage

 

[number1sixerfan]

That Viva STX looks.....oof.

This is why we advocate, and should continue to advocate, to see the internals of electronics prior to laying out significant sums of money for them.

Thank you for posting these.

Agree. And I simply can't believe that is honestly the internals. Even worse, I strongly considered the STX.

 

[Petergrifindor]

STAX SRM-T8000

 

[normie610]

Controversial VIVA STX
Dangerous wiring/soldering among other engineering flaws

My goodness! This looks a lot like the Felitsa crap Dr Gilmore was fixing a few months ago. And this retails for what, $15-16k??

 

[alota]

Wrong...sorry

 

[alota]

STAX SRM-T8000

How match with 009?

 

[Chefguru]

Agree. And I simply can't believe that is honestly the internals. Even worse, I strongly considered the STX.

Looks to be the same back (image we're seeing is flipped)

 

[number1sixerfan]

Looks to be the same back (image we're seeing is flipped)

Oh I believe the fidelity of the pics 100%. I'm more flabbergasted that the internals are actually that bad.