Great meet. Thanks to Alex for hosting. Nice to see everyone again this year and meet some new people. Looking forward to next time

It's not mine; i heard it at a meet and it is certainly Summit fi. It is unfortunate that one has to play at high stakes level to get good sound from SS. :relaxed: The piety is bit of an outlier, while not perfect at least comprises something i want to listen to for only a few hundred. if you...

My favorite SS amp that is Not astronomical in price is the Nitsche Piety. After that, i am a huge advocate of using speakers amps as headphone amps... So All time best SS amp for me goes to the real Dartzeel NHB-108. i can count the SS amps on one hand that ive heard that can do the imaging...

It is a master clock based upon the CX371a (type 71 kinda like a lower power 45) Directly Heated Triode and powered by UX280 full wave rectifier tube (type 80). It's basically a sinewave generator circuit which is adjusted like a radio tuner to get the desired frequency. It can output in excess...

Ever wonder what happens when you feed a CDplayer the wrong clock frequency on purpose? I came across a DHT master clock mod (i have many types of these modules) where i could change the frequency in real time while the unit is playing as a digital transport. As you can see, the CD-880 requires...

What's another amp that sounds better ... increased level of the same 'Distortion' as Magpie at Any price

Thanks the Art cables RLS70 is a Siamese twin style specifically for HD800. The one I have is like 15' long and that works out because my 800 dedicated amp is a speaker amp. It's literally "pre war" status now lol. I have rls24 for hd6x0 (not twin style) also but certain vintage cable is...

Piety pairs very nicely with HD580 This is a worthy amp indeed

The drivers are different and have variations from each era, no different than 580s or 6x0.

there now it is sold. was a good deal. who knows how much you will have to spend to find a special hd600 like this one. I would've bought it myself if I didn't have a unicorn hd800

k4 was nice enough to send it to California for us to play with. these are legit best hd600 I've ever heard and i heard a lot of vintage sennheisers ;)

I got my Vcaps directly from Victor while building a 8900 for someone else. I think the Vcaps are better in this case, because the Sangaku is already warm and bloomy. Vcaps are tighter sounding and probably as clear as it gets for couplers without spending More Megabucks. If i was using a...

Another revision, i think this might be the final datapoint for me. The CuTF are burned in now. They lost that metallic tinge and starting to sound more 'normal' so i thought it needed a retune. I finally received my backordered parts to finish it. Ditched the last of the ceramic caps in the...

:wink: shipped it to the owner last week after the build. Got my taste of Elekit and to see how the automatic tube detection works Ultimately too complex of an amp for my taste. I like to mod and tinker with point to point amp. I cut my own plates to save $50 and put it into jupiters instead...

Here is my Sangaku Amp that i've had for a month, i have deviated from the original BOM a bit due to personal preferences and parts availability Still unfinished due to parts being OOS but it functions. I just dont want to make another order for a $5 part so it's going to wait.

added a new worker..waiting for prices to crash as there appears to be order cuts from retailers Ryzen 2600/b350 (475 hs) i shouldve gotten a used 1700. it would've been cheaper, same wattage, and better hash vega64's prices are coming back to sane levels again

It's in the back house and that room is a suana with the windows open and room fans going. The psu makes lots of heat and it burns PSU like no tomorrow. Been through a couple seasonic titanium 1500w already. Corsair hx1500 is much better unit. On another note, I use a mitx ryzen7 build for VR...

4 1070ti (Mobo defective cant get the other 2 working...), 6 1080ti, 2 vega64, 1700x

To clarify, you're using the built in DAC of the sl990? Your chain is sl990 > luxman p1u > hd800?

Nice Mrantz TECHNICS SL-P990 DACs 4 x PCM56P-J Mechanism SOAD 70a with linear motors? Or is it a 60a? possibly replacements available...always a good thing when it comes to vintage

There's nothing floating on glue, all joints that are supposed to be glued are flush. I used Titebond2 and 3 from homedepot and would recommend Titebond2 if i had to do it again (faster cure). With these flatpacks, everything is position a piece at a time, glue, align the other side, and clamp...

A little more on the 300B build and BK20 Initial check and biasing I think this is possibly understated

Dropping by to give Tom the well deserved praise for designing such a wonderful amp. It fired up on first try and sounds great, worked out perfectly to power my high efficiency system. I configured the amp to run 6DJ8/PCC88 driver tubes, 300b output tubes, mundorf and jantzen superior coupling...

Whatever you do, don't get the fake shiz I.e. teac t1, wadia 850, copland 288. There's a list of fake models somewhere. Where's muh custom non cogging brushless motor, rigid bridge, maglev laser sled, and alloy turn table platter

Nothing fancy 1992 Arcam CDT 1980's TDA1541 DAC EC 2a3