Very nice build, does he do this type of thing often or just for friends?
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I’m not sure about often, this project was his first time doing one that can handle that much wattage. He even told me you could mount even bigger heatsinks to the resistors so the box could handle even more power, but 700w is already more than overkill for my current system lol.
As for only for friends, not at all. I just emailed him asking if it’d be possible to build one that could handle more than 200W and we went from there. Bryan is a super nice dude and will happily do something custom and walk you through options/prices like he did with me. And if you have a question he’s usually pretty responsive as well. Just a great guy to do business with.
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What else does he make, does he have a website or something to show his work?
He’s the owner of Zynsonix. He makes quite a few things, his website has headphone cables and recable mods, speaker amp to headphone boxes, adapters, interconnects, switch boxes, and passive pre amps. Idk if he does anything outside of those categories for people, but I guess you can always ask.
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Oh, yes fully aware of Zzysoinic, he is acy]tually semi-local to me. I think I missed that somewhere ands only read you mention him by name. Thanks for the clarification on this!
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He does really great work and your current box is a beast, i had experienced one of his pieces years ago and have been recommending him since my HiFiguides days 
Really awesome conversation box you had made 
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Good images here of the K50, I’m assuming this is their newer/st version.
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This is most likely the second generation just before the release of the third which is the current latest (based on dates, nothing that I see internal).
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I’m now going to have dreams of opening up my server and seeing some 6th generation iPad in there and nothing else…
… not going to look.
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I have very little idea of what i was looking at regarding the electronics BUT the copper tubing running to the internal heat fins to what i assume is some kind of processing unit / chip / thingamabob is sooo cool 
All cpus need cooling. Probably to avoid a fan they put heat pipes on there to pull the heat away. Many heat pipes have some liquid in in that will evaporate and travel to help move the heat away, then while it is in a cooler spot it will condense back to liquid and fall back to the heat and repeat.
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Richard Gray’s Power Company 1200 Custom
It weighs 55 lbs. I had my conditioner open the other day to put some isolation feet on it. I’ve got 6 ifi AC Purifier connected to it, one for each item I’ve got plugged in. Those little things work even in excess as I’ve deployed them.
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I’ve seen more vendors switching to those yellow (from what I understand ceramic based) PCB as they’re supposed to help with resonance.
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Is that a cam shaft connecting the front volume control?
yes of some sort
Nice pictures.
Hopefully you can get it sorted.
I’d not seen the way they handle balanced input in detail before, it really does look to be just for convenience, unless black blob in the image is an op-amp, it appears to be just a resistor network.
If it’s just that board gone it looks like anyone semi competent should be able to replace it for you if they’ll ship you a replacement.
This is handling the balanced input
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Just there to allow them some misalignment on the Pot, so the knob doesn’t have to move to accommodate it.
Which given how it’s mounted I wouldn’t expect them to need, but I’m guessing it’s there for a reason.
afaik they never use op-amps as that is against their design philosophy (more on that here)
The amp is supposed to be SE only so I’m hoping it really is something along that board or those connectors/cables
I’d seen similar pictures before, doesn’t tell you much because you don’t know how much of it is made specifically for them.
It’s basically, some nice transformers, some linear voltage regulators on the left, a mini PC like main board on the bottom right with a good looking passive cooling system. And what looks an Antipodes specific output board in the bottom left which has an Xilinx FPGA on it an XMOS chip for USB. So they have a lot of control over the digital output, and it’s all going to be in the FPGA “software”, so no way to guess what they do.