exciting!
Damned teaser! Show us the goods!
Between the cellophane wrapping and the sheets I’m starting to wonder if you are actually Dexter Morgan!
I went to fold and put those sheets away and this happened to be underneath.
I barely got it set up. Work is pulling me a lot so maybe i get a listen this weekend
My wife saw me looking and said, “I hope you’re not thinking of buying that, it looks super expensive”. lol
You know a piece has an incredible look to it when one of our females can distinguish it from the usual sea of black and silver boxes
It definitely looks expensive, pretty cool steampunk vibe to it. Really nice cabinetry, finger joints look great.
If it was a motorcycle it’d be a pimped out chrome plated Harley Davidson! Definitely draws attention.
Can’t wait to see it all hooked up.
Had the first session tonight. I started late and ended early. Work has been a killer with 11 meetings just today and needing the a/c to combat the heat and having that fuck with my ears too doesnt leave a lot of time for audio.
There are things that are really great, other things that im perplexed by. Mostly things that tend to get better after burning in for a while. The system has been sitting for almost 2 months so everything probably needs a bit of time.
Here are some specs:
- 1750mW (1.75 W on a bad day)
- Choke input, tube rectified, outboard, linear power supply
- 9-conductor, shielded umbilical cable
- Tokyo Ko-On-Denpa (TKD) P65CS stepped attenuator
- Jupiter Condenser Ag Silver foil “Vitamin Q” coupling capacitors
- Tantalum Non-Magnetic resistors
- Proprietary, discrete, regulated DC power supplies for the driver stage as well as output stage and pilot light.
- Heavy-metal anti-vibration/resonance-rejecting tube socket mounting plates w/Teflon sockets and Soviet Ag ceramic loktals.
- Noguchi fineMet, nanocrystalline-core output transformers.
- 79% Nickel, High-Impedance, Ono-crystal Cu Input transformers.
- Vintage (1950’s) Western Electric Solid-Core, tinned-copper, cloth jacketed signal wire
- 16ga. Silicone jacketed ground wire
- 10KV Silicone jacketed 18ga. HV wiring
- Grid-Biased, “peeled” C3g driver stage.
- Polished 3.5mm 6061 Aluminum plates set into a mirrored pair of oiled Bubinga/Flame Birch 2-Tone bases.
- Completely hand-built, engineered, in-house.
That picture…
How many steps?
42 or 48. Its the extremely highly regarded unit from TKD that was also used in LAMM amps.
I used like the first 4 steps with the Utopia.
@hifiDJ what about this pic? I experimented a lot with color last night. Fun fact, the pixel cant capture purple, it just comes out as a blue. Tbh the camera kind of sucks.
This is why I put an output attenuation switch on my Hybrid amp.
It really is insanely sensitive and the MySphere 3.1 is worse.
Tbh, the steps fit well. Im sure ill have days of betweens but no complaints on volume mismatching so far.
Good too, but maybe I dig the contrast of the green a bit better. I like the positioning of the red though, makes the amp look bigger with that angle.
Same with the yammy on the Allnic amp
I think the green and you’ve got this year’s Christmas card for friends and relatives.
i want some well lit, “normal” pictures!
Matt, has your TS amp woken up yet? How is it sounding in your system?
The amp arrived right when the busy season hits for work. It is something i feared and i tried to get the builder to hurry up to avoid. But too many things popped up and time is very short now.
I had a very short listen but it was very mixed. I have been trying to get 50+ hours on it again before commiting more time. Some days i dont even have time to run it in the background while working.