ToolShed Amps thread, Transcendence / Iron-Coupled / Tanoshi

exciting!

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Damned teaser! Show us the goods! :rofl: :wink:

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Sorry, these were just some “big reveal” sheets i ordered to hype things up. :joy:

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Between the cellophane wrapping and the sheets I’m starting to wonder if you are actually Dexter Morgan! :rofl:

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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

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My wife saw me looking and said, “I hope you’re not thinking of buying that, it looks super expensive”. lol

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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 :rofl:

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:rofl:

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! :wink: Definitely draws attention.

Can’t wait to see it all hooked up. :+1:

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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.
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That picture… :pinched_fingers:

How many steps?

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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.

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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.

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Tbh, the steps fit well. Im sure ill have days of betweens but no complaints on volume mismatching so far.

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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 :laughing:

I think the green and you’ve got this year’s Christmas card for friends and relatives.

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i want some well lit, “normal” pictures! :rofl:

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Matt, has your TS amp woken up yet? How is it sounding in your system?

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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.

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