Room Details

Dimensions: 45’ × 25’  X large
Ceiling: 8’


Components Toggle details

    • VPI Scoutmaster
    The "Old" version with the JMW Memorial unipivot arm.
    3 gm head shell weight added for low compliance cartridge.
    • Koetsu Rosewood Sig Platinum
    Transparent Super Phono to Sutherland Dos Locos
    • Sutherland Dos Locos
    Medium Gain
    Cardas Clear Reflection to LA4
    • Eversolo T8
    Cardas Clear USB connection to DAC
    4TB SSD installed.
    • SRS (Stanford Research System) FS 725
    Master Clock.
    DX Engineering DXE-8XDB003 50 ohm RF cable to DAC clock input.
    • Esoteric K-01XD SE
    Balanced to LA4, Cardas Clear Reflection
    • Preamp Benchmark LA4
    Cardas Clear Reflection, Balanced to home brew, RCA to XA25 or Elekit when those in the system
    • Elekit TU-8900
    Lundahl OPT
    Jupiter Paper-Beeswax coupling caps
    WE 300B or NOS RCA Black Plate 2A3
    Brimar CV4003 or Amperex ECC82
    • Home Brewed Power Amp
    Fully balanced from XLR inputs
    Wiring Kimber
    Resistors, Vishay
    Coupling Caps, Jensen Silver, other caps Vishay
    OPT Lundahl 1623
    6SN7GTB NOS RCA Black Plate, TungSol or E-H, 300B Western Electric

    Power Supplies, MeanWell switching
    • Speakers Rockport Atria II
    Tara Labs , RSC Reference 2000 Gen 2, 5 meter.
    • Power Amp XA 25
    Rarely in system
    • Monster Cable HTS-3600
    Surge protector, power line filter.  Entry level stuff but seems to do the job.
    • Cardas Clear Reflection
    Balanced from DAC to Pre
    RCA from pre to XA25 or Elekit

Comments 8

Owner
@scar972  Possibly better late than never.  Just saw your year old post!  That amp is PP, I'm not sure about possible power output, I'd guess 20.

It runs out of steam on large orchestral works.

retiredaudioguy

Owner
For 6SN7s I now have LinLai Sapphires.

retiredaudioguy

Owner
They are Western Electrics.

retiredaudioguy

Dig your DYI AMP!! What 300B's does it use please?

wsrrsw

@retiredaudioguy great looking amp and better that you built it yourself! I've been considering SET for a second system. How much power does it push out, approx 15 watts?

scar972

Hey retired audio guy another cool tube amp nice build! I will say this a local shop builds custom gear and almost exclusively with vintage output transformers. Those always sounded the best to me maybe an idea for your next project? And so cool you can build digital stuff too almost no one DIYs digital!

jond

Owner
Thanks for your note.  I'll get around to some more images this weekend.  My room is totally untreated, it is my living room.

That amp, and the Elekit, were the first bits of Audio gear I had built in about 65 years!  I had built radios and an amp  in the late 50s or early 60s.

I had done a few digital (non-audio) wire wrapped projects including a clock using LSI (74HC) chips after I found that my audio system clock (Stanford Research) emitted an incredibly precise 1 pulse per second, my daughter did a WOW so I built one for her using a 32kHz TCXO chip - similar to those used in DACs, but much lower in frequency. 

retiredaudioguy

I always admire you builders of amps and speakers. The utilitarian look of the amp gives it a certain dignity, an understated form-follows-function appeal. 

I'd love to see the room and the other parts. Seeing how people set up their rooms often inspires me to try new things. 

Anyway, nice job....

David

dtorc

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