F5 power amplifier

My PRP resistors arrived from the States Thursday evening.

After a few hours of soldering, setting bias, running the normal square wave and frequency response tests, etc., I have been listening to one channel for a few hours now.

Quite listenable. A touch on the bright side, but surprisingly tight bass. Source for the quick test was headphone output from Micromega Stage 1, via battery powered DRV134 for balance conversion. Loudspeaker was B&W CDM1 with (DIY) Mundorf Crossover.

Circuit is similar to the balanced version posted by Tino.
Rails are +/- 16V, total bias 4A.
JFETs are matched 2SK170BL/2SJ74BL running at 5mA.
Output MOSFETS are 2SK1530/2SJ201.
Source resistor 0R22 & 0R18 respectively.

Here are a few photos.

Patrick, I am very very happy with the result:):)
The amplifier is .... SUPER!!!
Thanks very much for your help!:)

Vitali
 

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I want to share some more impressions for the f5.

As I said I use large skins, so after many hours the temperature stays to about 40oC, so after reading I started playing with the bias...

0.60v >>> 40oC >>> 65oC (mosfet)
0.71v >>> 43oC >>> 80oC (mosfet after 30min)

The weird is that the two of this positions gives a different sound!
The big difference was in the bass area and the mids (I beleive highs were the same)

So my results,

in 0.60v I had a huge, great bass (the midbass was thin), the mids were little behind and the highs were very good

in 0.71v the bass gone away but the midbass became huge, the mids left the veil and became huge (I liked them, but where is the bass), the highs also had a little better volume.

now 0.65v and here are all, perfect balance for all.

Anyone with the same experience?
 
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My english is not good enough, in addition I can not express my thoughts correctly... I agree with "are shifted by the emergence of midrange and top end" everything is around balance and I tried to describe it, my speakers are ob (bass rolloff )
Yes I get excited with small changes!
 
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