UGLY Looking Amp! - but good working

[adason]

I believe my Amnesis QUAD with ALLBJT input project amplifier belongs here.

Cheers,
M.

I like it. The ugliness of the left channel is matching the ugliness of the right one. Perfect!

 

[adason]

The most "ugly" amp i got. Build with parts at hand, just as a sub amp untill i get to build a nicer one.

definitely not ugly enough!

 

[AudioSan]

 

[maxlorenz]

That's ugly.

I like it. The ugliness of the left channel is matching the ugliness of the right one. Perfect!

Thanks Shoog and Adason. I feel flattered.
The symmetry was totally unintended, BTW.

Cheers everybody and hang on there; we are close.
M.

 

[maxlorenz]

definitely not ugly enough!

Agreed. The ugliness is not there...very disappointing in that important department.
I wonder if some people just are born with this gift while others have to struggle to mimic it.

M.

 

[AudioSan]

I just can't get me to build someting that looks home made. I know i can do a lot better. So i do just that. And it would be placed in a rack in the livingroom. And i do have a better half that also have to live with it

 

[Bonsai]

Do my amplifiers (main amplifier and preamplifier) qualify? Both were good enough for a publication in Electronics World, but I didn't dare to send them any photos.

It's a pity I didn't take any photos of my high-voltage amplifier. It was simply a wooden drawer with large perfboards in it.

You published the circuit for that?

 

[MarcelvdG]

The main amplifier was published in Electronics World February 1996, the phono amplifier section of the pre-amplifier in Electronics World October 2003 and the high-voltage amplifier only online on Frank Verwaal's webpage about electrostatic loudspeakers.

 

[woody]

In the A40 article by Nelson Pass he shares a picture of his prototype.

 

[MarcelvdG]

I like that "Hardly portable" in the caption!

 

[wintermute]

I believe my Amnesis QUAD with ALLBJT input project amplifier belongs here.

Cheers,
M.

Oh yes it most certainly does!

Tony.

 

[maxlorenz]

Oh yes it most certainly does!

Tony.

I couldn't be happier!

Cheers,
M.

PS: I still Love your Avatar's picture.

 

[widea]

Please please tell me it is ugly enough...

 

[egellings]

It's a cutie pie! Not ugly at all.

 

[bucks bunny]

I believe my Amnesis QUAD with ALLBJT input project amplifier belongs here.

Cheers,
M.

the electric jungle

 

[Shoog]

Originally Posted by maxlorenz View Post
I believe my Amnesis QUAD with ALLBJT input project amplifier belongs here.

Cheers,
M.

the only real problem with a build like that is that one day you will have to go in to sort out a problem and then you just wont have a clue what you did in the first place. Been there and done that and now I aspire to a bit more order in my builds.

Shoog

 

[Disco-Pete]

econo-Leach, one of two.

Someone here may recognize this.

 

[maxlorenz]

the only real problem with a build like that is that one day you will have to go in to sort out a problem and then you just wont have a clue what you did in the first place. Been there and done that and now I aspire to a bit more order in my builds.

Shoog

Thanks for your concern, but this was/is a prototype/experimental version, with the copper side UP. Strangely, when developing those kind of circuits, one tend to remember all the intricacies and the evolution of the adventure...maybe the stress...

Dear Discopete,
I am sorry to say that your amp is beautiful.

Cheers,
M

 

[Donk2k]

Mx50se, LJM P9 preamp in a box.
Sounds good, could have been a bit more tidy.

 

[Shoog]

Many of these offerings are falling well short on the uglyness scale.

Shoog