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Ricardo this is for you.
Here you see a bespoke 6000,-€ phono stage that i played to professional with comments like "Magical".
The left channel is fine at low volume and the right channel is OK with some treble loss, still in the plus-minus 1dB range, "Spitzenklasse".
At higher volume the left channel goes into slew limit and the right channel goes bananas.

Thank you

Higher volume means higher output from the cartridge correct ?
 
Ricardo, take the Lyra Titan i for example. It puts out 0,5mV @ 5cm-sec. 20cm-sec can be cut so we need 12dB overhead, better 20dB so 5mV can happen. I do not talk about miss tracking and ticks and pops. The Paradise is tolerant to miss behavior because of the nature of the topology. I have explained that before. 5mV into the Paradise is 5V out.
Up to 5V at the output the Paradise should hold RIAA precision. Maybe other phono stages have accurate RIAA at 1V output but what happens when the output is higher !
Yes, MiiB, my measurement shows the slewing behavior at higher level. I found that a stage that hold the shape of the square at higher level is better. The Paradise input stage is hard to slew because it is very fast. The limit is of how much current the mirror can drop into the RIAA. This gets better when the idle current in the input stage is high.
My original design had 5.5mA in each transistor with 20 Ohm degeneration. Now it is a bit over 2mA and 33 Ohm degeneration. I think this is more optimal for cartridges that have a bit higher impedance and a bit less output like the DL103.For my Titan i would prefer the original higher current. That may give more distortion though but it would slew even less because we have two times more current to dump into the RIAA.
 
The reason I cut down the current is because of the dissipation on the cascodes....you can easily run more current. but you have to find the limit yourselves. by halving the current set resistor (R5=60 ohm) you double the current. but then you also have to reduce the 2X2 resistors (220 ohm) to 2x110 ohms.. Cascode dissipation will then be 150 mW... which to me is on the edge....for a small TO92 device.
 
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I have talked to Jahre and i got some interesting answers. I wanted to know what the smallest case is with 1% precision for RIAA use. It is case 53.
Here are the dimensions :
6,8nF 125V 12,7 x 12,5 x 3,4 10.2mm between wires Case 53.10
13,6nF 125V 12,7 x 12.5 x 5,3 10.2mm between wires Case 53.20
40,6nF 125V 22 x 12.2 x 10,4 20mm between wires Case 53.50

i get a price quote soon

best, joachim
 
Talk to Frans about the board. I think you and him should work on this together ]

Tanks Joackim.

It may take same time to get a proto board out but I have 4 days off from tomorow so we get there.
I have 100 m space on my ennclosure so I may go for that width for a one off Just to make shure.

There are loads of things to get finalised board size being just one.
Then Diodes orientation. and maybe TO 247 foot print
Space for heat sink if needed (thinking to use the same as on the Paradise)
and so on.

I will PM Frans with my email this will make possible to send out gerbers and DXF files

Tank you wery much for your kind words.
 
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I have talked to Jahre and i got some interesting answers. I wanted to know what the smallest case is with 1% precision for RIAA use. It is case 53.
Here are the dimensions :
6,8nF 125V 12,7 x 12,5 x 3,4 10.2mm between wires Case 53.10
13,6nF 125V 12,7 x 12.5 x 5,3 10.2mm between wires Case 53.20
40,6nF 125V 22 x 12.2 x 10,4 20mm between wires Case 53.50

i get a price quote soon

best, joachim

Looking forward for a quote :)
 
We can talk to WIMA. They are in Unna, 80km from my home. I would like FKP2 in 1% with copper or silver wires.

Wima is a good option. I did talk to them some years ago to get special GTO caps for industrial project. They were very helpful and it was not a problem to buy small quantity in OK price.

FKP2 is (so far) copper in RM5 'bauform'. I can get easily 2.5% with no problem but 1% would be much better!!