BosoZ rebuild.

[steenoe]

I have been doing a major rebuilding of my preamp.
Since I wanted to listen to some vinyl albums again, I had to
have a RIAA preamp integrated in my system. I just had to make
the Pearl. I am a big Pass fan, so the choice was easy
I really didn't want two more chassis's to fit in, so I decided to
pull out the PSU of my BosoZ and build the Pearl into my exsisting
preamp, and make one chassis for the PSU's. I had a Rega Planar 3 (old model) from one of my friends. I have to make a dinner for it, for him and his gierlfriend. I cook Jamie Oliver style and they love it That has got to be cheap! Well, it is a big pleasure to listen to some of my old Beatles albums again. As you can see my preamp chassis has been through a few rebuildings! I hate to think of the day it is worn out All in all I am satisfied.
Except I have to work a bit on the grounding of the turntable.
I can here hum when I touch the pickuparm!
Thanks to Nelson, Wayne and Karen. Great stuff!
Here is a pic of my old trusty preamp.

Steen.

[steenoe]

This is a pic of the PSU.
The third PSU is for my Headphone amp.
In case you wonder what the small supply is for;
it is feeding the LED's. Cant help it, I like making supplies

Steen.

[steenoe]

The Rega spinning!

[steenoe]

The last one is the supply cabel. I used D-sub25.
Two pins for each pole.

Steen.

[gchrist]

Congratulations,

Very nice project. What wire are you using for the internal wiring? Is it cat5?

George

[steenoe]

Thanks for the kind words!
For supply wiring I used the same kabel as for the supply cabel.
Just stripped of the outer insulation and used the leads with the same colours
for inside wiring as for the supply cabel. You really have to keep track of the pin numbers on this one!
For signals I used OFC copper, silver plated wire.

Steen.

[Stabist]

This preamp of yours looks very neat and "clean" - I like it!

Can you post some more pictures - and I'm also interested in few more photos of your power amp. Which amp is that?

[steenoe]

Thanks Stabist.
I did put some effort into making the wiring come out cleanly!
Not being fond of birdsnest's In hifi equipment that is!
I have a pic of the back of the supply unit. You will see AC inlet, fuseholder, and two D-sub connectors. One for BosoZ/Pearl and one for the headphone amp.
In danger of being occused of blasphemi on this forum, it is in fact the Death of Zen Headphone amp

Steen.

[steenoe]

My poweramp is the Zapsolute mark 4.1.
2*50 watt's class A. Lars Clausens construction.
Sounds absolutely great. Sanken output transistors.
240.000 uF capacitans in the psu. It is on sale right now,
a real bargain! See this page:
http://www.lcaudio.dk/zap.htm
I couldn't resist taking off the lid on that one, so here is a pic.
Really neat if you ask me WBT connectors and so on!

Steen.

[ROVSING]

Hello Steenoe
It looks nice and structured, maybe you should consider, making a new peace of metal to put on the back, it seems to me that you have a lot of holes there....