Ceasar II - HighEnd Tube Mono Block Project

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Hi to all Tubes friends,

i want to introduce you today my finished HighEnd Mono-Block project.

It based on the circuit of the netherlands Tube Guru Triode Dick, the "Ceasar II".

To the components:

The Output-, Chocke- and Powertransformers are from AE-Europe and were build, developed and optimized in cooperation with Triode Dick.
To push the top quality of the OT´s, i have ordered them with silver wire on the secondary side.
The design of the 4mm natural anodized aluminum panels comes from my "mind" and were build from Schaeffer in Berlin.

Because i don´t have the faintest idea of woodwork, my good friend John Eekels helped me and build some wonderful cabinets fo my project. As always he made a perfect job!
Thanks again at this point.

Now to the tubes:

For the 300B Tube there were only one tube in my mind, the Emission Labs EML 300B-XLS. This tube made a perfect job for months in my Woo Audio WA5-LE headphone amp and is one of the best 300B´s on the planet.
You could get it from JAC Music. If you have questions about it, Jac van de Walle from JAC Music is a great specialist about Tube questions.

The D3a Tube, exclusiv build for the former German Post, you could get quite well at ebay ect.

As 6N30P i use an original russian REFLECTOR "DR" version. It is build exclusive for the russian army.

For the rectifier tube Triode Dick provided normally a GZ37 or a GZ34.
At this point i selected one of the most recommended rectifiers for my Mono´s, the NOS Mullard High Wycombe CV378 (GZ37 "Fat Glass / Coke Bottle").


The remaining parts are selected within my HighEnd thoughts.

Capacitors: Mundorf Tube Caps (Power Supply), Mundorf Silver/Gold/Oil (Input Stage)

Resistors: Audio Note Tantalum 2W (Signal path), Kiwame for the rest

Tubebases: Yamamoto Teflon/Gold (JAC Music)

Pole Terminals: WBT 0710-Cu nextgen

RCA Sockets: WBT 0210-Ag nextgen

Interconnect Cable: Homegrown Audio IC-4 Solid Silver 4 Strand Interconnect Braid (RCA Socket/Input Stage)

Hookup Wire: 0,6mm single strand (PTFE silver plated copper wire)


But now enough words.

May i introduce.....


The "Ceasar II"

[Bas Horneman]

Brilliantly executed! Any pictures of the "working" parts?

[dvb-projekt]

Originally Posted by Bas Horneman

Any pictures of the "working" parts?

will follow!

[Bas Horneman]

Awesome. Not even a spat of solder resin to be seen.

[dvb-projekt]

Now the pictures have a much smaller size and everyone could take a look also
with lower speed i-net lines

Thanks Jason.

[kavermei]

Veeerrry nice work! I like the shape of that EML tube. Like a soldier standing guard

Kenneth

[azazello]

Congratulation!
By the way, I don't like res.Kiwame. I used this kind, after I changed to TR16...
Cheh Republic. Sound is "2 level" better!
Good sounding!!

[dvb-projekt]

Originally Posted by azazello

Congratulation!
By the way, I don't like res.Kiwame. I used this kind, after I changed to TR16...
Cheh Republic. Sound is "2 level" better!
Good sounding!!

Tr16.. ? Could you post a little more?

After extreme good experiences with the Tx2575 from Texas Components
in my DAC Project, this would be also a choice.

[Herr Grau]

Looks very good. May I ask what that iron costed?

[nicoch58]

HI GReat work !!

I have the 300Bxls too but why with your speakers somethings like 45 mesh or 46/10y...