I have a Kicker SX 1250.1 Date stamp on the board says 2004 3 13

The low voltage rca input on the amp was being finicky, would have to apply pressure on the cables to get it to work properly at times. i decided to take the cover off of the amp to see if i could fix the issue and found some burned MOSFETs in the corner. As far as i know the amp still works, unless it burned as i was taking it apart or right before. They look very damaged. I dont know much about amp repair. Im thinking of replacing all 5 of the IRF3205 transistors in that area.

I dont know much about how amplifiers work.

I dont know which IRF3205 to use, or what else to check/replace.
What kind of thermal tape to use? maybe silicone-rubber?

Any help would be appreciated.

Equipment i have: soldering iron, solder, vacuum de-soldering tool. Car battery. Multimeter. handheld oscilloscope.

Hi,

Any AN EL84 Integrated + Phono C Core users on this forum?

Cheers,

Is this amp good out of the box without modifications. I would use original parts ofcourse.

Has anyone swapped the stock driver for something else? Is there a compatibility issue with the Big Names? I haven’t opened up the amp, so I don’t know how it’s mounted.

Anyone can post which pin is for the DC power input because I would like to use battery power the amp?

Anything can do in the analogue part that can improve the sound?

Anyone have extra Keratherm from previous project they want to let go? I am in Diamond Bar CA 91765 and looking for the insulators for pickup. I only need three pieces.
Pls. PM me and I will provide my contact info. Thank you!
Abe

Acoustic Energy AE100s series upgrade consideration, tweeters mid/bass Scan Speak Peerless Vifa whatever any ideas?

Just wondering if any of you guys have any ideas on this?

I have some AE120 speakers which I feel are very well made, braced, solid and even mass loaded as standard. In general they don't sound bad, pretty good actually especially if you drive them hard. Although at lower levels I have to say they sound a little lack lustre and dull perhaps. I'm looking to upgrade perhaps the tweeter and midrange mid bass to open the sound up a bit. The drivers that's in there apart from looking cool look pretty cheap units I must say. Just wondering if anyone knows any decent units that will drop right in without too much hassle? Looking for a bit more of an real, airy, live sound.

Its a shame really as the speakers look the business with the grills off but I feel the cost of the drivers here was definitely the biggest limiting factor when mass producing these speakers.

The speakers are rated at 150 watts and 8 ohms. The tweeter recess dimensions are 4 inches exact for its sunken look, and the mid bass is 5 1/4 inches exact at the widest edge again for that sunken fit.

I know some of the Scan Speak etc speakers can be extremely expensive units and I would like it to be a reasonably cheap upgrade if I could. But just interested to see what I could use. I have had the Scan Speak D2010 in many production models in the past it is one of my favourites that one, well at least in the speakers I had. I actually had to buy a replacement for one a few years ago which was £50 then I see looking now they are up to near £80, and it wasn't that long ago.

Can anyone give a rough estimate for the sensitivity of two like 15”, 16 ohm, 97 dB 1W/1m, mid-woofers wired in parallel? The configuration is TMM, 2.5-way. The high frequency roll-off for the .5 woofer will begin around the BS of 250Hz or less. Cabs are base reflex est. 18”W x 40”H. Not looking for the sensitivity of the overall TMM 2.5 speaker, just the two 16ohm woofers wired in parallel. Thanks.

Just a noob here having just built my first anything. I took up ham radio a few years ago after retirement but I was never an electronics whiz like a lot of the old timer ham operators. I thought building something from scratch for the first time would be fun and good education.

The simple Monitor Audio Bronze 2's in my office/cluttered ham shack have never sounded this good.

I think my Rogue Audio Sphinx is headed out to make room. Only two sources: a DAC and the turntable. Right now the DAC is direct into the ACA and I'm controlling volume with Roon.

You've got me hooked on the sound! Where to go from here...

Hi,

A friend of mine just upgraded his system and would like to send me his EAR 8L6 integrated amplifier. He thinks that EAR stuff probably has a dual voltage tap in its main transformer so a technician in the States may be able to wire it for 120V, is he correct?

Cheers,

Horacio

Greetings everybody,

i'm running the 500w (real 300w) IRS2092S from two individual 1200w 20a step up converters (ali express link) wich are connected to two individual 12v batterys.

Works great, i didn't noticed anny issues on the first try outdoor playing a reasonable time on full power too.
But back home i'm noticing a "plop" sound and power cutoff when i turn it up around half way. I gave the channel a bit more power from the omnitronic smard-24rca to be able to give it the max 1,5v output voltage, so it might be that the "ploping" wasn't an issue on my first trys because it was still not playing on full power even if turned up fully because the channel of the omnitronic device was just on half power or something. With my NX3000 Amp the box is still doing fine, so there is nothing broken there 😉

I assume the "plop" is caused because of a power breakdown of the step up converters. (I tested using bigger batterys and a lipo at one side, so i don't think the issue is caused by the batterys not giving enough to the step ups).
I thought some capacitors could buffer the power supply for big drains? I'm running the box 30-70hz with heavy dub music, so more sub bass than kick - could capacitors help in this case too?
Secondly i'm not sure if capacitors will work, because a friend told me they block DC. After some web-search i could only find thins like this (ali express link) but they are for AC to DC - so i assume they don't work with dc input?


On the other hand i found a forum post where somebody just used one small capacitor in between the step up and the amp (50w) and it worked great for him. So the DC isn't an issue? If not, i'm asking myself where i need to place them: Cause the Amp is +/-65v i assume i would need to place them on the + and the - way but not on the gnd path?

And fourth: How many would i need? I calculeted that 3amps on 65v (each side) for one second (possible bass puls) would need about 50.000 uF, and i read that small capacitors in paralell have less resistance (and are cheaper😉 than a few big ones - so i would install like 100 470uf capacitors on the + and negative side?! Or will 10 on each side improve my situation well enough (since that would already be a big improvement/addition compared to the few caps on amp and step up).

Hope somebody can give me some advices,
thanks for reeding,
HimG

Newly acquired Cyrus CD XT SE (transport) is failing to load/disc error.
Purchased what I assume is a generic laser/mechanism to replace the cheap 'original' Sanyo SF-HD850 that I assumed to be the culprit for the failure.
(Needless to say....removed diode protective solder 'blob')🙂

Disc is once again, drawn into the mechanism....but fails to spin/load.
Replacing original mechanism.....does same...no spin/load.

Possible of course, that the 'new' laser isn't working??
What about the flexible 'ribbon' connector to the laser....do they fail over time??

Given that the mechanism is accessed from the underside of the Cyrus...does anyone know how I can check the working of the laser please??

Greetings gentlemen😱

For the past month I have been working on a super regualtor project with Jung style topology, but also includes some trick from the golden reference regulator -> Buffered error amp output to the base of pass element.

The error amp is good old ne5534, voltage reference being the Jung Led reference, and for the pass elements Im using NJT4031/4030 pair...

So here is basically what happened while debugging the whole assembly. The positive supply was rather successful, no magic smoke. But something rather strange happend to the negative regulator, when testing with a 200mA step, the output rings pretty badly on the oscilloscope. The ringing stops after 5-6 periods.

In the contrary, the positive reg shows a very ideal response without ringing. Voltage just goes down, negative feedback kicks in, overshoot a little, then voltage returns to the set value. Nothing more.

To tackle this ugly ringing, a few methods was tried, including: Switching pass element to slower bjt, adding input decouple cap, adding output decouple cap(aluminum, of course), increasing local feedback around erroramp. But none of these solves the problem completely, amplitude gets lower and stills rings for a while.

Anyone familiar with this issue? Thanks in advance..

---------------------------------------- Update----
One interesting result: When using the faster driver BJT 2SA2039, the ringing was like 4 time larger in amplitude and lasts longer. When switched to MJE350 the ringing was almost stopped. Reminds me of Mr. Didden once mentioned about the error amp and pass element selection: They shall have different speed so that phase shift wont happen at the same frequency.

Hi everyone.

As far as I know, arcing is caused by a high current through the rectifier tube, which leads to a high anode-cathode voltage drop.

If this is so, will arcing happend if using a 250 Vrms secondary? Even if the full voltage is across the tube, would (in theory) 250 Vrms (352 V-pk) be enough to make a rectifier arc? Let's take a GZ34, compare to its PIV of 1700 V, those 352 V seem nothing to worry about.

Maybe there're other reasons for arcing appart from high anode-cathode potential, like insufficient emission.


Or maybe I'm confusing apples and oranges 🙂

I appreciate any observation on the matter. Thanks!

I am new to this forum and hoping to find some guidance on where to start on a project I have been planning to do. I have no technical knowledge around speakers and their design but have an engineering background and can work my way around some electronics. Was hoping here might be a good starting point.

I have a 70's intercom / radio built into the wall of my kitchen / dining area which I would like to modernize to play music at higher quality as now it has lots of static and generally low quality. Not looking for a super HiFi system, but I would like it to be good not like just some alexa/google home speaker quality. I would like to keep the aesthetic of the device and all exterior features of the unit, but gut out the internals as the inside looks like a circuits lab, project bread board. It would be a plus for the knobs to be functional to some capacity as well. The unit measures at about 17 x 9 inches, and play into an area about 15 x 15 ft wide. I have added some images for reference of the unit on the wall.

1：2SD555 2SB600 B600 D555 old used
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6c41s

Hi all,

The output tube is 6c41s, and I would like to drive it into class A2.

Not too keen on the DC coupled cathode follower, mainly because it requires a separate negative supply. Loftin White topology has been said to sound very good, so Im keen in that direction.

The 'normal' operating point of the 6c41s is 180v/60v/120mA. It is driven by 'improved' SRPP stage with 5965, it should provide gain of 40+, which should provide plenty of drive to the output stage..

Since this is my first attempt at this kind of design, hoping to get it checked first.

btw- I'm aware of the dangers of Loftin White, but I have been building amps for many years now so its a risk i'm keeping in mind. Thanks in advance.

Hi all
I was wondering if someone could advise me on where to look for a problem with my TEAC. Its a integrated amp built around 1971. Is very well built and was working fine when I bought it about 10 years ago. About five years ago the preamp stopped working. Amplifier works fine and I can plug in a source direct to the amp and everything works as it should.
Both channels arent working on the preamp, no sound nothing.
Checked the power to the control amp board and seems fine.
All the caps look good. Checked all the wiring and circuit boards with the multi meter continuity buzzer and cant find anything.
Checked the soldered joints all look good, redone a few just in case.
Checked all the switches.
Everything looks clean and unmolested.
Probably something simple I have missed, weird its both channels.
Here is the service manual if anyone cared to help. Thanks.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...e-Manual.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3_Be8aP0T0tBJ4Pn0_BZFQ

Hi all,

Have a Densen DM-30 in to be repaired and my repair tech is looking for the service manual/ schematic to help trace the fault.Anyone out there in DiyAudio land have such a thing?
🙂

He’s had a inspection and he reports that “both output relays aren’t engaging.“
To help, any idea Guys as to what area the fault may lie in?

Recent repair work was done by amps previous user, wonder if it’s in the same ballpark?
From his Technicians repair paperwork...(and I quote...)

“Diagnostic indicated high offset (DC) in output with several components burned, in the output circuit. Failure found in IC that supervises Protection; it was short circuited and burned adjacent components.
All parts removed and changed, offset set and bias done in both channels. Stress test and all showed fine.

So if both Output relays on Amp aren’t engaging....possible connection to what was at fault before?
Are output relays connected to protection circuit in the Densen?

Thanks very much.
Just bought the Amp and it arrived DOA on right channel - after a 4 week wait on delivery...so quite frustrating!

I have these MD100's that spent 20 yrs in a car. I am getting very little sound out of them. They do move and have correct impedance, just make no spl. And maybe even missing some clarity.

Could they have dried out ferrofluid, and if so, can these be opened up and cleaned and new fluid installed ?

Thanks.
Srinath.

So, I gather there are a number of orphaned Sony 2SJ28's out there, so let's use this thread as a scratch pad for ideas to put them to use. 🙂

I'm building a set of high efficiency line source speakers (98db/w) and looking for suggestions for a high quality amplifier design with balanced inputs. I want to build monoblocks that will be located near each speaker which necessitates long interconnects. The speakers are a nominal 8 ohm load.

I'm actually almost done with a pair of F5T monoblocks (two output pair, no diodes, cascoded, 28v rails), but I'm using Jensen transformers for balanced inputs. I started building these before I decided to build the more efficient speakers, so now I'm wondering whether there might be a better option.

I have active servo-controlled open baffle stereo subs which will handle up to 80hz or so, so the amp doesn't have to "plumb the depths". With this kind of efficiency (and a line source), I don't think I need more than single digit watts.

Suggestions for a low-power, balanced-input, super-high-quality SS amp design? I'm obviously going to finish the F5T (should be able to power up one channel this weekend), but always thinking about the next project or modification.

[SOLD]

A while back I was going to build the Neurochrome Novar Spud amp, but never got around to it.

I have a pair of Edcor CXSE25-5K, with 8 ohm outputs. These are NEW.

I'm asking $160 plus $30 shipping for the pair to the lower 48 states only, please.

Thanks!

My mom dropped off her SR508 for me to repair. Found shorted output transistors on the back left. Wonderful person in this thread Replacements for SA1941 and SC5198 helped me out with some replacement output transistors. Got those replaced. Also replaced open emitter resistor on those output transistors.

Then found fuses to amp board were blown. Replaced those.

Unit now shuts down after power up. Found the emitter resistor on one of the drivers was blown (open, should be 100R). Replaced that (temporary currently since these amps SUCK to get the main board out of.

Unit is still shutting down for some overload. Thermal camera shows the output transistors and emitter resistor for them getting hot. But they seem fine (no shorts I can find). Driver transistors seem fine as well.

I don't get where else to look. Unit powers up for maybe half a second (I can see a voltage across the P6085 plug, but it doesn't seem to respond much to turning the trim pot. hovers right around 4.6V. Which is obviously super high since it should be down around 2.5mV. So either something is shorted, (one of the output transistors even though they seem fine), or something is driving the outputs fully on.

Any thoughts? On the plus side, at least the board is well labeled.

Any interest/offers for parts or repair?

SKA Audio GB150 (2x150w) mosfet power amp kit built by Greg Ball. One channel working fine, other channel working but distorting. Useful for power supply and chassis at least.

View/Pick up Wellington New Zealand, or could possibly ship within NZ but not offshore.

Hi,

I'm looking for a UK Marantz PM66 KI toroidal transformer or a complete dead PM66 KI at the right price.

PM me

Thanks
Martin

Hi guys, I thought I would pick your big brains before I go off researching this all day, and not do any of my work again lol.

May someone please tell me how high I can go crossing over a 15" Faital Pro 15400 in a compact H frame minimally constructed to the dimensions of the woofer? The woofer being inset centered back about 6 inches into the H frame. I know my 15400's play nicely in the upper bass frequency's, but I don't know how it would affect off axis response there being inset and all.

These would be actively crossed/EQ'd 3 way and mated MTM OB with Heil AMT 1 and Faital pro 10" 10FE200's. Also I was thinking for the Tweeter my Tymphany DFM-2535R00-08 and Dayton H812 as I love that combo! I don't know what would be better.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Hello

Since the gain of this preamp (like any phono preamps) go down to 0 db over 100 khz, and most decompensated op amp are stable in gains equal to or greater than five. In the phono preamp like the one in the image, does using a OPA637 or any decompensated op amp can made the circuit oscillate at arround 100 khz ?

Thank

Bye

Gaetan

does anyone have recomendations for a 6.5 or 8 inch driver for subwoofer use in a 1 cu ft enclosure or smaller ported or sealed. needs to run up to around 100hz or so and reach down into the low 30s. also they will be used in a pair. room size is around 13x15.thanks for the help

Hello everybody

Last weekend I've finished my subwoofer.
Everything is pretty good - nice, clear and tide bass up to 40Hz.

Below that point I got huge boost, at least 10Db or maybe more around 30Hz.coming out from the ports - all the furniture into the room and windows start shaking

I've moved the box around the room. but nothing changed.
I've tried damping the ports with polyfill, but that has very minimal effect.


Driver Parameters
12'' carbon cone

DVC 8ohm in parallel 2x150W

Fs 18Hz
Vas 225l
Qts 0.19
Xmax 5.4mm
Sd 495cm^2


Enclosure
ported
Vd 62l
F3 29Hz
dual port effective diameter 100mm
length 37.5cm
1'' polyfill applied on the sides, top and bottom

Plate amplifier BK BSBP 275W/4ohm

IMO the enclosure size is OK, even is slightly bigger than manufacturer's recommendation of >50l , but the tuning frequency seems to be too high.

I intend to go to a ports extension, making them twice longer about 75- 80cm
I've played with WINlSD last night and I made a comparison between the two different setups.

Would you explain to me what the ''Port Gain'' diagram means, please? Why gain of -6Db makes such a big output?

Any suggestions?

Has anyone tried the directly heated double tetrode QQC04/15 (aka 5895) connected as a triode? There appears to be a low frequency (audio?) push pull option in the tube data. G2 is limited to 250V and is shared.

Wonering if a pair could make a worthy project some time down the line.

Valve museum

hello all, before i start making sawdust id like to run my design by everyone to see if this should work or tweek my calculations. 830875 peerless in a .83 cu ft enclosure, slot port is 6"w x .75"h x 5.1"long tuned to around 46. i would like to tune it lower but just dont think it will work. what is your opinion, am i on the right track, thanks.

Hello everyone I have a Rockford T-15004 board number PC-4703-B I need a schematic, does anyone have one?

Good day guys, does anyone has a schematic diagram for this amp in full or part? Or in such where the power supply is concerned?

hi
i want to power my portable speaker by 8 lithium ion batteries.these batteries are in series and i want charge them with 8 "tp4056" module.but i think i can't connect each module to each battery (in fact series them).
so how can i do that?

Hello,

I bought a ES9038Q2M dac from audiophonics for a complete dac + amp + speaker project. First i bought a ES9038Q2M with a screen and pot to adjust the volume and select the source, but as it was out of stock i had to go with this dac instead :

ESS ES9038Q2M DAC Module I2S Optical Coaxial 32bit 384khz DSD256 - Audiophonics

As often with chinese thing like that, audiophonics just resell it and the technical information are seriously lacking. Over the years i have several talk with the guy from audiophonics technical service, and i must i really don't like him. He obviously doesn't know anything about the stuff they sell and he doesn't want to look very hard...

So when i ask them what kind of pot i should use to adjust the volume and how the source is selected, they answer any pot will do and that the dac will automatically lock to the signal it detects.

Of course it is not the case. 😡

I tried with a standard Lin pot and it doesn't adjust the volume between 0 and 100%, more between 50-70% to 100%.

And for the source selection, only the mode button on the board can select the source.
Automatic selection looked coherent because i don't see people to open the case to press the mode button every time they want to change the source 😱
But apparently the chinese didn't think that way 🙁

From what i understand the dac is control by a N76E003AT20 ic from Nuvoton. There is the mode and vol + and - button, plus a connector for a pot (3v3 VOL GRD). There is also a space for a 5 pin connector on the top of the ic, but as there is no documentation i don't know what it is doing, maybe a way to connect an external source switch 😕

So as audiophonics doesn't want to answer me about this, i hoped someone here would be kind enough to advice me how to make this thing to work properly 🙂

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I bought an Avel Lindberg 1kva Toroid 15+ years ago. It warmed up when connected to the mains... got to over 38C with no load. They sent me a replacement... but this guy is still with me. They didnt want it back.

Question I have is... how warm can it get and be considered safe? 40c? 50c? 80c? Measured on the outside? I really don't want to throw it away...

Guys
it's ridicoulous that after 40 years of manufacturing PCB's I don't get the point what is going wrong with my manufacturing PCB..
I use Bunggard 35um PCB. Fotopositive.
Later days I use Tracing paper as Film as well as Laser Film. Both were working good. but lately problems occured I never thought of it..

I get bad results when etching the PCB with Ferro Chlorid 3.
Instead of edging the exposed sequences of the PCB it eats up the Laqeur of the portion which should be the tracks,,

I ordered about 20 Plates PCB with size of 10cm * 16cm. The half of it I had to throw away because at edging all of them were useless..
I use the same Printer, The same Glasses, the same Ultraviolet lamps, exactly the correct exposure timing. and and and and
I always use new devloper, same Edging solution measured by weight. mixed by weight to a 10th of a gramm exact.
And still got to many failures..
and it doesn't matter if I use Film or Tracing Paper.. Finally I think that I got old PCB material from that Store I buy these.
I always measure developer Temp very exaclty 20degrees Celsious.

14 Days ago I again got failing PCB,s so I changend the Edging ACID to Natriumpersulfat. I almost died because the Air vent Failed and to this day I'm feeling sick, lost my short time memory to a big degree, sometims walking around like drunk. and if I sit down or lay down everything is turning like o a carusel. And I do not drink or smoke nor smoinkg pot.. nor taking drugs.. just 5 minutes of this poisoned air of this NATRIUMPERSULFAT almost make me to a usless Person.

And I can't take off from work, because there is nobody to do my work.. But this aint a problem.. but the bad PCB's is a big problem I can not finish my testing with such boards.

Show you a good one and the ones with very strange structure..
What makes it more strange, it kill the BIG TRACKS not the small ones.. LOL
Check out the pics please..

May some of you have seen something like that before..
Let me know if you think you know the reason..

Thanks MANY Thanks..
Regards Chris Hess

SOLD: Raal 140-15D AM Ribbon Tweeters (Qty 3)

For Sale: Raal 140-15D Ribbon Tweeter with Amorphous Core. Quantity 3, two used probably less than 50 hours. One still new in box. These have been in storage for several years. I built some prototype speakers, then before I could build the final cabinets I put them away while I remodeled my house. I never did get back to this speaker project. Asking $750 for all three. $650 for a two. Shipping and paypal fees extra. US shipping only. Local pickup in SF Bay area possible.

Greetings all;

I've just finished the TU-8200R and the TU-8500. Both units fired up right away, and sound great! Yay!

I do have a minor issue with the TU-8200R's headphone jack, though.
When I plug in the headphones, one of the speaker channels doesn't mute. The other speaker channel does. The audio in the headphones is correct and OK.

Any guidance on how I might troubleshoot this is appreciated. I suspect a solder bridge, but I'd rather not tear down the amp if I can troubleshoot it first. Maybe checking for continuity at the headphone jack solder points?

Thanks!
Chuck

I was perusing the local electronics surplus store and saw that they had a handful of LM3886 in the bins, and thought it might be fun to wire up a pair and see how they do.


Here they are, on a heatsink used as an assembly jig.
Wires are;

Red/Green = (V+) and (V-)
Blue/Black = Speaker (+) and (-)
Orange = input twisted pair
Ground to PSU not wired.


Starting with this article as a reference -- Mick Feuerbacher Audio Projects --


I began to wire the chips up. It's a very nice layout, but I realized, a bit too late, that when it's all done, it really is expecting to have the input RCA very close and at the right of the assembly... Hence why this one has the grounds going out that way.



So I thought that a more vertical arrangement might yield a more compact layout, and it did. Luckily, I was able to use one of the capacitor's leads as the ground. Neat! These have the output Zobel. There is no input cap as wired, I will probably attach those to the potentiometer.

The caps are glued together with a bit of silicone, not hot glue. If small film bypasses are necessary, there is room to attach them to the electrolytics.

I have yet to build a powersupply, so these are untested.

The much awaited Round 2 of the earlier thread http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/full-range/270614-subjective-blind-comparison-3in-5in-full-range-drivers.html now begins!

The contestants are, in no particular order:

1. Vifa TG9FD10-8 (fiberglass cone)
2. Tang Band W4-1320SB (paper cone)
3. Peerless P830986 (aluminum cone)
4. Fostex FF105WK (paper cone)
5. ScanSpeak 10F/8424G00 (fiberglass cone)
6. Mark Audio Alpair A7.3 (silver cone) (aluminum cone)
7. AHE 3in (from Taiwan) (paper cone) http://m.ruten.com.tw/goods/show.php?g=21206258966085

8. A surprise entry whose identity will be revealed after votes are in

Thus we have choices that will be randomly labeled A thru H.

Here is the photo of the entries for Round 2 (not including surprise entry).

Clockwise from 1 o'clock: W4-1320SB, FF105WK, P830986, 10F/8424, AHE, A7.3, and TG9FD (center).



The recordings are of the same sound clips from Round 1, with the difference that a higher recording quality of 96kHz was used and the resulting clips are 320kbps mp3's with 48kHz sample rate. As usual, the same setup as the previous thread was used with respect to the speaker enclosure (trapezoid baffle Nautaloss spiral sealed TL) and XKi dual W5-876SE drivers for the bass. XO was provided by miniDSP with 225Hz LR4 and -3dB baffle step correction applied to all drivers. XY mic of Zoom H4 was set at 1m away. Source was high res files from Audacity played thru laptop for clips 1 and 2, clip 3 was from CD player. It should be noted that one of the drivers here (A7.3) received extra special treatment per the manufacturer's recommendation prior to being tested unlike all the other drivers which were tested as-is, straight out of the box, with no pre-conditioning. The A7.3 was subjected to a 200 hr break-in consisting of clip 1 music at low volumes for first 40 hrs, then progressively louder with clip 3 for 80 more hrs, then ending with moderate volume for 80 more hrs of bass line heavy track by Suzanne Vega ("Headshots").

Here is the first track for all entries (change the extension .asc to .mp3 to listen).

I will post the other 2 tracks later.

Enjoy!

I want to thank all the folks who were so generous in providing me drivers to test - this test and thread would not be possible without you. 🙂

Some of the drivers, I purchased myself this time though...

A reminder to not analyze tracks using software, and if you do, please keep it to yourself.


Answer key given in big reveal after votes were all in.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/full...3in-5in-drivers-round-2-a-17.html#post4328938

Dear Guys


I am trying to assemble my own amplifier using a amplifier board and a pre-amplifier board i bought. My amplifier board is based on 4 C3280 transistors (works on 24ac-0-24ac , and pre amp 12ac-0. Both boards are working fine. My Pre-amplifier is based on LM1036. I gave pre-amp out directly to amp input. But when i try to connect mp3 player to pre amp input, it burnt. I checked the in line voltage of the pre-amp. it goes over 5V. What could be the issue here, please hep. I already burned two mp3 players trying to connect as input sources so far . This is my first Electronic project of this kind. Please find the block diagram of my design . Please help me to identify the issue here. Thank you.

Does anyone know if you can still get the cards for these amps ?

If not is it hard to make one from scratch ?

I'm becoming interested in building the above amp, as designed by Claus Byrith, which specifies a LL1664/80mA output transformer. When I look up the spec of the transformer it appears to a configurable design coping with PP as well as SE but no mention of '80mA'. Is there only one '1664 or does it have to be ordered with a particular configuration? Any guidance would be most welcome, thanks.

PS: I've tried communicating with Lundahl in the past who refer me to their UK contact but they are mostly into pro audio.

Does anyone have a specific application for this one? This would be a power indicator.

Thanks, as always.

I'm looking for ATC Amp Pack from SCM50, SCM100 or SCM150 active speakers.

Like this one :

I'm planning to build an M2X, and I have all my Mouser carts ready to go, but Antek is OOS and Plitron's website seems broken. Does anyone have an extra transformer that would be suitable for my build?

Thanks!

Hi guys, I've recently bought a NAD3130 secondhand. I went through the process of recapping it, and the amp sounds quite good! Unfortunately, once in a while there's a hiss+loss of volume in the right channel: I've swapped cables and speakers to make sure the problem was on the amp.
I've also noticed the balance control is very noisy.
What could it be? Where should I start with the debugging?
I'm thinking maybe some of the solid state components are about to die?

here is a simple question ( i think )

On a given unit 8" W 200 S - 8 Ohm of Visaton manu specs say for example

15 l/closed - - 72 Hz/0,75
20 l/bass reflex BR 19.24 (length 14 cm) 45 Hz -
30 l/bass reflex BR 19.24 (length 11 cm) 39 Hz -
50 l/bass reflex BR 15.34(length 13 cm) 33 Hz -

In case one needs to work with these data but the enclosure must have 2 woofers what is the procedure after that ?

One may design a 50 L enclosure and proper bass reflex and stack one at the top of each other ?....

The other might be to have a common enclosure but then how many litters and what bass reflex and where this is going to be located ....

will it be one bass reflex or 2 ?
will it be one bass reflex next to each other
or will it be one bass reflex next to every unit ?

I have 2 new test lead holders for sale. Pomona # 4408. These are $16 @ Mouser.

Asking $8 each plus USPS shipping from 17403.

Please PM me if you are interested.

Saw the recent announcement for the APx500 Flex. This basically is the AP software, but without the $30k dongle. Instead, you bring your own sound card.

I was just thinking, if I could find a sound card with AP performance, I could get a top of the line AP system for 10% of the cost.

Any sound cards you know that could fit the bill, performance-wise?

Jan

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I was given home theater set up jvc pwc5 5 disc DVD with surround and powered sub ghe sub has amp for everything built in. The gead unit is junk but I believe the rest of the amp to be ok. Id like to convert it to just
Run everything of a Bluetooth sans DVD player

Looking for some guidance, don't need to hear about not dealing with Ali, have had plenty of good things through them but this time BOOM. See link ICEPOWER power amplifier accessories digital power amplifier module ICE125ASX2 professional grade hifi power amplifier|Amplifier| - AliExpress
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the amp is using the ICE125ASx2 module and to my surprise it actually contains that module whether genuine unknown. I have popped the lid and it looks well put together BUT after 24 hours it starts flashing at the power button and no sound. See video. Any suggestions, can it be reset? Is it a grounding issue. Suspicions, solutions welcome.

So I have a class D board that I have had lying around for ages. I want to make a small box with 2 x 5" full range drivers for low volume guitar playing. I have a Helix Stomp (amp sim and effects). I want to be able to adjust the bass and treble on the amp because I suspect the small drivers will be lacking in bass. This is for relatively low volume playing so I just want to be able to tweak the bass/treble on the amp instead of the source (I could add extra eq blocks but the unit is limited in how many blocks you can use).

I am going to use an external laptop style power supply.

Actual question:

The preamp voltage is 12v. The amp module can be 9-24v. If I get a 12v external power supply, can I wire the socket to the pre-amp and the amp module with no issues? Or is there a more intelligent way to do this?

Closing of locals and many national chops means grouped orders and delays. To tune up diy realisations I look for a polypro caps kit.

Any interesting through hole pack ?

Hi,

I am new to DIY audio. I just purchased a raspberry pi and plan on buying the Allo Digione Signature.

Are there DIY DAC plans / options that would work with this? I have a budget of ~$300-400. And I would not need an electronics case.

Thanks.

I`ve had this problem since I bouth the amp. Got no help from Graaf as they went out of business short time after. As long as I play my music at low volume its working but as soon as I turn up the volume a bit the relay kicks in. And I have tried several preamps and cd players and its the same. I`ve tried to get in contac with Giovanni Marian and other people from Graaf wihtout any luck. Is there any of you out there that know of any people from Graaf that is stil doing some repair or can help solve this problem.

Hi,
I'm a newbi from south korea.
After seeing this forum and it is seemed to here is lots of knowledge about goldmund, nuforce amp, I kindly ask you to let me help out.

I has been used sta200(same design with jobs225, but has half power output) for last three months.

However it sudden dead(power on but no sounds), precisely it does not produces any sound on both channels, and i hear no clicks from it when it turn on or turn off.
Only power engaged led is turning on.

What i recently changed was only preamp to new one from schiit saga.
The new one is holo audio azure.
Heck now i'm thinking azure was the issue that it might contributes to sta200 being broken, because it was feeding by the anomaly signal from azure, and that is when azure's volume muted or at minimum volume level changes, strangely causing pop sound from speakers, along with only azure's such a behavior.

If azure's pre-out can damaged sta200, what part should i check first? i bought it from audio advisor from USA, and i asked nuforce directly but there was no responses.

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Above link, is the left bottom side input buffer? How do you think about the absence of the sound of relay switch's clicking is?
Any advise would be welcome..

Hi!

I have an Acoustic Signature Wow Turntable (2013) with a broken power supply (AC-1 PSU), which I lost while moving houses.

The replacement and newer model psu, the AC10, is now more expensive than what the turntable is worth today.

The AC1 power supply connects through the turntable via an RJ45 cable.

Just got back from the Acoustic Signature help email and they suggested that:

You can use any 24VDC power supply bought local and then you need to adapt a RJ 45 cable based on the specs provided.

Power supply should be 24V DC/ 500mA minimum.

That is the only possibility of avoiding the AC10 which would be the only available powersupply.

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They also included this schematic.





So I'm planning to buy an LPS that can do 24v, .8a like this:





and a PoE Injector (which I can let an engineer modify the wiring to connect to the turntable)





Will this work or is there a simpler solution?


As you can see, I am pretty much ignorant when it comes to PSUs and that's the reason why I am asking hahahahahaha.

Here's a pic of the back of the turntable for reference.





Thanks in advance for the help

🙂

I have the MK Boom setup working. However its rated at 50x2 at I believe 21v. Amp is rated up to 24v.
Comes with battery module of 11.1v. You can add another but only for added play time not increased voltage. Any ideas on how I could fairly easily do it?

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Hello
I turn to the forum ( to some expert guys) about my SE tube project.
I start from the beginning so it would be easy to understand my case.
I wanted to build a GU50 SE triode tube amp, so I collected almost all the necessary parts, let say 90%
Power transformer 325V 2.5A, a pair 3.5K SE 10W 100mA continuous bias USA made transformer, driver and power tubes, sockets, choke, PS capacitors etc
Now I don't know do I complete the amplifier or to use those parts to build a 300B SE amplifier.
Do any one has experience with these two power tube, built or heard their sound?
I could use the same transformers, for the 300B , I have D3a tube to drive the 300B, only has one choke 200mA tested up to 2000V (may be I need two)..
What would be the best think build a 300B and sell the GU50 tubes or finish the GU50 and probably I never get close to the 300B performance??Any advise pro and contra welcome.
Also please keep in mind probably later I'll sell the amp because my wish to build a GM70 SE. I just do not want to start with 1000V now, last few years I built only SS amplifier.
Of course all depend the amplifier performance, if sound great I'll keep her.🙂
Also if the amp sound better probably easier to sell in case/.
I do wanted to post pictures from the parts I collected but I have to charge my camera's battery.
So pictures will follow soon.
Thanks for your help
Happy New Year!
Greetings Gabor

free pick up in Thousand Oaks, Cal. great condition, I did alter the mid horn, also made custom backs to increase cab volume by 2.7 cubic feet. have the original backs also.

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Hi everyone, I have 4 old stock parts, but new, 2x vifa/scanspeak m25wp09-8,2x vifa/scanspeak tc18sg09-8, at tc18sc I only found the tc8sc49 version and 2 new vifa/peerless xt25tg30-04
4 cabinets, 2 x 48 liters, 2x 22 liters, I simulated in x-over 3 pro, but I can't get linearity 🙁

hi,got my hifi interest back after about 20yrs,i kept some of my old gear but sadly sold my Klipch horns...and Pink Triangle,sme turntable..😱
anyway i built a SE 300b amp and stored it in the loft,after removing the valves.
recently got it down and dusted off the thick layers that built up,inside looks fine,but after 20yrs kinda forgot all the specs etc..i built it with help from a Guy called Gary,if i remember,who was from Border patrol,again,if i remember.
It has BP interstage transformers and huge output trans,probably bought from BP,if i remember, and lots of Blackgates,silver wire etc,i spent a fortune on the bits..Looks like it has 2 valve rectified ps's for the interstage tranformers and a modified ps for the main choke input 300b ht,all in seperate enclosures,it weighs a ton..any ideas how i can proceed to get it all running again?
I was pretty good with valves/building when i built it but kinda forgot when i lost interest..
searching for circuits and looks similar to a SJS 108 mk2 amp but mine looks like a 2 stage circuit and didnt write down valves i used,the writing on the valves i kept for it have since lost there numbers🙁 so not sure what they were..
Possibly a long shot to sus out what i built but any help appreciated,retired now so lots of spare time to build etc..

Looking for used Satori tw29rn or tw29r tweeters & mw16p woofers. Thanks

Hi folks 🙂,

I would like improve the sound of the my KEF R900 speakers by upgrading its crossover parts, and am thus looking for suggestions, advices, feed-back...


You will find attached my pictures of its crossover (world premiere !).

Thanks a lot .

Douede

Hi does anyone have the service manual it will be a great help. Thanks

I've started to post and maintain a list of noise measurements made on a variety of current production (and a few NOS) audio tubes, because I don't find the lists at the tube vendors very helpful. My list shows the actual input-referred noise of each type/brand and how many tubes of each type I've measured. So far the list is modest, with 7 different types or brands (a total of 38 tubes measured). The lowest noise tubes so far include the JJ 5751 and Shuguang 12AX7B. You can see whole list at
Downloads – Tavish Design

Can anyone suggest other (possibly) lower noise types or brands? I can't afford to buy tubes just to test them(!) - but I do want to identify the lowest noise types, so please let me know your experiences.

Scott

ZOBEL OR NO ZOBEL ?????

AND WHY ????

some have exactly after the output of the amlifier the well known 0.1 mfd cap plus 100 R resitor to ground and then followed by one resistor in parallel with a coil .....

some others have first the network coil resistor then the 0.1mfd cap and resistor to ground

once i ve seen coil and resistor network and then from the out of the RC a 0.1 mfd to ground ....

coments about the best technic and also the best arangement between all that is very welcome ......

been working with a mosfet and seemed to play better with 0.1mfd +100R resistor to ground followed by a coil but with no resistor in paralel with it tryied 1R,2R,10R,100R..... but after all sounded better withoutany resistor ...just a coil ...any comments ????

Hi all,

There's currently a guy on ebay selling a job lot of parts for old AudioDigit class T amplifiers. These amps hold a special place in my heart as they were my first entry into power amps years ago.

I'm interested in his stuff and it looks like there's enough there to build a few already. He's said that you can probably get 5 to 8 amps out of the kits with the addition of a few speaker terminals and transformers.

My challenge is that I'm not electrically minded at all. I can wire a plug but that's about it, and my other half is uncomfortable with me building something that'll be plugged in to the house. 🙂 I'm also not set up with things like soldering equipment, multimeters, and other things I imagine you need to do things properly.

My question is, does anybody offer, or know anyone that offers, amp kit building services? I'd love a few of these kits put together and I'd happily reimburse or share the kit.

Thanks in advance

To prevent clogging another forum topic, I'll post my question in a separate topic. The question regards speaker isolation/stuffing.

The situation:
1. I've converted my B&W CM8 S2 (bass reflex port speakers) to active closed box loudspeakers. The drivers are powered by an FA-123 plate amp (hypex). I've done this because I liked the project and my speakers are relatively close to the walls.
2. I've (subjectively!) nailed it with the delay and crossovers of the speakers with a stunning mid- and high performance (thanks to this forum). But the lower end is perhaps as good as it gets, perhaps open to improvement. DIRAC live (full license of my NAD C658) can make de bass response of the speakers more than satisfactory for me, but I'm trying to find out if I should change the inner lining of my speakers. They originally came with 2 cm thick polyesterwool lining over the whole speaker.
3. After sealing the speaker I put a lot of polyester wool (Visaton Damping Material) in the place where the bass reflex port used to be.
4. After reading the 'burrito isolation' post, I removed all the isolation material and installed a burrito of polyester wool. I thinkt he bass got a bit more clear, but I wasn't very sure about the result.
5. I am trying to find out by reading forum post what the most logical inner lining of my speakers would be (floorstanders, relatively small, enclosed). I'm open to trying different amounts of isolation et cetera, but a theoretical guideline would help. I'm satisfied with the sound at the moment, but I would like to use the approach that is most logical.
6. Unfortunately, my understanding of physics is not sufficient to understand all arguments in this discussion, so a direction would be great.
Finally, the mid/tweeter are in a separate wooden cabinet within the floorstanders.

The options would be:
1. Burrito alone.
2. Inner lining alone (1 layer).
3 1 + 2.
4. Complete stuffing of the lower cabinet and no or limited upper.
5. Infinite possibilities...

Any suggestion as to what lining would be most logical?
Where to isolate an how thick? I have pleny of material in stock and can order more if needed.
The outer dimensions of the speaker is 960 mm (h) x 165 mm (w) x 277 mm (d)
The woodwork is approximately 18 mm thick.

Thanks for your help.

Have bought a Sabaj D3 dac to use while my EE dac is in for repair.
I gather this D3 uses CM6631A and CS4392.
I would like to get asio running smoothly (works fine with wasapi)
Tried the Cmedia asio driver but doesn't work too well.(stutter and crackle)
Asio4all doesn't seem to output at all.
Anyone know another asio driver that works with this D3 dac

Hi.I want to build an OB.My room dimension 4x5m. Is it good for OB. I want good bass.Can i use 18 inch eminence woofers or celestion ? Which woofers do you recommend? My friend can build pllxo for me.Thanks

Amp came in 2 output fets blown and power supply blown, repaired power supply and replaced all output fets, and fet drivers, amp powers on and out of protection but have positive rail Voltage on output, replaced audio driver board for a know working one but still have rail Voltage on the outputs

Hey guys, I'm lookin for high grade opamps to replace a pair of JRC 4580D.
These will be used in a pc soundcard. As I have absolutely no knowledge about opamps yet, i hope you can help me out with a few suggestions.

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