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Zion, a ready made Phono Stage by the Paradise team

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RIAA plug-board

Progress report :) Here is the schema and PCB for the RIAA components, please comment on those. The board size is 40x95mm (and I really would not like to change that :)). All capacitors have an area of 10x34mm and 2 arrays of holes, one line-array at 2.5mm intervals and one line-array of 2.54mm intervals. The line have each 2 x 6 holes (for each line-array). The capacitors and resistors can be surface mount.
 

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Not really :), but nowadays it is not to expensive to have them made by a specialized PCB producer, and the bonus is a very high quality finish. As soon as you need some volume, having them made will(can) be cheaper then making them yourself (that is true also for 2 layer boards).

Well, the good things is that it does help create group interests and group buys, which at least goes against this individualistic world we live in. ;)
 
Progress report (I know it is developing slow)

Sorry to be (again) a bit slow, but on one of my professional projects I have a major mile-stone coming up (could be life changing :)). Any way this lows everything down.

The picture attached shows the high-impedance-buffer followed by the line-driver stage. The line-driven can be configured for balanced or unbalanced signal delivery. It also supports a volume control.
 

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And here are the resistor and capacitor values for the parts around UPb and UNb, one set of values for 10dB gain and one set of values for 20dB gain.
 

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Progress (again) :)

This is the RIAA-components board. It accommodates multiple capacitors and resistors. The holes for the capacitors are in rows (row distance 5mm) and the holes have a center-to-center distance of 1.25mm. Besides through-hole components the board accommodates smd parts.

The board size is 60 x 40mm, the areas for the capacitors are 22 x 13mm and 22 x 17.5mm. That should be ample space for several capacitors.

Any comments, please let me know :)
 

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