Indeed it is. This is diyAudio, you should have made one! 😀
I'll check it out, although I suppose the market would be quite limited, so expensive.
Your check is in the post above.
Yes, these line output volume control transformers are very labour intensive, therefore not cheap.
I'm happy I don't have to bother with all these volume controls and switched inputs. All my music content is on my Mac so the volume control is digital. What a relief....... as much of a relief as saying goodbye to vinyl. I can happily do without either.
Well - if you throw money at capacitors you do get some pay-back. Not sure if it's in proportion to the cost, given that FT-2s are peanuts, just like 4P1Ls.
At least the Soviets did a few useful things (bit like the Romans....)
At least the Soviets did a few useful things (bit like the Romans....)
Money can be "thrown away" in so many ways. To take myself as an example I've bought far to many tubes that will never be used. If I had bought less tubes I could have spent the money on better parts instead. It's a question of priorities.
Anyway, before getting too defensive, I would like to say that it is something spesial about the sound of silver. I really do not think that one of the pioneers of using silver in audio, Hiroyasu Kondo, was only in it for the money. That would do him a great injustice.
Anyway, before getting too defensive, I would like to say that it is something spesial about the sound of silver. I really do not think that one of the pioneers of using silver in audio, Hiroyasu Kondo, was only in it for the money. That would do him a great injustice.
Well, the Vikings were good at amassing silver in their travels, so maybe not much has changed except that the Norwegians are now the happiest nation on earth and they're now all properly "samfunns bevisst".
No, the most happiest nation is the rasta....as long as the joint is smoking. 🙂
Joke: When the herb run out, the rasta get sober and cry out: what is this sh.t music!? 😛pp
If only wealth and happiness correlated. But alas not. Or maybe it does?
I'm still impressed by your language skills. Are you often in Norway?
I'm still impressed by your language skills. Are you often in Norway?
Jeg kan godt snakker norsk men jeg er helt forferdelig til a skrive det – jeg skrive bare tull. Jeg har arbeidet som musiker i Oslo og rundt omkring i 6 ar fra 1978. Jeg fik ogsa flere turneer med Rikskonsertene i hele Norge. Jeg husker godt Club 7 - jeg har ofte spillte dar. Kjempefin club men dette er historie.
Nice! I bet you knew some Norwegian jazz legends from this period? Garbarek, Andersen, Eberson and such?
I didn't really know those guys - they were a bit of a race apart. I talked to them a bit now and then. I played with more of the B list jazz musicians - Odd Riisnaes, Knut Vaernes, Jon Balke, Espen Rud, Ditlef Eckoff, Haakon Graf, Ole Jacob Hansen, Sigurd Kohn, Audun Kleive, Tom Olstad, Terje Venaas, Jens Wendelboe. They were the Club 7 regulars.
Two of my favourites! Don't know Eberson, so I'll have check him out now. But there's Terje Rypdal too.
😀 A pair of them would just about double what I have spent on the pre-amp section!
Has somebody done any systematical research into changing parts on the Rod Coleman regulator boards for better sound? I have the v7 version and I'll guess that changing the R1 and/or R2 resistors can have some impact, but what about the two 0.22uF capacitors? Any first hand experiences would be greatly appreciated.
It's possible that the R1 construction will make a difference. At Ampère-levels of current, we may meet with some current-noise - and this is construction-dependent. Non-inductive like the Mills, or nonmagnetic, like the Ohmite AG, may be worth trying - though their influence will vary according to the amp's layout (stray E- and B- field dependent).
C4 is buffered from the audio by the whole Regulator, and I cannot believe that it would be able to influence anything.
C3 is in the control path, but the signal voltage across it is well below 1mV, so I would be surprised if there were any differences with fancy dielectrics. If you want to roll this one, you can try 150nF to 330nF as outer limits of acceptable capacitance. The lead-pitch is 5mm, for the PCB position.
For my main system with EML300Bs, I use the Regulators with exactly the same parts that are included in the kit. But could be willing to try out parts that develop a strong following.
C4 is buffered from the audio by the whole Regulator, and I cannot believe that it would be able to influence anything.
C3 is in the control path, but the signal voltage across it is well below 1mV, so I would be surprised if there were any differences with fancy dielectrics. If you want to roll this one, you can try 150nF to 330nF as outer limits of acceptable capacitance. The lead-pitch is 5mm, for the PCB position.
For my main system with EML300Bs, I use the Regulators with exactly the same parts that are included in the kit. But could be willing to try out parts that develop a strong following.