Hi damir,
I finished the Salas DCG3 over the weekend, and I thought it would be better than the GainWire MK3 but not at all! The Gainwire MK3 is the best I've ever heard so far.
My question to you is how is GainWire (non GNFB) better than GainWire MK3?
I finished the Salas DCG3 over the weekend, and I thought it would be better than the GainWire MK3 but not at all! The Gainwire MK3 is the best I've ever heard so far.
My question to you is how is GainWire (non GNFB) better than GainWire MK3?
GW NGNFB has better harmonic profile (mostly secon and third ) and better SNR (volume control after gain block) but higher THD compared to mk3 with GNFB. Listening to both preamps I can't decide which one to prefer (to old to judge in a listenig test) but techicaly I prefer NGNFB.
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I guess if you pay for something it should have been built and tested. 😢 Audio electronics should be no different from industrial electronics. You only make a final model when everything is 100% correct. I assume audio is not life threatening like say the ABS on your car or flight control on a 747, but never-the-less one should pay attention to everything you do. The connectivity check should have picked this up on the first run.. The 747 crashed because a track on the PCB was left off. Even if you had dual redundancy, the other system will have the same fault. 😱 Oops, no big error just some people I don't know or care for are dead- Sorry, I will fix it next time.
Not a dig at you DADOD, the problem is mainly that we are too much in a hurry to get a design out there and small things get ignored and adds up to total catastrophe. Was the two F-16s in Ukraine and error by the pilot or did some systems not respond to the danger to take evasive action?
It does not matter how qualified an engineer or physician or what ever profession you chose, a mistake remains a mistake, there are no small mistakes.
Not a dig at you DADOD, the problem is mainly that we are too much in a hurry to get a design out there and small things get ignored and adds up to total catastrophe. Was the two F-16s in Ukraine and error by the pilot or did some systems not respond to the danger to take evasive action?
It does not matter how qualified an engineer or physician or what ever profession you chose, a mistake remains a mistake, there are no small mistakes.
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Nothing wrong with 1.05. I did new rev. 1.06 on request adding input Molex connectors.I have rev 1.05 and there seems to be no wrong with them,is these another rev?
Sorry, I only saw the paying part. I have no problem with selling your completed PCBs since you will probably test and verify before shipping it. Sorry if I misunderstood the last part of your thread.
Niko, no problem. I offered tested and checked PCBs before, but now I am not any more in trough hole semiconductor as is hard to find not fake ones, so I loaded my last gerbers, but some how the 1.06 version had that small error as I never produced that version.
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I am not sure what you mean, but if you whant to build balanced preamp out of GW mk3 CFA you have to have two boards, one for balanced left channel and one for balanced right channel. It means that instead of left and right channels on one board it is balanced from the input to the output for one channel only.
Here are some photos. https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...ry-low-distortion.296545/page-15#post-5228625
After a quite long delay I received replace biino control board, my balanced GW mk3 version is finished.
I was listening via Benchmark DAC2 connected to the GW mk3 balanced inputs.
Some photos here.
Damir
I was listening via Benchmark DAC2 connected to the GW mk3 balanced inputs.
Some photos here.
Damir
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