Check todays posts in the F5 Turbo thread, there may be something in the pipeline.
Guys that offer kits make money, that's called commercial enterprising.
There are several bills of material for the FW designs floating around here, a couple of minutes copy and paste on the Mouser/DK pages.
Several sources for sets of matched JFETs, or matched MOSFETs, are active on diyA.
Complete case/heatsink packages can be ordered online with an email and a payment, takes a few minutes of your time.
Leaves you with waiting for the parts to arrive, then the real work follows.
If that's way too much trouble, then it's how you describe yourself, you're a lazy *** bum.
In fact you could have done so in about the same time as you have spent bemoaning the lack of a total kit!🙄
I understand your point. The "can't be bothered to learn and that you prefer everything handed to you on a silver platter" statement is conjured up in your imagination. I am very much willing to learn, and have, and will continue to be regardless. Your idea of a "silver platter" is my idea of learning. Does it matter how one atttempts to achieve their goals? Is there a hierarchy in DIY learning that I am not aware of? Why is there an impression that one does not repect a designers talents...because they are not doing things in the "right" way? Is there a measurement of respect intrinsic to DIY? Please upload the respect curve so I can further enlighten myself on these parameters.
cheers
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aptquark:
Nelson "Papa" Pass has not only allowed others to see the schematics of, and build his designs, but has made special designs just for people like us DIYers, such as the Burning Amp series. He also helps people who want to build or modify his designs. He is a huge contributor here, and it would be more than fair to say that diyAudio wouldn't be what it is today without all his help.
From what he has written (and this is my understanding) his wish is that companies don't copy his designs or make kits as he has said that cheap knockoffs affect the value of his products, especially if the Pass name is attached to them (which it invariably is), and retailers squawk about this and then don't want to carry the products.
Sometimes he gives permission to certain people to sell certain things, such as circuit boards, but to my knowledge has never allowed a complete kit. If he doesn't restrict anybody from making knock-offs of his products, then everyone can make knock-offs,
So it's not about "paying your dues" that we don't allow kits, its the request of a very very valuable member of this organization making a very reasonable request, considering what he has contributed here.
And there's a simple solution that's already been pointed out- If you don't have time, buy a First Watt amplifier. Easy. If you don't have time or money, well, life is tough I guess. Since a Pass amps isn't your first choice anyway, why not order one of the various kits on the market for other amp designs such as Aspen Amplifiers? A Google search will turn them up..
Please don't make any more insulting posts or you'll be spending time in the bin
Variac
Chief Editor
Nelson "Papa" Pass has not only allowed others to see the schematics of, and build his designs, but has made special designs just for people like us DIYers, such as the Burning Amp series. He also helps people who want to build or modify his designs. He is a huge contributor here, and it would be more than fair to say that diyAudio wouldn't be what it is today without all his help.
From what he has written (and this is my understanding) his wish is that companies don't copy his designs or make kits as he has said that cheap knockoffs affect the value of his products, especially if the Pass name is attached to them (which it invariably is), and retailers squawk about this and then don't want to carry the products.
Sometimes he gives permission to certain people to sell certain things, such as circuit boards, but to my knowledge has never allowed a complete kit. If he doesn't restrict anybody from making knock-offs of his products, then everyone can make knock-offs,
So it's not about "paying your dues" that we don't allow kits, its the request of a very very valuable member of this organization making a very reasonable request, considering what he has contributed here.
And there's a simple solution that's already been pointed out- If you don't have time, buy a First Watt amplifier. Easy. If you don't have time or money, well, life is tough I guess. Since a Pass amps isn't your first choice anyway, why not order one of the various kits on the market for other amp designs such as Aspen Amplifiers? A Google search will turn them up..
Please don't make any more insulting posts or you'll be spending time in the bin
Variac
Chief Editor
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Tony, I just saw your blogs...Im heading there to read some of those. They look very intersting.
Thanks again
Thanks again
I've reported the issue someone may have an idea as to what is going on. Bear with it for while, and hopefully should be sorted.
Tony.
Tony.
Ditto,
i've been hearing that guy out for years, and still don't understand a word he's saying.
Not that i care to learn, no time, and if i wanted a high-end joker i'd go to a real store.
i've been hearing that guy out for years, and still don't understand a word he's saying.
Not that i care to learn, no time, and if i wanted a high-end joker i'd go to a real store.
thanks to everyone for explaining the obvious to me. Now I just need to hide the part where I said <cough>...NP's stuff would not be my first choice.
BULLSHLAGEN!
I would eat that stuff up in a heartbeat if I could.
BULLSHLAGEN!
I would eat that stuff up in a heartbeat if I could.
Oh not to worry - some of us have done much worse than you. That's one reason why I sit over at my reserved space at the dummies table. Jacco has the honorary seat at the head of the table for the rest of the year after attempting self amputation of finger digits.... ZM - well he is so full of [fill in the blank] that it would take a lifetime to explain him - but by then he would have morphed into something else all over again - so there is no use in trying to put that puzzle together - accept it for what it is and who he is.
If you should actually start building anything Papa has blessed us with ZM can be very helpful because he knows much and haz a very big heart. 😎
