L'Amp: A simple SIT Amp

300VA is for both secondary, with my build current 1.8A so 6A rating is within recommended rules "VA > 3x bias" so parallel will provide less stress on the transformer

however this will tested a little longer because I'm finishing active 3way setup where SIT won't be suitable (i hope 25W FW clone will be adequate for wideband driver). SIT will serve my traditional passive speaker build which unfortunately i gave away 4pcs 15" woofer and the baffle 2yrs ago :) now i have to build it again from zero

Original FW products use one Antek 300VA psu transformer with two secondaires for 25 watt's stereo amplifiers
so I think Your ~ 10 watt's Vfet can do as well . My :2c:
 
I'm preparing monoblock design on my existing FW clone which are already on separate psu box so only need to make another psu box

for my self bias SIT which utilize only one secondary output for each channel, it means if i make it monoblock, there will be 1 secondary output unused for each toroid.

any idea on what to build on single secondary output? look like a waste if i leave it un-utilised

Great Your are not in hurry to start build them today , patience Mr. Pass in the near future do design something Watt's New
: power stage(s) and super front end(s) for the single Sony Vfet amplifiers. Me look at on the FW radar every day :radar:
 
it's been a while i have not looked at amplifier anymore, focus on room treatment and speaker build. maybe 4 class a in my home should stop me because i can only use 1 at a time, even this situation forced to build 2nd speaker set :D

i consider super front end will be ZM iron pre with jfet front end but the price is not my budget friendly
 
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it's been a while i have not looked at amplifier anymore, focus on room treatment and speaker build. maybe 4 class a in my home should stop me because i can only use 1 at a time, even this situation forced to build 2nd speaker set :D

i consider super front end will be ZM iron pre with jfet front end but the price is not my budget friendly

I can't see Iron Pre in Store,yet.
So,how can you say anything about the price?
 
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with so small cores there can't be so dramatic difference in price - speaking of Slagle high-nickel core and Turtle Metglass

however , for same size core - Finemet is 4 times costlier than Metglass.....

however, best not to clutter this thread with I.P. ........ as I already wrote - I would be more than happy to help any Greedy Boy to make his own iteration - all you need is cheapest AVC on market , decent switches, few JFets and Good Gemini shunt reg - simple enough to make it on veroboard ....... yes , as with any reg - routing is tricky but we are here exactly to solve these tricks together

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L'Amp PSU sneak peek.

Do you even star ground, bro?
 

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Advantage...hm. I believe that with the given architecture - involving screw terminal caps, point-to-point wiring, voltage regulators and significant distances between building blocks - it is actually easier to implement star grounding. And with quiescent currents of up to 3A, I'd rather have a separate current return path for each PSU cap.

Almost done :)
 

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Alright, I finished the amp tonight and fired it up. Biasing went without a hitch, no smoke, no drama. Or so I thought. After hooking up some headphones I discovered that there's an awful lot of hum/buzz present. The scope showed a similar picture.

I'm suspecting the ground layout really. Currently all grounds meet at the star ground. I think I'll try and have the signal grounds and the bias supply ground meet at the VFET, and route it to the star ground from there.

Once I get the amp working quietly I'll pull some numbers from the circuit and mess around with finding the sweet spot.
 

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Alright, I finished the amp tonight and fired it up. Biasing went without a hitch, no smoke, no drama. Or so I thought. After hooking up some headphones I discovered that there's an awful lot of hum/buzz present. The scope showed a similar picture.

I'm suspecting the ground layout really. Currently all grounds meet at the star ground. I think I'll try and have the signal grounds and the bias supply ground meet at the VFET, and route it to the star ground from there.

Once I get the amp working quietly I'll pull some numbers from the circuit and mess around with finding the sweet spot.

Those light bulbs are awfully close to the V-Fets. Could they be inducing your hum/buzz?

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I couldn't get the negative supply generator to work like intended, so I'm converting it to a proper negative bias supply with a dedicated transformer. I have this small-ish 12VA 40Vac (230V primary) transformer that I'll be running off the 44Vac secondary of the main transformer, which should give me something like 11Vac or about -14Vdc to work with. I have also found a cozy place for the little fella:
 

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