JamieMcC
New member
Cheers Bottlehead, you guys really have cooked up a superb amp with the Mainline.
I finished up my build earlier today and the Mainline is a absolute triumph suffice to say I am over the moon and have been glued to it for most of the evening and envisage it being a late night.
Much to my surprise all the resistance checks and voltage checks where bang on the money and the only thing that required a little rework during the build was I had to re-orientate one of the Neutrik head outs which I put it with the locking release button facing forward and only noticed when it came to hooking up as the orientation did not match with the instructions it only took a couple of minutes to re position and other than that little hiccup the build has been very enjoyable and has gone like a dream with absolutely no other problems what so ever.
Build time for hooking up ran around 16-18 hours in total in several sessions over three days. I am a bit dyslexic and I must have re-read each step at least four times or more and ohm'd out every resistor, my illuminated magnifying glass also had a good work out.
There was a little bit of head scratching at the end as I had two 100K 2W resistors and one 1μF 50V capacitor left in the parts box. but after a bit of searching through the manual and comparing with the parts list they turned out to be surplus phew!
Some build pics
I finished up my build earlier today and the Mainline is a absolute triumph suffice to say I am over the moon and have been glued to it for most of the evening and envisage it being a late night.
Much to my surprise all the resistance checks and voltage checks where bang on the money and the only thing that required a little rework during the build was I had to re-orientate one of the Neutrik head outs which I put it with the locking release button facing forward and only noticed when it came to hooking up as the orientation did not match with the instructions it only took a couple of minutes to re position and other than that little hiccup the build has been very enjoyable and has gone like a dream with absolutely no other problems what so ever.
Build time for hooking up ran around 16-18 hours in total in several sessions over three days. I am a bit dyslexic and I must have re-read each step at least four times or more and ohm'd out every resistor, my illuminated magnifying glass also had a good work out.
There was a little bit of head scratching at the end as I had two 100K 2W resistors and one 1μF 50V capacitor left in the parts box. but after a bit of searching through the manual and comparing with the parts list they turned out to be surplus phew!
Some build pics
