One down, one to go!

[bjorgens]

First attempt at a post failed, so here goes again...Left channel done, hope to have the right one completed soon.  Many thanks to the bottlehead folks for providing me with such fun and distraction

Apologies for the poor quality phone pics...

Bryan

 

[Maxwell_E]

Absolutely beautiful. Wardsweb would approve of those top plates. And I'm really digging the bamboo bases from Blumenstein, very understated and classy.

 

[bjorgens]

Thanks... I must admit that I cheated a bit and had top plates fab'd from 304 #8 finish stainless.

The blumenstein bases really are pretty... Kudos to Molly and Clark for their work !

Bryan

 

[saildoctor]

Very nice lookin'.  What kind of cap do you have there hovering over the 4-pin socket?

 

[bjorgens]

thanks.

It's a Duelund CAST...0.1uF/ 630V.

b

 

[jrebman]

Hey Bryan,

You saw the sale on the duelunds too, eh? ;-)

I just ordered a pair of 1.0 uF cast pios for my new preamp.  Thought about the Eros output caps too, but I don't want too many pios in the system and I'm going to stick with the vcap CuTFs there.

-- Jim

 

[bjorgens]

yep...  now they're only crazy expensive instead of utterly ludicrous 

 

[ike]

Wow!  Beautiful work, thanks for sharing!

 

[Hank Murrow]

I'm going to stick with the vcap CuTFs there.

-- Jim

Good decision Jim, I have them in the Eros phonostage PB built for me and love them.

Cheers, Hank

 

[jrebman]

I also think that PJ calculated that you could use as low as .22 uF there with no sonic penalty, and I also think Grainger connfirmed this.

I'm also thinking about the tftf .01 and .015s for the RIAA caps, but I'm a sickey.

-- Jim