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@Jcranmer- yeah, the idea is the person who has the box should contact the person on the list they are to send it to and get the address from them. I suppose people could be proactive and take a look at who is on the list just before them and PM their address to that person now or anytime before the box arrives.
When I sent the Box to that loud living guy most all the small stuff was contained inside a bigger item. Think Russian nesting dolls. I used every accessible void within every item in the box to carry something. I even used some smaller cardboard boxes to keep the really small stuff organized. There were also probably 30-40 2x2.5" small ziplock baggies used to keep each small item separated and identifiable.
@Daguin- there was a list of everything contained within the box when when I sent it on it's way. I would imagine it made it to you too. An inventory should have been able to been taken to see if their were lost items. I can't remember if I got insurance but if it happened to be purchased for it's trip to you a considerable claim might be had. It's doubtful there was insurance but I'm just sayin'.....
Anyone who takes the audio stuff might want to contact me directly for instructions on completion of any of those "projects" or kits. There was two amplifier boards (one large green and a smaller red), an unbuilt headphone amp kit (clone of a very well known and expensive boutique design), and a electron tube line drive/preamp "module/board" that can be used to drive medium to high impedance headphones or, with added 50K stereo (twin bank) potentiometer, be used as a line drive/ low gain preamp. With the exception of the large green amplifier board, all these projects are very high quality gear (or at least have the potential to be). The small red amp board uses the famous LM3886 amp IC and if implemented properly will be some of the cleanest 50+ wpc you'll hear. The headphone amp had upgraded Elna Cerafine capacitors added by me and when completed properly will stand up to any $1000 range headphone amp built today. The tube circuit uses some cheap but good Chinese or Russian reproduction electron tubes that can be swapped for the corresponding NOS vintage tubes of your choice (Telefunken, Seimens, RCA, etc) and will add that "tube" quality sound to a solid state system (basically increases the ratio of second order harmonic distortion to the first and third order any circuit has). Personally I would build this one out if I got the box. I would swap out the input poly caps with some better quality ones, build a super quiet silicon based power supply (solid state diode rectification with a RCRCRC smoothing filter totaling at least 1200uF (R 100uF R 470uF R 470uF) R values required to bring the final voltage to target (I think it was designed to operate around 250-300v). The green amp board is a well designed amp circuit that uses average parts and sounds decent. It provides about 100 wpc into 8ohm loads and is quiet and has low distortion. It's not ultra HiFi but it's not bad at all. On par with a Walmart out of the box Sony amplifier. If you've got a 20-25 volt center tapped transformer you could build it or the red one pretty easy. Volume control can be achieved on all these circuits by using a 50K stereo pot. Each will need a dedicated power supply built except the red amp board which has a PSU circuit on the board. It just requires wiring the +22/0/-22 volt transformer to the board! a volume control pot at the signal input, a signal source (CDP, IPod, etc), and some speakers to drive.
That's the bare bone basics on those projects. Some of you won't need any assistance I'm sure, others may need some hand holding. Just contact me if you need help and I will get you pointed in the right direction and help carry you through to completing one or all of them. All of them are worth finishing IMHO, I just didn't have the time and have way too many other projects of higher precedence than these.
Anyone here who ever wanted to get into DIY audio projects can feel free to contact me any time. I love discussing and building audio gear and love to get others into the hobby. I've got some really awesome project designs, especially tube amplifiers, that sound amazing and are fairly inexpensive and easy to complete.
Have a great weekend!
Jm
When I sent the Box to that loud living guy most all the small stuff was contained inside a bigger item. Think Russian nesting dolls. I used every accessible void within every item in the box to carry something. I even used some smaller cardboard boxes to keep the really small stuff organized. There were also probably 30-40 2x2.5" small ziplock baggies used to keep each small item separated and identifiable.
@Daguin- there was a list of everything contained within the box when when I sent it on it's way. I would imagine it made it to you too. An inventory should have been able to been taken to see if their were lost items. I can't remember if I got insurance but if it happened to be purchased for it's trip to you a considerable claim might be had. It's doubtful there was insurance but I'm just sayin'.....
Anyone who takes the audio stuff might want to contact me directly for instructions on completion of any of those "projects" or kits. There was two amplifier boards (one large green and a smaller red), an unbuilt headphone amp kit (clone of a very well known and expensive boutique design), and a electron tube line drive/preamp "module/board" that can be used to drive medium to high impedance headphones or, with added 50K stereo (twin bank) potentiometer, be used as a line drive/ low gain preamp. With the exception of the large green amplifier board, all these projects are very high quality gear (or at least have the potential to be). The small red amp board uses the famous LM3886 amp IC and if implemented properly will be some of the cleanest 50+ wpc you'll hear. The headphone amp had upgraded Elna Cerafine capacitors added by me and when completed properly will stand up to any $1000 range headphone amp built today. The tube circuit uses some cheap but good Chinese or Russian reproduction electron tubes that can be swapped for the corresponding NOS vintage tubes of your choice (Telefunken, Seimens, RCA, etc) and will add that "tube" quality sound to a solid state system (basically increases the ratio of second order harmonic distortion to the first and third order any circuit has). Personally I would build this one out if I got the box. I would swap out the input poly caps with some better quality ones, build a super quiet silicon based power supply (solid state diode rectification with a RCRCRC smoothing filter totaling at least 1200uF (R 100uF R 470uF R 470uF) R values required to bring the final voltage to target (I think it was designed to operate around 250-300v). The green amp board is a well designed amp circuit that uses average parts and sounds decent. It provides about 100 wpc into 8ohm loads and is quiet and has low distortion. It's not ultra HiFi but it's not bad at all. On par with a Walmart out of the box Sony amplifier. If you've got a 20-25 volt center tapped transformer you could build it or the red one pretty easy. Volume control can be achieved on all these circuits by using a 50K stereo pot. Each will need a dedicated power supply built except the red amp board which has a PSU circuit on the board. It just requires wiring the +22/0/-22 volt transformer to the board! a volume control pot at the signal input, a signal source (CDP, IPod, etc), and some speakers to drive.
That's the bare bone basics on those projects. Some of you won't need any assistance I'm sure, others may need some hand holding. Just contact me if you need help and I will get you pointed in the right direction and help carry you through to completing one or all of them. All of them are worth finishing IMHO, I just didn't have the time and have way too many other projects of higher precedence than these.
Anyone here who ever wanted to get into DIY audio projects can feel free to contact me any time. I love discussing and building audio gear and love to get others into the hobby. I've got some really awesome project designs, especially tube amplifiers, that sound amazing and are fairly inexpensive and easy to complete.
Have a great weekend!
Jm
