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benlefebvre
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Completed ZKIT - sounding great
12/01/18 at 17:40:54
 
Built almost a sort of PCB/P2P hybrid. Brazillian cherry wood chassis, aluminum top plate from Landfall, Audyn True Copper signal caps, one input going through a attenuator, the other bypassing volume control. Added the Hazen mod and the 50w resistor. Also have mA meters to make sure the tubes are good. The amp is a tad bit chunkier then I would consider perfect, and definitely doesn’t have a professional fit and finish, but for a first-time main amp DIY build, not bad. More importantly, it sounds very, very nice with about 50 hours on it. There’s a very slight hum that I am assuming is transformer vibration hum - it doesn’t sound/act like a ground hum -but it is inaudible once the music starts playing.

At one point I had an issue with bad voltages, but it boiled down to fundamentals - I spent some time cleaning up what must have been some bad solder joints and the voltages went into spec.  Make sure those joints are clean, folks.  ;)

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Re: Completed ZKIT - sounding great
Reply #1 - 12/01/18 at 17:42:50
 
Hey, nice work! Looks as if it sounds very good.
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Re: Completed ZKIT - sounding great
Reply #2 - 12/01/18 at 17:43:36
 
One pair of rhodium-plated inputs, one pair of copper-plated.
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Re: Completed ZKIT - sounding great
Reply #3 - 12/01/18 at 17:45:12
 
Thanks, Lon.
Side view. I’ll post a view of the guts later. Right now still “testing” it, though the test has been going on for about a week now - it’s sounding that good that I’m not in a huge hurry to unplug it.
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