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some of my other diy projects


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23 hours ago, SuperStu said:

Nice touch with the handles!

 

Are we just hi-fi pic whoring now? If so...

 

Bought this second hand for my 18th birthday (Spring 1999) for £100 off my 6th form teacher. If there’s a better way to spend £100, I’d like to know about it!

 

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It went in storage in 2009 when I went to South America for a year. Then it came back out again in 2019 because I bought a house and also inherited this from my Great Uncle...

 

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The amp still sounded ok but had some issues (this model is prone to them due to its insane operating temp of 65C, being 30 years old and 10 years of no use) and went away for service and overhaul (all electrolytic capacitors replaced for high temperature audio grade components, much cleaning, re-soldering and many other small things). I absolutely love it.

Nice 1200 mk2, I still have a pair of those 

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well since there is little progress on the Z lately I thought I'd up date this thread at least 

I decided I didn't like the look of my valve amp so it's now a big pile of bits but after a few hours in cad I set my CNC router to work 

on some perspex,oak and black Bakelite it's looking like this 

 

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might even get it finished this weekend

:)

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15 hours ago, SuperStu said:

Glorious that mate. How’s the sound?

Very nice but a little quiet mainly due to the fact that the  Ruark Templars they're driving are infinite baffle sealed units so need to be driven a little harder

not a big issue still loud enough to annoy the neighbors as to the sound and the argument between solid state and valve amps it's very subjective personally I like that 

valve amp sound and the looks but each to his own

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4 hours ago, DoogyRev said:

I recently purchased another amp . . .  liking the improved sound that Bi-Amping brings. Time for you to build another :lol: 

 

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Strange you should mention that I already have another 3 in the pipeline 2 are just because I have enough stuff sitting around and the third is the one i shall be keeping :)

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