hatrack71
distracted by everything
I picked up some heat sinks, angled aluminum and some populated PASS ACA boards. I owned these amps in stock kit form once but never really got to listen to them before a man from Oregon made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Well, I got these together in the last 3 days to see what I missed. I am impressed with these little guys on the right speakers. Nice tight, extended bass and really nice wide and deep imaging.
I used a piece of 6061 aluminum for the face plates and cocobola wood for the side pieces. I used brass wood inserts and lightly threaded and epoxied them in as cocobola is hard as heck and terrible for threads...... and tiny drill bits. :sigh: Anyway, I couldn't even finish sanding the aluminum and cocobola because I wanted to hear them so badly. Did I mention you can fry an egg on these after about an hour of listening. I'm glad I used really hard wood so as it won't combust. These are pics of them still in the rough stage cosmetically. I am going to polish the outside of the aluminum heatsinks too. 2500 grit wet and then Brasso. I'm happy with the small form factor. Now I am trying to find a cool preamp design to go with these that is also small form factor. I already built the chassis. I'm looking at Hypnotoad's pre that he came up with. Any ideas welcome that I could cram into a 4.5" x 5" x 2" box. No, I didn't mean to have different colored LEDs. It's all I had. I will match them when I can find one or the other. Got to admit, I like the amber.
I used a piece of 6061 aluminum for the face plates and cocobola wood for the side pieces. I used brass wood inserts and lightly threaded and epoxied them in as cocobola is hard as heck and terrible for threads...... and tiny drill bits. :sigh: Anyway, I couldn't even finish sanding the aluminum and cocobola because I wanted to hear them so badly. Did I mention you can fry an egg on these after about an hour of listening. I'm glad I used really hard wood so as it won't combust. These are pics of them still in the rough stage cosmetically. I am going to polish the outside of the aluminum heatsinks too. 2500 grit wet and then Brasso. I'm happy with the small form factor. Now I am trying to find a cool preamp design to go with these that is also small form factor. I already built the chassis. I'm looking at Hypnotoad's pre that he came up with. Any ideas welcome that I could cram into a 4.5" x 5" x 2" box. No, I didn't mean to have different colored LEDs. It's all I had. I will match them when I can find one or the other. Got to admit, I like the amber.
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