bottledtone Here's a nice site with some pics of well known boutique amps http://spinoo.free.fr/projetG5/Images%20Amplis/
bottledtone I was surprised at the bruno......... Quite messy in there @mike: what you think of the pic I sent you on e-mail?
ezietsman MikeM wrote Thanks! Yow the DC30 is ugly inside. The Cornford carrera looks FANTASTICally neat! Wow, its a wonder it works at all, imagine you have to bugfix that
aja +1 karma The SLO is neat too! http://spinoo.free.fr/projetG5/Images%20Amplis/Soldano/SLO100%20original%20and%20clones/
AlanRatcliffe HiWatts were renowned for the neatness of their wiring: How about a BC Audio?: Tophat Club Royale:
[deleted] mmmm yummy Made me look for a Swart AST gutshot, found one of the AST Master Will maybe open mine up one day to for a sneak peek
MikeM BenjiTone, very neat stuff. I'm still trying to find a good solution for grounding my preamp cathodes... Atm I am thinking of something similar to this.. Or running a little bus off the side of my turretboard.. Hrrmmmmm
bottledtone MikeM wrote BenjiTone, very neat stuff. I'm still trying to find a good solution for grounding my preamp cathodes... Atm I am thinking of something similar to this.. Or running a little bus off the side of my turretboard.. Hrrmmmmm Even though those resistors are grid stopppers, you could use that idea for your amp. I remember you had cathode resistors off board. One idea is to run a bus from the centre pin of your sockets that the cathodes can ground to. Plus it will add shielding for pin to pin on the socket itself.
bottledtone MikeM wrote I can't really figure out what you're trying to explain BT ☹ Diagram perhaps? On the 9pin socket, there is normally a "10th" pin in the centre. If the bus bar (wire) is connected to this 10th pin, it acts as a shielding between these pins. You could do a bus from socket to socket or just the first sensitive stage and then across chassis near to where the mains earth is. Hope I explained it better.
makepeace Saw some gutshots of a couple of Swart amps the other day, mainly the 6v6se.. The general consensus was: not pretty. however, not pretty - not equal to - sounds ugly. Very much not the case. The Swarts sound magical from what I've heard. I have a feeling that people who get too preoccupied with their 90 degree wire bends don't really know cracking so much. A wire with 90 degree bends is by no means the shortest path from a to b. Some people have no discretion for things that should be earthly..
