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Bit of this, bit of that
I popped in to see Les today, the little note on the website about new products finally got the better of me, I needed some bits for a couple of builds.
I think I'm keeping the Superline, so it really deserves a better power supply than it had and lo-and-behold Les pulls a new module out of his box of tricks. A variant on his highly regarded ASX Hicap upgrade, but this is an all in one rectifier, smoother regulator module- and it's a shunt reg. It looks a little like a mini TPX board, but Les assures me there's nothing mini about its performance. I'll report back once it's built up.
I'm also messing about with power supplies for my Young dac, or rather power supplies for other peoples Young dacs and I'm trying to match the sound of the battery pack with a regulated supply. The Teddyreg comes close, really close, but I think there's more to be had, and I think it comes down to Impedance. So what would Les have but a new TPR2 ( it might be called the TPRS actually, there were too many bits to remember).
We get talking about bits and bobs and pop upstairs for a brew and Ginger-Snaps, can't beat em. Anyway, cycling leads to golf, leads to polymers, leads to carbon loaded structural foam, leads to laser interferometry. He's been busy has our Les. All this composite talk was leading to what amounts, as best as I can visualize it, to an almost entirely new LP12. Not a bit here and a bit there, pretty much everything except the plinth and motor.
Biscuits eaten and coffee slurped we pop back downstairs to assemble my box of bits and there on the shelf at the bottom of the stairs in metalwork land were 7 tonearms, lined up like silver and gold Oscars. Tie-wire pre-tensioned arm tubes, litz wired, magnetically repulsed pillar bearing. Looking very much the product of a furtive and fertile mind, and according to Les they are just about ready to head out into the wide world to find temporary homes with respected reviewers and the keenest lovers of analogue.
Long story short, the new tracking pre reg jobbies look excellent and so does the shunt reg module. I'll report back once I get them built up. (probably tomorrow ).
Si
I think I'm keeping the Superline, so it really deserves a better power supply than it had and lo-and-behold Les pulls a new module out of his box of tricks. A variant on his highly regarded ASX Hicap upgrade, but this is an all in one rectifier, smoother regulator module- and it's a shunt reg. It looks a little like a mini TPX board, but Les assures me there's nothing mini about its performance. I'll report back once it's built up.
I'm also messing about with power supplies for my Young dac, or rather power supplies for other peoples Young dacs and I'm trying to match the sound of the battery pack with a regulated supply. The Teddyreg comes close, really close, but I think there's more to be had, and I think it comes down to Impedance. So what would Les have but a new TPR2 ( it might be called the TPRS actually, there were too many bits to remember).
We get talking about bits and bobs and pop upstairs for a brew and Ginger-Snaps, can't beat em. Anyway, cycling leads to golf, leads to polymers, leads to carbon loaded structural foam, leads to laser interferometry. He's been busy has our Les. All this composite talk was leading to what amounts, as best as I can visualize it, to an almost entirely new LP12. Not a bit here and a bit there, pretty much everything except the plinth and motor.
Biscuits eaten and coffee slurped we pop back downstairs to assemble my box of bits and there on the shelf at the bottom of the stairs in metalwork land were 7 tonearms, lined up like silver and gold Oscars. Tie-wire pre-tensioned arm tubes, litz wired, magnetically repulsed pillar bearing. Looking very much the product of a furtive and fertile mind, and according to Les they are just about ready to head out into the wide world to find temporary homes with respected reviewers and the keenest lovers of analogue.
Long story short, the new tracking pre reg jobbies look excellent and so does the shunt reg module. I'll report back once I get them built up. (probably tomorrow ).
Si
