Inside High End Equipment

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8 hours ago, accwai said:

Ok, inside photos of older gear:

 

Yamamoto A-09S

 

 

Single-ended stereo amp with 8W per channel. Photo above from review article at 6moons.com. Neat point-to-point wiring totally by hand. High quality components throughout, down to the inhouse wound transformers/choke and tube sockets manufactured inhouse. I used to have the predecessor model A-09. The inside has this Zen-like serenity to it 

 

The Yamamoto stuff is art...

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13 minutes ago, marce said:

No its a mess.

 

Like this?

 

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2 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

 

Finally a DAC that can create the conditions of the Original Experience...

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I have always enjoyed this thread so I hope that it will not close.

 

Perhaps others will join in with some internal glamour (or not so much) shots or their own equipment.

 

Here is a shot of a SinglePower Extreme headphone amp that I had to modify to make safe after it was discovered that the original builder had made many questionable circuit choices. It always worked well for me but others had experienced issues. I replaced the original power transformer with a properly spec'd custom one which was not easy because I had to keep the mainboard in place while doing it. The builder had used a small 12v filament transformer and reversed it to get the B+ voltage. Some of these transformers literally melted as they also produced the filament voltage. Creative but not sound engineering.

 

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3 hours ago, Solstice380 said:

 

OK so I get the heavy gauge wire, but no insulation?  Darwin Award!

 

I guess that it is OK when you also have no mains ground wire? 😬

 

(Needless to say but I will anyway. Just kidding!)