Posted by DRCope [ 66.168.44.241 ] on March 07, 2005 at 08:08:35:

In Reply to: Re: Measuring sensitivity posted by JLapaire on March 07, 2005 at 07:30:41:

That sounds very cool. I remember your Karlsons volunteering to tear down my Glastonbury shop two years ago!

I've got two definites, a maybe and a wild card:
The easy definite is that I'm going to tweak one of my AN Kit 4 amps to see how far it will go. The other definite is that I'm building the AN Kit Preamp, and I'll try hard NOT to tweak the hell out of it so it remains a $729 full function pre w/phono, rather than double that with killer caps, resistors and wire.

The maybe is an iron-rich, scratch-built 2A3 stereo amp with AN chokes, OPTs and interstage xfrmrs. I have the schematic, contemplating parts choices and I will build it; I just don't know it will be done for the Spring meet.

The wild card is that I've been thinking of building a pair of speakers - everything from a Fostex back horn to Diatones to revisiting my TAD/JBL/TAD beasts using Bill Martinelli's 22" horn & 2" compression driver and eliminating the JBL mid. The whole thing is crazy since I'm up to my keister in speakers to begin with. Then again, the same is true of preamps and amps.

Timing will be interesting since I've committed to doing the Great Plains Audio Fest and I want to do the Bot Do, which will be within weeks of each other - late April - Early May-ish.

I've just got the build bug. I think I'm going to introduce my son, who turns 12 this week, to the joys of building stuff. I'll ask my daughter, too. She actually learned to solder in a science class in middle school last year. She's probably too busy being an angst-ridden yet aloof teen to be bothered with it, but I'll ask anyway.

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