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Kimber TCSS - The perfect marriage of Teflon and c. Peavey Schematics - Amp Repair Parts Manuals and free owners instruction pdf guides.The Millett Jonokuchi Headphone & Speaker Amplifier.Using Silver Plated Copper for Speaker Cables.The version I have has the 'speed ball' current source which brings its cost up to US 430. It was sold from one member to another and kindly sent to me in between for testing. Recabling the Venerable Koss KSC75 Headphones This is a review and detailed measurements of a (built) Bottlehead Crack Tube headphone amplifier.Complete Restoration of a Dynaco PAS Pre Amp.with a section below dedicated to the C4S modification (a Bottlehead add. This first part of this review refers to the non-C4S modded version of the S.E.X. also happens to drive speakers which is a nice piece of flexibility, but IвЂ™ll get to that later. Schematics, Service manual, or circuit diagram for Marshall Schematic 1.80 ( 2.50 or 2. The Triad C7X seemed to add a little bit of smoothness to the presentation, but it could be placebo. The Bottlehead Single-Ended ExperimenterвЂ™s (or S.E.X.) kit amplifier is the mid-level headphone amplifier in BottleheadвЂ™s range.The S.E.X. As most things in Audio, it comes down to your own experimentation and taste. Some engineers, such as the ones at Bottlehead don't believe that bypassing is worthwhile for various reasons, but other engineers such as John Broskie known for his Aikido amplifiers bypass nearly every cap on his PCBs. In the power supply, it can help reduce ripple. There's plenty to read on Google about bypassing caps, so I won't get into it too much, but using a nicer quality bypass cap can potentially increase detail in coupling configurations. The 5W are just generic wirewound, they are a little nicer than the sandcast resistors that come with the kit imho but they don't really bring any sonic benefit that I noticed.Д«ypass caps are wired in parallel and a general rule of thumb is that they should be 1% or less of the value they are bypassing. I wouldn't bother replacing the 10W resistors with anything fancy as they get thrown out when the Speedball is installed. The rest you will need to get from PartsConnexion or Percy Audio for ~ $1 each. Mouser only has half or so of the available values, and they sell for ~24-44 cents each.

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The following table, is about some personal experience, how to best deal with this model amplifier. The 2 watt Kiwames are sold as Koa Speers at Mouser. The list of amplifiers which need special attention. You should definitely pick up the Speedball, it makes a huge difference and I believe it's set to go up in price.