About a month ago I had an exchange with a reader talking about The Purpleheart Signal Meters and modifying the project to provide multiple inputs and some gain balancing. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought in the last couple of weeks because I have the same needs. So I think this is going to be my next major project.
Continue readingWell, it took a while but I’ve finally settled on the wood for the new amp chassis. I had narrowed the decision down to either the Purple Heart as I used in The 6DJ8 Headphone Amp or the Wenge that I used in the Dummy Speaker Load. So I took a careful look at both previous projects.
Continue readingI have been doing internal layout work and making some design decisions concerning the new SET amplifier. I have also been looking at different materials and I decided that I wanted to make the top plate holding the transformers and tubes of brushed copper. While this is an simple decision to make at this point, it raises the issue of what wood to choose for the chassis frame.
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