700 Series II Build

[Sunnbobb]

Very impressive!

 

[Cafe944]

Housing assembly started with backplanes boards and heat sink fins installed.

DM Sent

 

[Hexis22]

Made some progress over the past few days.

Caring for elder parents is starting to take a toll on free time outside of the day job.

Cylon LED meters fully assembled and cleaned.

All remaining components thoroughly cleaned and mounted to mid-plate .

 

[J!m]

I was caring for my dad on weekends before he went into the VA… it’s demanding in many ways.

 

[Hexis22]

All non-control board wires terminated and ready for initial power up testing.

AC and fuse holder wire terminationed with service loops to prevent stress on solder joints when inserting fuses..

Triac power switch installed between backplane boards.

 

[Vintage 700b]

All non-control board wires terminated and ready for initial power up testing.

AC and fuse holder wire terminationed with service loops to prevent stress on solder joints when inserting fuses..

Triac power switch installed between backplane boards.

As always, you set the standard Eric, beautiful work !!!!

 

[Hexis22]

As always, you set the standard Eric, beautiful work !!!!

Thank you!

I appreciate the feedback.

 

[Hexis22]

Initial power up testing completed without issue and all measured voltages as expected. Time to stab all the output drivers into place.

The transformer is healthy at +/-105V DC rails and 12V AC Cylon meter supply.

Control board supplies at +/- 15V DC.

 

[laatsch55]

Simply wonderful Eric.....no need to cut off an ear though.

 

[AKdeVo]

Man that looks so good!

 

[gene french]

Simply wonderful Eric.....no need to cut off an ear though.

NOR consider suicide!!!
lol

 

[Hexis22]

RG316 coax terminated between RCA inputs and control board.

Faceplate with Cylon meters all wired up and ready for output testing and meter calibration.

 

[Hexis22]

Meters calibrated, bias set to 0.350V and it's playing music on the bench.

Just need the Black faceplate and this project is a wrap...

 

[gene french]

nice.....very nice...

 

[laatsch55]

Something terribly wrong with feeding a WOPL with a small streaming device.....

 

[gene french]

Something terribly wrong with feeding a WOPL with a small streaming device.....

lololol

 

[AKdeVo]

Man I can not wait to get that thing playing in the shop!
Killer work Eric!
Really appreciate you going out of your way to answer all my questions and all the advice on setting my system up.

 

[Hexis22]

Something terribly wrong with feeding a WOPL with a small streaming device.....

Agree, even a good USB DAC does not come close to realizing the sonic qualities or potential of a WOPL.

Garbage in, much louder garbage out…

It works well for a first bench level test though.

 

[Sunnbobb]

I am very happy feeding my Wopl with a WiiM mini streaming Flac over Tidal...

 

[Gibsonian]

I am very happy feeding my Wopl with a WiiM mini streaming Flac over Tidal...

I don’t feed my WOPL a lot of digital, but when I do, it’s WIIM mini