Model ONE Build - S/N 0005 & 0006

[VSAT88]

Wrong shipper will break an anvil!

 

[Mohawk]

A Fed X guy once told me to never put a "fragile" label on anything.
Apparently the look for them and the challenge is to break it !

 

[Gibsonian]

All power up testing completed without issue and playing music on the bench.

Even with modest speakers at my bench, the sound is noticeably more tight and detailed in the bass.

Joe has created one special amp with this project... I could not recommend more, and I'm only using a Bluesound Node and RCA inputs at the moment.

Can't wait to get this in the main listening room for the real test (after the wife leaves the house...).

Eric were you able to do the real test on the mains system with an absent wife?

 

[Hexis22]

Eric were you able to do the real test on the mains system with an absent wife?

Not yet unfortunately, family home for the holidays. I’ve been working on assembling all the PCBs for amp 0006 while listening to amp 0005 next to the bench.

Both kids departing back to college today, so hopefully I can get some quality time with this monster in the main system soon.

 

[Gepetto]

A Fed X guy once told me to never put a "fragile" label on anything.
Apparently the look for them and the challenge is to break it !

I would think that is a career ending move when a package is insured for big bucks and FedX has to shell out for the claim...

 

[62vauxhall]

A Fed X guy once told me to never put a "fragile" label on anything.
Apparently the look for them and the challenge is to break it !

The exact same thing happened 10 or so years ago when I took a very well packaged TEAC open reel deck to FedEx for shipping. It was going from Vancouver, BC to Montreal, Quebec.

I asked for some "Fragile" stickers and was that told they no longer provide them. The clerk said that the reason was if a packege was identified as "fragile" it became a target and was a near gurantee that it would be purposely handled as roughly as possible.

 

[Gepetto]

A lot of cameras have happened in 10 years time...game changing.