Northwind's 400 to WOPL 500

Somebody gotta get their balls busted everday, or it wouldn't be us...
 
laatsch55 said:
From a bare chassis thats a lot of work..
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Sure is, that last little bunch of wires would have drove me nuts alone. That board holder is pretty cool indeed, does it rotate like a rotisserie?
 
I admire your patience, Jerry. Taking a picture through the process helps me understand more each time I witness a build going on. Do you allow yourself to have a coffee while working?

Nando.
 
Elite-ist said:
I admire your patience, Jerry. Taking a picture through the process helps me understand more each time I witness a build going on. Do you allow yourself to have a coffee while working?

Nando.
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Can't work without my "Seattle's Best 5", sir! :mrgreen: Hopefully this evening we'll be putting this amp up for a listen. As Lee is sure to chime in, each successive amp build gets better and better when we think of new ways to do each step. Although I probably won't be able to afford the "blackgate" caps... 'cept for my own 700B when Joe releases the backplanes for it. :thumbright:
 
And I still don't know if they're worth it. But I heard a quote the other day--"The law of diminishing returns only counts if you run out of money"
 
He is moving right along. I wish I had half the knowledge and half the patience to be able to pull this off. If I did I would be modding the hell out of stuff lol
 
I'm not going to say that the physical implementation of these mods is easy, but the design of these mods is considerably harder.
 
laatsch55 said:
I'm not going to say that the physical implementation of these mods is easy, but the design of these mods is considerably harder.
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I don't think this is conventional modding in the sense of the word. This is building an entirely new amplifier from the ground up that happens to fit in a PL chassis by design. Any one of the individual components could be construed as a mod but doing them all at once adds up to something so far from Bob's original design that it can only be described as a new amplifier that stands on it's own merits but shares a chassis, tranny and meters from a legendary precursor. I wonder what Bob Carver would say if he heard one of these?
 
He may indeed hear Steves 700B that is up next. This 700B belonged to Bob Carver and was carried by same on the trade show circuit. Steve won it from Bob on a bet over something. I am to do whatever I want on this one too and I got a feelin Bob is going to wind up hearing this one.
 
Up to this point Joe has not strayed very far from the basic topology. Improved components, some tweaking on the routing of traces, elimination of turn on/off thump but basically the same.
 
laatsch55 said:
Up to this point Joe has not strayed very far from the basic topology. Improved components, some tweaking on the routing of traces, elimination of turn on/off thump but basically the same.
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I have a feeling that if you could find a NOS PL amp unused in the box to compare to a WOPL, it would suffer the same fate as the Rowland, the Parasound and quite likely the McIntosh's but I understand what your saying
 
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