Perforated aluminium top-plate fitted
And in the system and playing music: Niiice.

Wiring completed: Inputs are cap-coupled using green Nichicon Muse bipolar electrolytics and the outputs have the traditional 10 Ohm/100nF Zobel network across them.

Power supply under construction, with a pair of 10,000uF SuperTech, slit-foil capacitors: Boards mounted, ground bus installed and power transistors bolted to thick alloy plate, which makes use of the case as a heatsink.

I’ve just completed another NVA based project using another pair of RD’s boards: I bent up 1.5mm aluminium, added filtered power inlet, sockets on the rear and mounted a 30-0-30V, 300VA toroidal transformer.

Happy New Year everyone.

HOOTENANNY! Oops…wrong week.
Merry Christmas

Watching now the Northern Soul Prom from the Albert Hall. KTF.

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (1977) on the original vinyl.

Ok, so we are now a couple of months into life with the messed about with NVA amp amp boards with twin power supplies and built-in separately powered phono stage, so I thought I might try the single-ended pentode amp for a while. I let it warm up over a one hour time period before letting it loose o...

Been going through some of my soul collection on vinyl and reviving some long unplayed albums: The Trammps - "The legendary Zing Album" (1975) Anita Baker - "Rapture." (1986) Heatwave - "Too Hot To Handle" (1976) Maze - "We Are One." (1983) Shalamar - "Fr...