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Nat it was a long one to keep track of, the good threads always are. first impressions are good, very good.
Paul, i think I'm juts going to build it up low-rent in the first instance, using crappy plugs and any old coax for signal. Once I'm 100% sure of the locations of all the parts and routing then I'll move onto something better, so i might be in touch in a couple of weeks.
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I'm not much of a cable guy... being a hard-core DIYer.
But I do know that you could try all the RCA jacks in the world and never find one better than just making a captive cable tied directly into the MPP's input.
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That's a great suggestion. Except this will be in 3 boxes when finished and my tonearm cable is one piece, so if I soldered it to the boards I'd have to remove the tonearm to move the boxes round...
I like ruthless minimalism as much as the next man but that may be too hairshirt even for me. I'll settle for a continuous shield from headshell to input points on the board via short lengths of internal coax.
Ring-Ring! Awesome my transformers are here. I can wire up the other channel.
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Are you restricted to RCA phonos in something that is for your own personal use?
I've never actually done any listening comparisons between RCA & other types of connector but do find it plausible that other types might give a better result.
Of course it would then require custom cabling but you could certainly hardwire the o/p cables in place.
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The other option to consider is a phono-DIN.
Or Lemos. They are really nice.
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Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I went with the cheap AudioNote silvers, because they have a small hole mount diameter which leaves room for fancy plugs later.
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Well I finally got it all wired and fired yesterday. Left channel was a little hollow sounding and stereo was a bit off. Traced it down a short between the source and gate of one of the transistors that feed a current mirror. Dirty dollop of solder removed and hey presto.
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Lizzie caught me making some annotations to mod my phonostage this morning, and asked me what all the symbols meant, capacitor, LED and resistors. This afternoon she came in while I was soldering and asked if she could make something for my hifi.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8324/8...f4f163cc_c.jpg
The chav cap was her idea...
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The girl's got talent. I think you should make the led light up for her though.
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Next time round I'll do a couple handing over a baton in a relay race that way i can make it a circuit.