Westminsters

[Reid Malenfant]

Mark
You are reading my mind, scary! But seriously thanks so much for your encouragement along the way.

I have an Audio Research Ref 2 Mk2 Pre amp on order, used of course. What are your thought on Class A Power amps that would possibly match this.....tubes probably.
On the vinyl side I have a Linn with Ittock Arm and Dynavector 20dXX Cartridge and the Phono Stage is a Linto.

Hi David, in all honesty I'm not the ideal person to recommend any valve amps as I have never owned one Plenty of others here who can do that though

Actually thinking about it I can recommend at least one valve amp Get yourself something like Marco's copper amp! Fantastic sound with power to spare, it'd blow you away...

However, as you appear to be keen on DIY you could always tackle the updated John Linsley Hood class A power amps if you put your mind to it (well I reckon you could at any rate). These are 30W RMS per channel monoblocks, with low open loop gain & thus low feedback - which makes them rather musical indeed...

[Welder]

They look absolutely lovely David

[Jonboy]

This is definitely in the top 5 (if not actually no1) of the best builds done on AoS, chaps, is it not?

Marco.

i think you will find its the room size that makes a difference to the sound more than anything

[Thing Fish]

I can't wait to hear them (Virtually)...

[daveskis]

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[bobbasrah]

Have been following this build with interest and considerable curiosity. Truly beautiful cabinet-work and detailing.

[goraman]

Very impressive, but they have a big empty hole in them...

[Reid Malenfant]

I just did a brief calculation using some of the panel dimensions to work out the enclosure volume taken up & it's not small

Leaving out the top panels & the small stand they are each over half a cubic meter in volume

I thought I was going to build some big speakers, but they'll be a bit smaller than these

Come on Dave, nearly there now fella

[spendorman]

They look like a work of art, absolutely fabulous.

Are you going to seal in inside faces of the wood? I wonder if it would stabilise the structure.

I am at present listening to a pair of HPD315's in very tatty Devon enclosures.

Every amp I have tried them with seems OK. So far tried a Hong Kong EL34 single ended, Radford STA25 III, NAD 3130, Quad 303, Pioneer SA-410, Luxman L-200, and believe it or not, an 80's Ferguson plasticky music centre, and that too sounds fine.