A mad amount of projects. Mostly Class-A, but other interesting bits as well...

[6L6]

James - how did the Naim clones sound? I've been somewhat interested in that for some time.

I need to take some photos of my current Valve linestage project, a John Broskie "Aikido". It's coming along nicely.

[istari_knight]

James - how did the Naim clones sound? I've been somewhat interested in that for some time.

I need to take some photos of my current Valve linestage project, a John Broskie "Aikido". It's coming along nicely.

Sorry, only just spotted this ! In completely stock form using only components included with the PCB's it sounded okay but really nothing to write home about... Did have very groovy bass though.

Consequently I substituted many of the components [ceramic caps for polystyrene, electrolytic caps for tantalum, BC transistors for ZTX etc] essentially by the time I finished I had replicated what Naim used on their boards with great improvements in sound quality. The groovy bass was still present but with added refinement & all round quality which was previously missing.

In a nutshell I would say the standard boards sound like a PA amp but when fitted with Naim spec parts they really come close the real thing. I would highly recommend them If you wanted a list of all the necessary parts to make it a proper Naim clone I could rummage through my notes... Let me know.