Today we work on populating our second of three PCB’s: the Power Supply Board. This will be a fairly brief account since we’ve seen nearly all the required building techniques before. Here’s the board itself with the resistors installed. These are of the somewhat more challenging, surface mounted variety: bend and trim the leads, tin … More Building the power supply pcb
Welcome back, friends and followers! Let’s get going with another installment of this Audio Note Kit 1 build, shall we? Today we’ll be building the Driver Board PCB, which will be our first foray into soldering lots of components onto a printed circuit board. Buckle up and come along for the ride. First, the board … More Building the Driver PCB
Hello again, solder fans. Welcome to another episode of Adventures In Kit Building. The next step in our Audio Note Kit 1 build is assembling and soldering the hard-wired components of the 300 B driver tubes. The “TAG strip” pictured below comes in a much longer than needed size, so your first task is trimming … More 300 b Hardwiring
Hi, Gang, First, to my subscribers, thanks for following this blog! Knowing that there are people actually reading it “out there” makes writing it all the more fun. So, today we’ll look at the installation of the IEC power section. This is the first part of the build that involves soldering, so there’s a milestone … More IEC Section
Good morning! When we last left our intrepid hobbyist (me), I had just mounted the Mother Of All Mains Transformers on the chassis. Our Audio Note Kit 1 build saga continues today with the affixing of the remaining transformers. By the way, “RGA,” a reviewer, Audio Note fan and frequent poster to the SET Asylum on AudioAsylum.com … More Initial Build, Part III: More Transformers!
Yesterday I was able to get another hour or so into the build of my Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp. Here are some pics – please excuse the grainy quality; these were taken with my cell phone and the lighting wasn’t ideal. The next step was to install 6, 10 mm, hex-shaped standoffs. With female … More Initial Build: Chassis Hardware, Part II
Last night, I started to work through the initial build steps of my Audio Note Kit 1. These consist of fitting a variety of hardware components to the chassis. No soldering yet; these first steps are all strictly mechanical. Brian sent me three PDF files of build instructions. These are extensively illustrated with captioned photos, … More Initial Build: Chassis Hardware, Part I
Today, a box the size of Box #1 but about 2.5 times as heavy showed up at my office. It contains the four transformers that go into the Audio Note Kit 1. Yes, this box weighs just shy of 40 pounds. Here are some unpacking photos: Again, the styrofoam peanuts… Clearing away the top layer reveals … More Big Box #2: The transformers
Okay, then! The first box from Audionote Kits in Canada arrived on Friday, December 12, 2014. It weighed 15 or so pounds. This largish box contained all the PCB’s, electronic parts, casework, wire and so forth. Missing were three of the tubes, which were backordered and should ship this week, including the Impressive Looking 300B’s, … More Arrival of the first Big Box
Well, two of my three packages have shipped out from Audio Note in Canada. The first to arrive will probably be the heaviest box containing the transformers. That the transformer box alone weighs about 38.5 pounds tells you something about the “serious iron” that this amp will pack. It should arrive here in Austin in … More In transit…
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