chipwelder
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I am trying to purchase a Ludo headphone amp kit... This has turned out to be more problematic than actually getting a Ludo Headphone amp kit. However putting Ludo's headphone amp into a nice enough box, sorting all the odds and ends, was always going to take me a while... Enter Ludo stage left with all the bits and bobs completed... just needs a box... I can listen to it if I connect mains... 8)
Unfortunately while I make space to swing a cat below shoulder height in the workshop... the wife has now started to kidnap tools and projects that are left unnattended in the lounge/stoep... The ransom is often steep... :
This could cause more marital discord than I am fit to deal with. But I desperately wanted to hear it, as Ludo has improved on the one I previously listened to... And I am getting severe headphone withdrawel symptoms...
Enter the Sunday afternoon flightcase with the main feature that it can be stowed rather quickly once I have listened to it, it doesn't scratch the hi-fi cabinet and it will probably not kill me... now truly it is a disgrace to put this headphone amp into such a tamatiekassie, but I am truthful to a fault and here it is warts and all, hopefully this one stays out of the hall of shame...
To Ludo's credit I must note that staying true to my name I killed an XO board when I tried to make space in my pre-amp box for this amp - I have taken this box apart and put back together at least fifty times, something manages to go wrong about half the time I put it back together again, so i am not overly concerned... yet I managed to mistake + and - on the psu so byebye left channel xo board... Yet Ludo's headphone amp lives and breathes, that takes serious doing. Furthermore it will not go into the pre-amp box anymore, on the off-chance I may build an office hp system for "working" and then I'll need to move it again. I listened past midnight and inbetween making breakfast this morning. The wife got a silly grin when listening to her fav cd... last night - this is a good sign. This morning she started dancing to our opening dance song for the wedding... 8) (note to self this is a good way to make up for staying out of bed till late.)
A note to prospective owners it takes a little while to get up to the great sound, before that it sounds fine, but the music seems just not quite right, I don't know how long, definitely no more than 30 min, but more than 10min. It managed to confirm Ludo's assertion that the pre-amp switching in the technics SU-V8 best be left out of the equation - it also makes, things just not right, rather plug it straight into the GerDAC... then the music sounds right...
Unfortunately while I make space to swing a cat below shoulder height in the workshop... the wife has now started to kidnap tools and projects that are left unnattended in the lounge/stoep... The ransom is often steep... :
This could cause more marital discord than I am fit to deal with. But I desperately wanted to hear it, as Ludo has improved on the one I previously listened to... And I am getting severe headphone withdrawel symptoms... Enter the Sunday afternoon flightcase with the main feature that it can be stowed rather quickly once I have listened to it, it doesn't scratch the hi-fi cabinet and it will probably not kill me... now truly it is a disgrace to put this headphone amp into such a tamatiekassie, but I am truthful to a fault and here it is warts and all, hopefully this one stays out of the hall of shame...
To Ludo's credit I must note that staying true to my name I killed an XO board when I tried to make space in my pre-amp box for this amp - I have taken this box apart and put back together at least fifty times, something manages to go wrong about half the time I put it back together again, so i am not overly concerned... yet I managed to mistake + and - on the psu so byebye left channel xo board... Yet Ludo's headphone amp lives and breathes, that takes serious doing. Furthermore it will not go into the pre-amp box anymore, on the off-chance I may build an office hp system for "working" and then I'll need to move it again. I listened past midnight and inbetween making breakfast this morning. The wife got a silly grin when listening to her fav cd... last night - this is a good sign. This morning she started dancing to our opening dance song for the wedding... 8) (note to self this is a good way to make up for staying out of bed till late.)
A note to prospective owners it takes a little while to get up to the great sound, before that it sounds fine, but the music seems just not quite right, I don't know how long, definitely no more than 30 min, but more than 10min. It managed to confirm Ludo's assertion that the pre-amp switching in the technics SU-V8 best be left out of the equation - it also makes, things just not right, rather plug it straight into the GerDAC... then the music sounds right...
