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RE: Eric Barbour's Brute force regulator mods

If you would be interested in a shunt regulated supply instead of series regulation and are not SS phobic K&K Audio sells a kit that consists of a CCS and shunt reg. on one board. I did the beta testing for this and use it for the input and driver stages of my mono-blocks (122V & 434V). If you are using it with a single-ended stage the shunt current should approximately equal the current draw of the circuit so the heat sink on the shunt devise should be appropriately sized. The CCS needs to see ~50V across it, so dropping the raw voltage down to 350V with RC filter first is a very good idea. Shunt reg. the input and driver stages of my amps greatly improved their sonic presentation.


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