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In Reply to: Allen Wright's Pre-Amps posted by ronace on October 24, 2001 at 10:04:47:
Ronace,I have built the FVP5 (linestage part only) am very satisfied with it. Very quiet linestage. You can buy the swuperreg as a kit from Allen or one of his distributors.
Regards,
Joe LG
Follow Ups:
Did you build the line stage from scratch or did you buy the FVP5 as a kit. Allen sells the FVP5A kits at a cost of $975 for the pair. It seems to me I could build this a lot cheaper. Do you agree?
ronace
Ronace,I built it myself from scratch. It is more challenging than building it from a kit. The total cost for the whole linestage is around USD 850.00. The parts I used include Hovland for the output coupling caps, Elna Cerafine for the power supply, Tango choke for the power supply Holco for the audio circuit, DACT attenuator for volume control etc. For the shunt regulator, I bought his kit from a local supplier. My implmentation is a 2 chassis thing with the power supply separate from the audio circuit.
I live in Malaysia so some things may be cheaper (e.g. fabrication of chassis) while other parts are more expensive.
Regards,
Joe LG
Have you seen the VSE kits though? Hard to improve upon the build quality at any price, they are built like a brick shithouse. Hammer nails with 'em.Sound pretty good too, of course.
Hi gang,
I'm not a regular here but someone told me you were discussing me - so that's why my ears were burning!Sure you can build my designs cheaper than I sell the kits - I'm in business and have to keep alive, so my products have tohave regular commercial margins built in. Otherwise I'd have to do something else to keep alive and keep all my ideas to myself.
Regarding the FVP5A design, the schematic comes with all new copies of the TubePreamp CookBook and can also be found on our website
. It's been recently been with two of the TNT.com reviewers and they should be publishing it soon - they said I will not be unhappy with the review!
Allen (Vacuum State Electronics)
I tried out www.vacuumstate.com without sucsess.
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