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pigdog wrote:i am using a GOMES which was a predecessor to the aikido and am also familair with the aikido as SNZ is using one himself
i like this preamp as it has plenty of dynamics. and for the money it is well worth it. you can buy the kit from DIY Hongkong and Rene can put it together for you,
my aikido-gomes was slightly modded to take 6sn7 on the output as i have a considerable stash of 6sn7s
you cant go wrong with this!
jopet wrote::clap:
rene,
if you have aikido preamp, let me know, am interested ....
thanks
joel
Squirrelnutzipper wrote:jopet wrote::clap:
rene,
if you have aikido preamp, let me know, am interested ....
thanks
joel
Jopet,
If you are interested in an Aikido linestage, my advice would be to have Rene build you one. There is a wide range of tube choices and combinations, including octal, noval and even loktal that you could use. Some of these tubes are as cheap as chips and identical to the expensive and more common equivalents, like one tenth the price! The gain is adjustable through choice of the input tube, the gain being roughly half of the mu of the input tube. Rene is also building an Aikido linestage for me using some intersting 6sn7 variants. If I were you and with all deference to my pigdog buddy, I would forego the DIYHIFI route and have Rene build a point to point unit for you. You could choose better parts quality, choose the gain you need for your system and the cost will be considerably less than bringing in the DIYHIFI kit. Besides, the overall build quality will be far better and you will be able to have Rene stand behind his work, which is IMHO top notch.
The phono and linestage should be finished soon and you are more than welcome to borrow it to audition in your system to see what you think. I suspect you won't be disappointed!
pigdog wrote:good point about having a preamp made by hypertriode and you can have more options to choose better componenets. point to point is definitely a big yes for me!
arnoldc wrote:Dana, you're asking Rene to do something taboo... C'mon, PCB? Just kidding...
While I still confess that point-to-point is still for the big boys ('di ba Rene ) there are situations when PCB is the way to go. Specially in terms of noise.pigdog wrote:good point about having a preamp made by hypertriode and you can have more options to choose better componenets. point to point is definitely a big yes for me!
I don't really care if it's P2P or PCB as long as it get's the job done.
arnoldc wrote:I don't really care if it's P2P or PCB as long as it get's the job done.
arnoldc wrote:While I still confess that point-to-point is still for the big boys ('di ba Rene ) there are situations when PCB is the way to go. Specially in terms of noise.
Squirrelnutzipper wrote:Arnold, sometimes you just have to push the envelope. I was surprised that Rene actually wanted to do this project, with a pcb, but for sure it is the way to go with so much stuff to hook together. He will still point to point the Aikido linestages, but they are so much simpler than this phono stage. For mere mortals, or sub-humans like me, I appreciate the goof proof nature of pcbs. I can leave the complex p to ps to Rene!
SNZ, what could be more complex than the Hurricanes we P2P'ed?!
john bronski's brainchild was all over the net getting rave reviews, we had to do it!
now i'm excited as you are for the results bro!
arnoldc wrote:Looking good!
hypertriode wrote:arnoldc wrote:Looking good!
thanks buddy! haven't really heard an aikido yet; i'm sure they'd sound good!
camotecue wrote:hypertriode wrote:arnoldc wrote:Looking good!
thanks buddy! haven't really heard an aikido yet; i'm sure they'd sound good!
superb workmanship from hypertriode!
i think jojod from the other forum made several aikido preamps. they swear the aikido circuit sounds good.
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