Hello all and new to the group.

I am very fortunate to have an old friend of the family starting to teach me in building amps. Walter, my teacher, owner of SAR Labs in Winnipeg. Well known for over 60 years in the audio industry. Designing and hand building all kinds of equipment. Walter’s main signature design are mosfet amps.

The pictures shows my second point to point wiring project, a design of Walter’s. It was fun to design and great to listen too. Still tweaking with tubes and feedback loop in the design. Sorry, I don’t have permission to share his schematic. I probably can’t answer any really technical questions either.

Hope the link works.

https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOalLloleMJGZ_6EfOR-TXI8AmtAg8vA_ptL-bn

Something I had been pondering for a long time, years actually, finally became reality this September. My A10, sounding gorgeous after my Skunkie schematics circuit update, to my eyes looked a little too blingy, with all shiny stainless steel. I wanted that serious botique-build look with wooden sides, like the super expensive japanese ones... A youtube video with a guy making a fixture for a common handheld planer, making it able to precision plane wood, kicked me off. Pao Ferro wood for making guitar fretboards, bought from Aliexpress, became the candidate.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a1DuF9KfeOlhCD1aMYdwQmk1dLDQ5-8L/view?usp=sharing See build on picture below. I am mighty satisfied with the results. Best regards, Magnus

Hi everyone. I bought my 1st tube amplifier ever ( I born in 1963 ) in December 2020, a Reissong A10 directly from China- HiFi ( = A12 but 6N2 driver tubes ). After successfully rebuilding it according to Skunkie´s schematics, I decided to install remote volume control. I bought a remote volume control from Aliexpress, 100k resistance, just like the one in pict below.

It is very crowded and cramped just behind the original volume pot, and the Aliexpress motorized remote pot is rather bulky, so there had to be some engineering work done to install it. I realize this build may not be for everyone, but possibly someone would like to try it out, and then I could give som hints on details of my own installation.

After quite some tinkering, it all worked, and it was really rewarding.

Videos of mechanism in action at google drive:

First time building something from scratch! Loved seeing Stephe building her preamp and I adventured into creating her design. Once it was totally finished it has amazing sound and totally zero hum that the record player doesn't even need grounding. Playing music with my Dual 1229Q with a AT540ML on it. I'm enjoying it so much !! Very excited!!