Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono

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Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono
« on: 17 Sep 2009, 01:10 am »
Here is the latest BellaMax that is getting ready to head out to it's nnew home. This was a tight one. There are three individual power supplies with two transformers each.

The front panel is 1" Macassar Ebony.

It is currently on the bench going through some final testing.




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Re: Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono
« Reply #1 on: 17 Sep 2009, 01:25 am »
Incredibly beautiful work, Bill !

I love the wood cabinets you are making - they make audio equipment look much less industrial.   8)

Congratulations !

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Re: Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono
« Reply #2 on: 17 Sep 2009, 01:51 am »
Thank you Bill C. The custom wood chassis have been doing very well.

 This unit has an HT bypass switch as well as the "PhonoMax" phono stage in it which means it too has the full poly power supply rather than electrlytic filter capacitors. The power supply takes up one third of the chassis.

Pete is the one that came up with the design and wood options. I think it came out very well. I am burning in the phono stage now in the background with a Granite Phono Burn disc listening to track #24 'Mozart's Piano Concerto #26'

 It also has a remote shunt volume control built from the units that were available from Welborne Labs rather than a basic Alps. We had to stop using them as we never heard back from them again after trying to place additional orders :scratch:

 Down the road, I plan on building another Waterfall Bubinga unit to offer for sale. It will use the new one piece design like the unit below that is done in Japanese Tamo Ash


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Re: Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono
« Reply #3 on: 21 Sep 2009, 10:32 pm »
Wow, very nice!
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Re: Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono
« Reply #4 on: 23 Sep 2009, 03:32 pm »
as always... stunning Bill!!!

were do you get your veneer? local?

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Re: Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono
« Reply #5 on: 23 Sep 2009, 04:03 pm »
Thanks for the kind words guys.

 As far as veneer goes, I have a supplier that contacts me every time he gets something unique in that he thinks I would like.

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Re: Pete's Custom Ebony Musica Bella BellaMax w/phono
« Reply #6 on: 3 Oct 2009, 04:00 pm »
 Well, Pete's preamp is done, tested and ready to be packed up to go out Monday. Here are a few pictures of the final unit.