School is in session

Berndt · « **on:** 13 Jan 2008, 04:23 pm »

The Randall museum class kicked off yesterday with a full house.
The pre looks like a winner too. If they put pictures of the finished product on the course description they would have a full house every round.
Great to meet you Kurt, I believe you had some of your friends there as well.
We will get pictures up, so this is not a complete waste of time for lurkers.

Berndt · « **Reply #1 on:** 17 Jan 2008, 04:44 am »

Berndt · « **Reply #2 on:** 17 Jan 2008, 04:45 am »

better pics and more info coming...

kurtbauer · « **Reply #3 on:** 17 Jan 2008, 06:21 am »

Yeah, baby! I'm really excited about the class. It's gonna be fun.

It was nice to meet you too, Bill.

Don't study too much this week.

KB

Berndt · « **Reply #4 on:** 17 Jan 2008, 02:42 pm »

Kurt, I started rsearching those TFK ef806s's.
Not a cheap nos tube, but the service life is very promising.
Looking forward to comparing the pre with my Exemplar exception II....

kurtbauer · « **Reply #5 on:** 30 Jan 2008, 07:04 am »

Finished wiring PS this past weekend w/o power trafo - still painting. Don't expect too much.

Bummed to miss this Sat.

See you next weekend though.

KB

Berndt · « **Reply #6 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 01:08 am »

Just got the exemplar and it will be a tough act to beat...
I thought this Saturday was a toss because of the tube audio club meeting?
I am so excited, I feel like I finally made the leap to being able to make pro looking solder joints, that chisel tip is awesome.

Berndt · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 Feb 2008, 07:38 pm »

My preamp is finished and out of the box it sounds good.
The exemplar still has better inner detail and soundstaging but the Randall pre has a lot of new caps and some hohum sovtek tubes.
We'll give it some time to become more coherent.
I have to post a better picture, the copper plate I made for the top plate really dresses it up, IMHO.
Bill