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I've been planning this one for a while since I knew I had time off coming up, which really worked out because half of the stuff is out of stock now. It's the Metro 100W MV kit from ValveStorm and I'm having a headshell built by Sourmash with the extra rounded corners on the front cutout, but that hasn't made it here yet since I left it a bit late. The transformers are Heyboer from AmpPartsDirect. I actually started last week so I'm done a bunch of it, but here are some progress pics anyway. The full album is here if anyone's interested and I'll be adding photos as I go: https://imgur.com/a/W4GLG8d

Sensual

Very tidy! Keep those pics coming...

Damn!! Looking good!!! Are you going to keep it stock or hot-rod it a bit?

And I can attest to the quality of the Sourmash headshells, that's what I had on my Ceriatone 2204 (which was actually a kit that guys at SM put together).

GuitarBilly wrote:Damn!! Looking good!!! Are you going to keep it stock or hot-rod it a bit?

And I can attest to the quality of the Sourmash headshells, that's what I had on my Ceriatone 2204 (which was actually a kit that guys at SM put together).

No plans yet, but I'm sure I'll play with it a bit once I have it up and running. Not really hotrodding, but I do plan on switching to 6550s at some point.

Oh yeah, I also picked up a used HotMod recently so that'll hopefully satisfy any hotrodding itch at least short term

The chassis wiring is pretty much done and I've installed the bus wire on the board. The instructions are missing the page with the ~30 board-to-chassis wire lengths so I'm spending some time figuring those all out to post on the Metro forum for anyone who builds this in the future.

I've got the board wired and in the chassis now, with the preamp sockets hooked up. I have to take a break for a few days so I'll be finishing next week. The headshell is scheduled to be delivered next week so it'll be right on time!

Hopefully done wiring! I had to cut the testing short last night, but so far everything is all good. I'm just scared to screw up drilling the headshell now.

Again, looking tidy AF man. Good luck on the headshell!

Damn that is gorgeous. Great work!

All the voltages are as expected except for V3, where they're way too high. Pin 1 and 6 seem reasonable based on other voltages that I'm measuring, but 2/3/7/8 seem totally off. I've tried swapping the tube and it made no difference. Not sure what's going on here...

Measured (Expected):
Pin 1 - 276 (218)
Pin 2 - 98 (28)
Pin 3 - 151 (42)
Pin 6 - 270 (214)
Pin 7 - 105 (28)
Pin 8 - 151 (42)

Very nice

damn that's coming together really nicely....

Someone on another forum pointed out that I got the colours backward and mistakenly hooked up a 270K resistor to the presence pot instead of a 4.7K one (red-violet-yellow instead of yellow-violet-red). After swapping that, the readings are good and I'll hopefully get a chance to play tomorrow!

It's alive! Here's a quick boosted clip while I put off drilling the headshell.

Fuck yeah man, sounds mean as hell! You gotta be stoked.

Fuck yea

I realized that I never posted the final result - here we are:

Good stuff - looks and sounds great!

Fantastic job!

Way to bring the action!

That looks fantastic.

Man the amp looks and sounds great!! Amazing job!!

That is definitely unreal. Beautiful work!