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In the Thread: Melquiades (D-Set) parts list

Post Subject: The value of parts lists.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/19/2011

I do not exactly comfortable with oxric’s preoccupation with “parts”. Yes, there are some amps that invest a lot of attention into parts quality – the silver winding in Kondo, oil caps in BAT, of silver foil caps in AN might be the examples. Melquiades is not such an amp and there is no die or live demands for Milq parts. The core of Melquiades is topological, the parts do server important role, like in any other amp but rather are given for an illustration of topological preferences. Any more or less familiar with the subject person would understand the message. There is nothing wrong with the selection of the parts that I provided; in fact I personal feel that they were the right parts at that time. So, with the parts that enumerated it will be no errors on parts side but still, each builder might have own preferences. Somebody else preferences are fine but I did not heard Melquiades built with somebody else preferences. So, the modifications in parts you made are purely the subject of your own risk. Sing it I have to admit that there is HUGE variety of the parts that might be used and I am sure the result shall not be compromised.

I think that “parts list” has no value for most of the people. People who are familiar with basic amplifier construction has own suppliers and own preferences. Reading the Melquiades schematic they can easy re-interpret Melquiades to the parts that they are accustom and the do know what is important in Melquiades and what is irrelevant. In my view Rakesh treats the parts list with almost some semi-cult attitude and I feel it is wrong.

Melq is a simple amp and I pretty much the only “part” that needs to be considered as a “cult” is output transformer, the better transformer you get the better final result will be. In case of DSET configuration – it is more complex and I would not advise to think about DSET until you know the very precise power, bandwidth and loading requirement.

The caT

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