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There is a number of people who asked me if I build Melquiades or if I know anyone who does it. I do not build them for sale and I do not know currently any technician who would offer his services to build Melquiades.

I know some folks who might be interested to have Milq and do not mind to built it but they are distracted by the Melquiades’ complexity and have fear that it might be too difficult for them. The irony is that Melquiades is ridiculously simple amplifier and with a proper approach in building the construction of the amps might be surprisingly painless.

In this thread I will lay down very simple, detailed, illustrative and very non-nonsensical steps and techniques to build Melquiades for the people who have very rudimental amplifier building experience, like me. Following this thread you should be able to make Melquiades as a well, spending 1-2 hours per day. Do not forget – I am very much NOT a person who is in position to provide advises about building electronics. I have as much as many of you very bare-bone skills and knowledge about building electronics. Still, I with all my ignorance and unawareness have successfully make a number of those amps, was able to make them to sound liberatevly good, using no special skills and no professional snobbism but nothing else then a common sense. I see no reasons why you can’t do the same and particularly because the Melquiades’ resulting Sound would make the entire project more then beneficial.

I divided the construction of a full-range Melquiades on the following steps:

1) Planning and ordering parts
2) Building Bais chain
3) Building First state
4) Building Second Stage
5) The amplifier tuning and calibration

It takes 7 days, a week to do everything. Then it takes months to analyze the mistakes and prospective areas of improvement and another 7 days to do it better. The process is recursive. I went over it a number of times and will s-l-o-w-l-y share with you my current view how I would do it as now, trying to keep a balance between quality, productivity, rationality and common sense, as least as I can see it. If some of you have more expertise, experiences or the alternative view in what I will be describing then please do not hesitate to voice your opinion – I like this amp and I’m opened to learn what else might be done with it.

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