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Audionote kit5/20/2023 He is rushing a care package to me with the new screws/standoffs, boards, and few other things. Audio Note AN-E/D Celestion SL700 Genesis VI Klipschorn Cabling Kimber Kable AGDL (0.5m, RCA) Kimber Kable Illuminati Orchid (1. Oddly enough one of the boards in my kit was from a 300b amplifier and Brian noticed in this photo. This also lead me to place everything on in the case (and outline it in pencil) so that I knew everything going forward would fit.Īnd it did, albeit, a little differently than the manual. You can see the long standoffs on the right, behind the IEC. After playing around with everything and calling and emailing Brian it turns out that the standoffs used to secure the IEC to the back of the chassis were too long so I could not correctly position the transformers to match the holes. But there was a SLIGHT issue.Ģ of the 4 holes would never align. So comes the ‘easy’ part, just screw the transformers to the chassis. You can tell the manual is a work in progress Just wire in the rear switch, power socket and the two massive main transformers. I stared by building the power input board: it’s simple. I knew that and Brian asked for one thing from me: patience. I dont cotton to something as timeless as a tube amp being combined with something as rapidly changing and prosaic as a DAC. One thing to keep in mind is that I am the very first DIY’er to attempt this build, and this is the first kit. Okay, the first day of building is officially underway!!! I did build a clone of the Audio Note kit 4 (identical cloned PCB), used Hashimoto OPT and still had to make several adjustmens to make it barely acceptable. I will be working pretty closely with Brian on this because the manual is still ‘beta’ – I am literally the first person to get a DIY kit! Well, here we go again folks! Another build and I’m really looking forward to this one. It’s an all hyped up R2R board.Įverything came individually bagged and tagged. The two boxes that were inside the chassis, inside the box… You follow, right? I had a chuckle to myself when I saw this. In the smaller box are all the transformers and chokes and such. The DAC 5 comes in not one but TWO boxes. What? The box isn’t big enough for you? What about this one then: I knew then and there I had to hear it! I am very excited to say that I am the first person to receive the new DAC 5 kit and I look forward to what looks like a challenging but very interesting build! He casually mentioned that he has been cooking a new monster – the DAC 5. I had heard of ANK around here and one day reached out to Brian (the owner of the company) about a DAC 4. Let’s just call a spade a spade – they make good stuff. I have always been an admirer of AudioNote products. The range of DAC kits does just that starting with ANK DAC. We also stock the full range of Audio Note drive units, for more information on these please click HERE. The aim at ANK kits is to provide hi-end audiophile performance at prices most people can afford. They utilise the finest components including Audio Note (UK) tantalum resistors, a mix of Cerafine. Audio Note UK Speaker kits (not to be confused with ANK in Canada) focus on speaker kits based on their range of superb AN-E loudspeakers. The kit1 is the classic single Ended 300B zero feedback design but with a few interesting design strategies. DIY HiFi Supply Parts and Kits from Diy HiFi Supply.
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