About ten years ago i listened several times to a audio kondo Baransu and i realised this is the amp i want.
I could not affort it so i took pictures and copied the schematic.
I used very good components, audio note resistors, tango opt and jensen copper foil.
After comparing with the original kondo baransu my amp was just mediocre.
If you go to a restaurant there is a good recipe(schematic), good ingredients(components) and a master chef.
(Kondo)
I mist duplicate the chef.
That was a treat but after ten years i found out how he did it.
The most important thing about building an amp is to know the chef🤗
The Baransu used silver wired output transformers, silver foil coupling capacitors and possibly silver wired choke coil. Plus other unobtanium parts such as Shinkoh resistors and Black Gate Heart of Muse HT caps.
The OP used copper wired output transformers and copper foil coupling caps, so he actually made a copy of a Shinri, which was the copper version of the same circuit.
They can both be lovely in the right system, and ideally would be used with Kondo preamps and phonos to get the full effect.
I have a vintage Meishu phono which looks like an M7 valve / pared down Shinri combo to me. What speakers would you recommend with the Shinri?. At the moment I am using ls5/9’s which Kondo recommend for use with their el34 push pull amps.
Meishu is an Audio Note UK amp, designed by Claus Molgaard when he was at AN. It’s a nice design with ECC83+ECC88 phono stage, 6SN7 line stage, and 5689 into SE 300B power amp.
The design of the audio circuit and power supplies owe little to Audio Note Japan and Kondo San unfortunately, but it does have three separate HT power supplies, two of which are choke input, which is good, as far as I am concerned.
Speakers for high output impedance, low damping factor, single ended triode power amps, generally require high sensitivity, and a very even impedance curve through the midrange crossover between bass/mid and tweeter. From my experience I would suggest old Snell K or J, Heco Direkt 2-way, and Living Voice Auditorium speakers. Other seem to like Devore Fidelity and Audio Note UK or Zu Audio speakers.
