Might just be one of the RCA sockets shorting against the caseback.
1 Like
I want a valve amp again.
1 Like
Why, is your heating not working?
1 Like
KEL84 
1 Like
I miss both I stupidly sold…
Trouble is, they do need fairly sensitive speakers, which to have any range end-up being big, and I can’t see homelessness being your gig…
1 Like
Do you though, audio note k and audio innovations 2a3 valve amp at sensible volume is a standard room work very well together
Ks are nice, I like them a lot, and they’d work well with a KEL84, but I’d struggle to describe them as having anything approaching full range.
And these “sensible volumes” of which you speak…? 
Fair point
1 Like
Latest effort is to swap out the juke box drivers I was using for mid and treble for a whizzerless pair of Markaudio Alpair 12P’s. It’s beginning to look a bit more finished.
At the same time I fitted a shelf behind the mid panel to facilitate easier swapping of drivers because I am in process of knocking up a few small cabinets and baffles to test alternative drivers
14 Likes
Looks good. Are you using a digital crossover?
Generally I use one only for the bass signal I do have a miniDSP that I can utilise for mid/treble where I can I try and protect the mid band from being messed with.
2 Likes
That’s the sort of thing that may work for me. I have a pair of Voxativ full range speakers and have bought a pair of 15 bass units to try and take some of the work away from the main speakers. It’ll be an OP design.
Sounds good. There is lots of info about OB on the inter web.
1 Like
I found the Voxativ worked well with 2 15inch bass drivers and a tweeter had a crossover for the bass drivers filltered the top end of the Voxativ and a simple cap on the hot in of tweeter.worked very well tried running the bass drivers through plate amps but liked it best without.All done by ear.
1 Like
I absolutely love the look. I had similar but nowhere near as nice, I used Leben phono and integrated instead of the Luxman, Garrard 301 turntable instead of the Sony, Phasemation PP-2000 (with T-2000 SUTs) etc., but your furnishings, the art work, the colours, the louvered wooden blinds, the living plant, it all blends into a retro view of futurism, Ala “The Jetsons”. I never even came close. Very cool indeed Hermit.
5 Likes
After about 10 months of owning the Mojo, it finally appears to be making sense to me. Splitting the USB signal to optical through a D10 the Mojo with the the new LP headphone amp is a truly wonderful match especially with the DT1990 PRO headphones. I’ve nearly sold the Mojo twice this year, but it’s really sounding very nice.
I still don’t get Mojo as a device with regards to the design as such and I think Chord missed something in not having a Mojo without the battery, using a PSU, and having a proper pair of RCA outputs, surely that could have done for similar money as the actual Mojo, as a portable device it is pretty useless, and it sounds far better using the optical input rather than the USB.It’s a big jump cost wise up to the Qutest.
The G109-S is a real ear opener, at £300 it is quite exceptional, a real wow moment.
9 Likes
The Qutest also sounds better going into the Spdif rather than the USB input.
1 Like
How come you’re using both the Mojo and G109-S - is the Mojo for DAC duty, or you’re just using it to change from USB to optical for the LP amp?
The mojo just sounds better going in to the G109-S.
From my understanding the mojo doesn’t actually have an amp in it, you are listening to the output analogue stage of the FPGA and a couple of my headphones don’t seem to agree with it, shove it through the amp and the sound just opens up more.
I also have a Topping D50s + P50 and I’ve always preferred that to mojo, going through the G109-S is the first time I actually preferred the Mojo. Just a shame the amp hasn’t got two inputs.
1 Like