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    Anyone heard a gainclone? Thinking about buying a kit and building one.

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    You're free to borrow my rawson gainclone if you like. I will actually be putting it up for sale soon. I would steer you towards either chipamp or audiosector for kits, especially the chipamp lm1875. I can't make any general comments about gainclones since, like all things, implementation wiill change the sound characteristics significantly.

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      Originally posted by dweekie
      You're free to borrow my rawson gainclone if you like. I will actually be putting it up for sale soon. I would steer you towards either chipamp or audiosector for kits, especially the chipamp lm1875. I can't make any general comments about gainclones since, like all things, implementation wiill change the sound characteristics significantly.
      You have a PM.

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      • #4
        Agree strongly with Dweekie. I've had 2 Gainclones, both LM3886-based. One had great soundstage, was fairly fast and "snappy," but had a slight limitation on bass impact.

        The other was better in the bass, kept the snappy/dynamic sound, but was a little more compressed in staging.

        The main difference was the caps used, and the first one had 4 small transformers (2 each channel), for a near dual-mono implementation. The second had a single large torroidal transformer.

        So even with the same chipsets, implementations can indeed sound a bit different.
        What if the Hokey-Pokey really IS what it's all about?!

        Kinky Tom!

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