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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. -
You have a PM.Originally posted by dweekieComment
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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.Comment
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