Gainclone

[shadowlight]

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

[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.

[shadowlight]

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.

[skullguise]

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.