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simon
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Like Ed my first project was a pair of speakers, Fostex 208e sigma horns, the old webpage is still up... http://www.atrj13.dsl.pipex.com/na-fost ... r_horn.htm I built them at the beginning of 2003 and I'm still using them in the lounge now. The rubber plant is long gone, and so is the house for that matter.

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My first valve project was a WAD PHONO II and PSU II, I'd guess in 2003 or 2004, but my first "proper" build was also a Bluebell Audio Loftin White 2A3 in early 2005. http://www.atrj13.dsl.pipex.com/na-LW.htm I'm still using the same chassis but with a different 2A3 amp - Nick's D3a-2A3 with GZ37 and largely AE iron. It's playing as I type :-D.

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And my first build that was all my own design/all my own fault is Madness 26-10Y-300B which started out as a separate 26 pre and ran to 5 breadboards, must have been late 2008/early 2009. Four and a half years on and it's still nowhere near finished and it's shortly to morph in to Insanity with lots of shunt reg, but that's another story for another day. The photos in the webpage don't work now (mutter, mutter, bloody Photobucket, mutter, mutter) but here's a photo from its first public appearance at Simon C's birthday bash in March 2009. Mine are the ones not in nice boxes...

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