Author Archives: Jens

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Any audio circuit designer who is trained to listen critically and bothers to try may observe that electrolytic capacitors from different manufacturer’s series will sound different in the same application. Yes, we are comparing caps of the same value, voltage … Continue reading →

Just add water… This is a trick John Klett taught me for testing power supplies and power amps under load. Instead of using a bulky, expensive power resistor and having it get really hot, you just put a regular 1/4W … Continue reading →

We received fifty of these chassis today for NLA product. It appears Sansak and I made no mistakes in the drawings, and neither did our excellent fabricator in interpreting them. Hooray!

Here’s what my bench is looking like this week. You’ll notice the NLA FT development PCB I talked about drawing is now tangible and stuffed full of components. It looks like a mess (you don’t want to see the rats … Continue reading →

Emmitt said we need to mount all of our transformers for the NLA product on a pair of interior bulkheads, but he didn’t say which transformers, before disappearing again. Sansak suggested best to play it safe and put them all … Continue reading →

I’ve been working at EXILE since 2005 and taking photos the whole time. Now I’ve finally gotten around to organizing these photos, and will be posting albums in the photos page of eisenaudio.com.

Just finished drawing the development PCB for an upcoming NLA product. We’ll use this to optimize all the building blocks individually, and then experiment with chaining them together. Eventually we’ll work out the useful permutations and reduce the result into … Continue reading →