Designed by Serge Schmidlin, a
school-friend and owner of the swiss company Audio Consulting.
This amp uses widely Silver Rock transformers (silver windings) and Kristall Cap
(paper-in-oil) capacitors, all components sold by Audio Consulting.
The volume pot is also a Silver Rock, a silver transformer with 24 secondaries in a geometric progression.
Bias is obtained with batteries bypassed by paper-in-oil caps.
Loudspeakers cables are also made of silver but are pretty thin reducing the skin effect.
I hope to show you some photographs of this monster pretty soon, as it uses a construction style more common in loudspeakers enclosures than amps: wood double-walls filled with sand and internally screened with copper foils ...
It uses a switching supply. Well, this one has nothing to do with the usual low-cost models and the results are pretty impressive, so, that shouldn't be a bad technique at all !
