The Chassis

Many asked me where I bought the chassis. Actually I bought it from here. Despite the relatively high price, their service is really first class. I am really impressed and I have written a review on their page.

Here are some more photos:

Surround Amp

This will serve as the amplifier for the surround section. The appearance of the amps rivals the very best high end products available in market and so is the sound! each channel can deliver 180W into 4 ohms or 90W into 8 ohms. This is more than enough for surround speakers. I can now decide on whether to use 8 channels full range or 4 channels 2 ways for my home theatre system.

I have recently come across 2 interesting words in surround sound that may change the way music is reproduced at home: Ambiophonic & Ambisonic.

Do some search on the internet and get to know more!

Progress

After a few months of hard work, The final product has come into shape.


Here is the internal arrangement



Have a look at the back panel also.

First Step

Slowly, I am moving from stereo to building a home theatre system and the first step is a good amplifier system. Since I am using digital crossover system, I need lots of amps. With the advance of modern technology, I came across a new design that gives high end sound quality in a small size. The UCD series.

These little amps can output to 700W! And the sound quality is excellent. It is an overkill for the surround system. But I am using Ucd180 only which delivers 180W into 4 ohms and the efficiency is over 90%!



In order to deliver this large amount of energy, one would need a hugh transformer. But then again, with the latest technology, I came across SMPS from Coldamp. This little best can deliver 800W of power in a very light weight.



Here are some of the comments from those who used this PSU


Here is my testing report for the SMPS