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Buckeye Amps: New US based Hypex multichannel amplifier builder, line-up announcement!

squared80 said:
Actually, that's the one brand Dylan suggested staying away from for RCA/XLR cables in the past. I guess they can introduce some noise.
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This. Per Monoprice website they still have pin 1 of the XLR connected to sleeve via pin 3, which is not the recommended Hypex configuration. All explained in the Hypex Legacy Pin 1 problem document referenced several times in this thread.
 
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Just wanted to come back here and give Dylan some kudos!

My amp, which has been running almost continually for over a year now in the studio, had a little problem. The "auto sense" feature that turns it on/off with activity stopped working correctly. It wasn't a huge issue as it just required me to turn it on/off manually every time I used it. But I had gotten so used to the convenience of just leaving it on that I was spoiled!

I sent Dylan a note about it, fully expecting to have to pay for a part or something as the unit was just over 2 years old. I had not taken it apart, so I didn't really know what was involved. But I have built a number of power amps myself and am comfortable with such things.

Turns out the circuitry is built into an input board that has the XLR input jacks for every channel on it and runs the length of the chassis. Dylan promptly sent me a new board, arrived in a very quick 2 days!! No Charge.

I have yet to install it as I just received it. But I wanted to come straight here and say what awesome customer service!! You can't ask for any more than that.

If you've been putting off buying a Buckeye Amp for fear of the small company service, fear no more, the service is excellent!
 
gabo4au said:
Just wanted to come back here and give Dylan some kudos!

My amp, which has been running almost continually for over a year now in the studio, had a little problem. The "auto sense" feature that turns it on/off with activity stopped working correctly. It wasn't a huge issue as it just required me to turn it on/off manually every time I used it. But I had gotten so used to the convenience of just leaving it on that I was spoiled!

I sent Dylan a note about it, fully expecting to have to pay for a part or something as the unit was just over 2 years old. I had not taken it apart, so I didn't really know what was involved. But I have built a number of power amps myself and am comfortable with such things.

Turns out the circuitry is built into an input board that has the XLR input jacks for every channel on it and runs the length of the chassis. Dylan promptly sent me a new board, arrived in a very quick 2 days!! No Charge.

I have yet to install it as I just received it. But I wanted to come straight here and say what awesome customer service!! You can't ask for any more than that.

If you've been putting off buying a Buckeye Amp for fear of the small company service, fear no more, the service is excellent!
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great to hear! Mines been used every day for about two years now with no issues whatsoever. I have the smaller one, works great for my dbr62's.
 
So are the Monoprice recommended or not by Dylan? What brand of balanced to unbalanced cable had he previously recommended?
 
dtaylo1066 said:
So are the Monoprice recommended or not by Dylan? What brand of balanced to unbalanced cable had he previously recommended?
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I can tell you Monoprice premier series unbalanced to balanced ones are good but don't know about balanced to unbalanced as I never have need to use those. Buckeye amps usually come with balanced inputs only so I don't know why you need balanced to unbalanced.

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The only issue with Monoprice is it seems there is random variation in their quality/being properly wired. I have had customers report ordering x number at a time and for some reason one of them will not work properly (introduces hum). When they work, they work just fine.
 
Buckeye Amps said:
The only issue with Monoprice is it seems there is random variation in their quality/being properly wired. I have had customers report ordering x number at a time and for some reason one of them will not work properly (introduces hum). When they work, they work just fine.
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I have only used the premier series and never experienced any issues. They show the wiring diagram on their website so I know they are wired correctly. May be their low priced versions have lower quality?

If in doubt, just buy from Amazon so it will be easy to return for full refund if you end up with defective ones.
 
peng said:
I have only used the premier series and never experienced any issues. They show the wiring diagram on their website so I know they are wired correctly. May be their low priced versions have lower quality?

If in doubt, just buy from Amazon so it will be easy to return for full refund if you end up with defective ones.
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It is the premier series that people have run into issues with. Again, very random at times.
 
tmtomh said:
And for folks located in the US, World's Best Cables from Amazon. Silly name but in my experience always properly constructed and good quality.
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World's best cables can be found in Europe on Amazon.
A good and cheap source in the EU is Audiophonics, a Canare XLR/XLR cable is available from around $12 each. Hidden Audio has good and cheap VIABLUE NF-S1 RCA cables from their own production starting at €12 each.

If you often need such cables, it can be worth soldering the cables yourself. The equipment for this is no longer expensive these days and with a little practice you can get the best quality.
 
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Benchmark offers both variants at reasonable prices and likely do NOT vary in quality from “cheapest” batch available that plagues amazon cables.
 
peng said:
If in doubt, just buy from Amazon so it will be easy to return for full refund if you end up with defective ones.
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I'm not a Monoprice shill, but just thought it only fair to mention their return-warranty policy is also first rate.
I had a 50' active optical HDMI cable go bad after a sever lightning strike here. The cable was around 6 months old but within
the warranty time. I didn't say anything about the lightning, only that it quit working. They exchanged it with no questions asked. boom.

Worlds Best Cables are also available on ebay. I prefer to use ebay over Amazon since everyone on ebay accepts PayPal, not so on Amazon.
I had a few bad experiences with Amazon.
YMMV
 
If worlds best is expensive and you are okay with Amazon, try Suanqi brand in the US. I thought they were better/nicer than the monoprice.
 
peng said:
I have only used the premier series and never experienced any issues. They show the wiring diagram on their website so I know they are wired correctly.
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This has been gone over so many times here. Monoprice pinout has never, to my knowledge, ever had a wiring diagram that met the Hypex recommended RCA->XLR pinout:

Monoprice pinout you previously posted:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ilder-line-up-announcement.16835/post-1947872

My followup to following posts:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ilder-line-up-announcement.16835/post-1949706

The Monoprice premier cable diagram is wired exactly per what Hypex says can/may create problems. Of course given the poor history of QC reported here on this cable, maybe the "bad" cables not meeting the diagram are the ones that actually are okay :p .
 
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