Hi,
My name is Miguel and I live in the Atlantic shores of Sintra, Portugal.
Sintra was named Mons Lunae (the sacred mount of the moon) during roman times, and me...having dug quite a bit of roman relics myself (and being a bit of a local history buff), decided to create the "Lunae Mons Research" humorous brand...where I design and build analog wanna-be masterpieces for my own use, without the shackles of commercial restraints
Here are a few works of mine:
A Kondo Ongaku inspired SET amplifier (my main amplifier at the moment):
and another one: with a similar design philosophy but employing EL34s in UL mode: I called it "St. John the baptist", aka "Bota-Fogo", a famous portuguese galleon which was part of the joint coalition christian army which took Tunis from the Ottoman pirate "Red Beard"/"Barbarossa". You can't see it from this picture but the shiny RCAs lined up in the left side make it look like a galleon's hull.
most recently I've been working on my phono stage (still a work in progress), which is a variation of Andrea Ciuffoli 's brilliant high end c3g phono, but my version deviates mainly in the power supply, which is separated from the preamp in another chassis and also employs valve rectification instead of the SS rectification bridge of the original design. I called it the "Oceanic Phono" as the valves it employs were originally made to be used by the german post company in the oceanic telephone repeaters which powered intercontinental phone calls. here's how it looks right now (that center piece's recession will hold a brass plate logo...which I still have to design):
My name is Miguel and I live in the Atlantic shores of Sintra, Portugal.
Sintra was named Mons Lunae (the sacred mount of the moon) during roman times, and me...having dug quite a bit of roman relics myself (and being a bit of a local history buff), decided to create the "Lunae Mons Research" humorous brand...where I design and build analog wanna-be masterpieces for my own use, without the shackles of commercial restraints
Here are a few works of mine:
A Kondo Ongaku inspired SET amplifier (my main amplifier at the moment):
and another one: with a similar design philosophy but employing EL34s in UL mode: I called it "St. John the baptist", aka "Bota-Fogo", a famous portuguese galleon which was part of the joint coalition christian army which took Tunis from the Ottoman pirate "Red Beard"/"Barbarossa". You can't see it from this picture but the shiny RCAs lined up in the left side make it look like a galleon's hull.
most recently I've been working on my phono stage (still a work in progress), which is a variation of Andrea Ciuffoli 's brilliant high end c3g phono, but my version deviates mainly in the power supply, which is separated from the preamp in another chassis and also employs valve rectification instead of the SS rectification bridge of the original design. I called it the "Oceanic Phono" as the valves it employs were originally made to be used by the german post company in the oceanic telephone repeaters which powered intercontinental phone calls. here's how it looks right now (that center piece's recession will hold a brass plate logo...which I still have to design):
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