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Hi Dima,Yep, I really think that I get this one right: I never take the time to do any research about it until your posting came. Luckily, I got the clues in less than 15 minutes. If only other things can be like that...About VR tubes stability, now:...
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My mind turned back recently to the subject of tube tuners – there were some even that made it happen. I have to admit that I have general difficulties with tube tuners. My past experience with then was not so great.
When we are talking abou...
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I do not have a lot of equipment that uses vacuum tubes I have a phonostage and power amp that are tube based. The phonostage used 12AX7 that in there from 1999 and I think they will survive me. The power amp use gas tube 0A2, the output triodes 6C33...
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[quote user="peter foster"] By "dynamic viscosity" do you mean the reluctance of an amplifier to be dynamic, i.e., the degree to which an amplifier sounds like it is bogged down, usually as a result of a poor rise time on transients, i.e., poor HF re...
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[quote user="KOTriode"] Thank you for the comment on this amp, this is my first time of using the 6C33C tube, I decided to build this amp after reading about the Melquiades, this amp is just a quick experiment on the 6C33C sound, since I have a s...
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[quote user="KOTriode"]Romy, in the contrary, it is very unfair to compare my 845 amp with the 6C33C. The main reason is the 845 amp used the best output/interstage transformer available, while the 6C33C's output xformer is pretty good but far from b...
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Having listened for a while with the tubes, I have come to some conclusions. The three tubes I have seriously listened to are: Kron, Sophia, and Emission Labs. All the tubes are much better than any other modern 2A3 tubes I have tried. I felt my in...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night I was listening Zubin Mehta’s recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No.9. It was his first recoding from 1966 with Vienna. I am not a big fun of this performance all together but it has spectacular first movement...
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The 6C33C preamp? Hm, this is bold. As I see you use it as a single stage buffer with only one 6C33C and couple output with a transformer? I head the Germans built something like this but I never heard it or saw it. I do not feel a need for such ...
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[quote user="peter foster"] My understanding had been that biasing method is a method of setting up a given tube so it works with the wanted anode current at idle with the wanted anode voltage and these conditions are met by somehow applying a correc...
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[quote user="muddasir"]Thanks paul for well thought reply. Two things need clarifiication, i am not new to the subject and am a constant and avid reader.Secondly my preference for music is hobby for electronics and pleasure of listening through appli...
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Hi Romy,Your the first person that I have seen that seems to have actually made PP tube amps work with compression horn drivers. It has been my experience that PP amps don't like the low watt operating range. I supose it all is a matter o...
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Paul, another my spin a little off the subject but since it has to do with your current dealing with ML2 I would express it here.
Since you use some tube gear then why you agree to be a slave of random circumstances? Tubes have problems – they go o...
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Well, Nerone, the differences between any tuners would greatly vary with signal, not even with the strength of signal but rather with the specific location and surrounding of a given station. To make the things conceptually right it wou...
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Hickok Model 600/600A/800/800A/533 Tube Tester Quick Reference Instructions by Daniel Schoo from Illinois.
AC LINE ADJUST: Push P7 and adjust the AC line control until the meter pointer is at the LINE mark at the center of the meter...
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Since I know about a few ongoing attempts out there by different people to build Melquiades I would like to share with some of my observations regarding corrections, simplification and possible modifications of Melquiades amplifier.
Obviously you ha...
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I think you'll have trouble adding a copper sleeve to the power tube. The thermal coefficient of expansion for copper is probably much greater than that of the glass used. Hence, the copper will enlarge much faster and break the glass.&nb...
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I realised this morning that I have done a "not-so-standard" thing in using leftover fibreglass batts for stuffing the tubes. The batts that I have on hand are high density batts, not the low density type of fibreglass that is usually used for stuff...
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[quote]I really do not understand what conclusion you make by shutting the tube down.[/quote]I make no conclusion. It's just an interesting thing to watch. A good experiment. I was hoping it would be a clue for everyone here.Since t...
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Jim, I have sent you the tubes – it might be an interesting journey.
I send you:
1) 6C33C that was working with both cathodes approximately a year. It is not dead year but it is deep into retirement age. Run it at 220V and 200-250mA full-tube,...
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I remember when I built Melquiades I detected that quietly of wire that feeds the grid of output stage with bias, quality of soldering or any other minute detail on this wire was very auditable. I also detected that the proximity of this wire t...
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Adrian, Thanks for a most interesting post. I can't fully respond to this as I don't have the new tube brands you have. I posted earlier regarding my personal findings with the EML 45 solid-plate versus NOS however. Ultimately I found that...
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I ordered today from them the 6C33C dumpers and spoke with someone in there. Forthrightly speaking it sounded kind of ugly when the guy on the phone insisted to call the pads as the “anti-vibration instruments”. BTW, I did ask him directly if there i...
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Ok, here's some calibrated sweeps. I ran the tetrodes in triode mode, with G2 strapped to plate through a 100 ohm resistor. First up is the western 6e6p.[img]http://www.hagtech.com/blog/images/6e6p.jpg[/img]I then built an adapter card th...
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I was rummaging through a pile of tubes and came across a pair of 8233. Medium size tube, gold pins, PQ. I think it might have been a video output tube for an old Tek scope. So I looked it up on Duncanamps. 10W plate dissipati...
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As you may know the 7788 is a high transconductance pentode which should in theory be able to give higher audio resolution than say 12AX7, 6072 tubes in tube mic pre designs. On search here the 7788 was mentioned as being used as the ...
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Interesting. I think that with testing just for:
- gain - bias - distortion - power output - hum level balance
It is not necessary give an objective picture about resources of a tube. We can monitor the change rate in the tube bias as some ...
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[quote user="N-set"]BTW, how stable 6E5P is? I'm asking as I was contemplating biasing the output by the voltage drop on 6E5P's plate choke (DCR is say around 1k),with only some minimal autobias on the output. The drawback is that any drift in th...
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First of all, this not an attack on NOS tubes and it is all meant to be just sort of fun and educational. I happened to have all these 2A3 tubes side by side for comparison, so why not? I also have done the same thing with other tube types like 6SN...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
How difficult is it to find 437As good enough for a phonostage? For commercial applications is it a dead tube. WE might produce it again when they stated to redo the tubes but the existence of the Russian 6C45P pretty mu...
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