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Hey Cat,Well..my first question would be regarding the application. The big Melq tube is already doing the bass towers...is it not enough current? And wouldn't a proper class A 100w amp with its low low efficiency require something like 1...
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To crack the small-pin tubes by jerking them in tube-sockets? I do not believe in it but you are at your full right to feel that you did it. If you cracked 6AK5 then it will very fast (a few hours) loose the getter on the top of the tube (dark-s...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Actually a N.O.S. EC-8020 "diamond" is worth EUR 500+ ea., an STC 3A7167M is fetching EUR 750+ ea. (I own one N.O.S. sampler with original carton box, bought by chance for cheap, years ago) and WE 437A is at "only" EUR ...
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[quote user="miab"]I'm about to place an order for some 12AX7 tubes. The GA 12ax7 tube you mention doesn't seem to come up in my search. Is there other info regarding this tube?[/quote]I am not sure but it is possible that General Electric never ...
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Romy,The normal bias for the Golden Grid tube for 200V Plate at 200ma is about 70V-80V for the good tubes, the bad tube read 0ma at this bias, when drop to -30V it start reading some current, but can't get to 150-200ma current for the SE amplifier.Th...
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Wow! I did not realized that almost 4 months have passed since I wrote last.
Quite a few things have happened the last 4 months that I have played with the 6C33Camp/preamp combo. I have tried at least 3 different vendors on the Ulyanovsk type, the ...
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Many thanks, Romy; I was careful to put the old tube to one side, but it may be the new tube I put in was a defective one. I will explore with the tube from the other channel, which I know is fine. ...
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Romy,
I ran the tube conservatively at 40W, because it is still breaking in, and I do not want to push it too much power to damage it (then I will have to break-in a new tube all over again). This amp can give max power at 20.35W (12.76Vrms into 8 ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Did anyone ever see the ready to do tube sockets adapaters that would let to pit the large gas tubes ingot the small sockets? Melquiades use 7-pin small 0A2 tubes but I would like to try the 0D3. They are the same 150V tube...
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[quote user="cat"]Will your tracer be able to pump 250-300mA at 230V? Will it be able to supple up to 100-110V of bias?[/quote]Not quite. I designed it for preamp tubes. But then I realized I could push it to cover a lot of the more popul...
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[quote user="hagtech"] Please do. I have interest in the result myself and don't mind spending the time. I can post photos for each tube. [/quote]
Sure, let do it. Email me your address and I will send them to you. (Do you have sockets?)...
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Carlosb, I do not remember. It should be written in my
tester but… I need to find the tester. I do remember that I after I spend a
hell of time to figure out how to test the tube with TV2 it I never actually
used my finding and never tested 6C33 w...
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[quote user="DHT4ME"]Romy if you feel that you are not loading the tubes enough put a 16ohm power resistor in parallel w the S2. this will cut the load line in half. It should be less wiry and stronger more weighty sound. Obviously you might experime...
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Romy, Some very good points here... if I downloaded the correct schematic from your site for the 6-channel Melq amp (also has the term DSET in the title) then you have created a 6-channel SET amp with built-in crossover points. Your first ...
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Hi Jack , it's very interesting ! [quote user="Jack 14"]When I was younger -35 years ago-, I have observed the glowing of a NEW VR tube (it was a 0C2) for few hours (ok, I had nothing more interesting to do then..) and seen that at low currents,...
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The “Enjoy His Music” published the old celebrated by many DIYers Herb Reichert’s article about his 300B amp ideas.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0709/flesh_blood.htm
I read it before but reading it now, after a few years again...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Yes Roman... I feel pretty like I entered a sort of "cul de sac", tube-wise... I contacted, few months ago, Western Electric USA and they told me that, at USD 750 ea. they have "plenty" of N.O.S. WE 437A... I've been ab...
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Reading at my site Paul’s narrative about his fight with ML2’s tube and the ML2’s tube sockets I need to confess that I always was suspecting that he is some kind of odd wacko with bizarre and sick approach to the subject of amplifier tubing. Too muc...
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Sine I informed public about Melquiades amplifiers I receive many emails from people asking me about the operation points of 6C33C. For whatever reasons people mistakably took me for some kind of 6C33C guru, which is am not. Moreover I could be hardl...
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OK, the amp is running for the 6C41C for a few days and it looks like the tube should be burned-in sufficiently enough for now. Still I have to note that the sound of 6C41C was not changed since my initial listening of this tube.
Originally I drove ...
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[quote user="hagtech"] Stepping back a moment, I'm guessing this tube is designed for radar operation. Maybe in an aircraft. The spec sheet definately talks only about pulse mode of operation. Maybe it was a driver for a pulse radar...
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The value/type of the capacitor after the gas tube hugely affects sound. I made quite a number of experiments in past with those caps and I have no idea why it is so. Well, I hardly understand (and I did not see anyone who does) why the “gassed resis...
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It is sucks to live with Russians Tubes. It is particular sucks to live with 6C33C. They are all deferent when they new, they age very ungracefully and differently.
The life with Super Melquiades, where I use 6x6C33C driving individual channe...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
It look like the project progress well. I have a little concern
about heat the will be building up in your PS enclosure. I do not know what
kind ventilation hole you have in there but be advised that it will be quite
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[quote user="drdna"]As I had been looking at all these tubes I began to also inspect their interior construction. This will amuse you: one thing I would do is to hold the tube right up to my ear so the glass would be touching and thus mostly damped. ...
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For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations. It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to accomplish. I want to reinstat...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I never had a lot of trouble with high transconductance tubes. I use the EC8020 a lot. Stefano, you might look into this EC8020. I never seen it but just looked into the datasheet and it looks very interesting tube and i...
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Paul,
The idea of the not threaded forum is good that it is always there is opportunity to go back to all there and update own views, or to extend them. In many moths/years when the ML2 stop be a novelty for you, you might return to this thered and ...
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An Audio Amplifier Design Philosophy
By David Berning ( Courtesy Meta-Gizmo.com )
I became interested in audio at a very young age because I liked music, but was too uncoordinated to be able to p...
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[quote user="KOTriode"]The preamp has the classic tube regulated power supply using 5R4, 6AS7, 6SJ7. It is transformer coupled output and has no capacitor in the signal chain, the gain is about 8db, so it is not a buffer. For convenience, it does...
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