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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #141: Vibrations? What do you with them? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
The basically the same tubes. The 6E5P has own unit pins layout with heaters connected across the tube – very moronic in my view and it does not allow twisting the AC filament wires to the very end. The 6E6P has a common pins layout that most of west...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: 6E6P vs. D3A as driver. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6E6P-DR in triode mode in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
[quote user="Johann"]Hi Romy,i want to use the 6E6P-DR (triode mode) as driver in my tube 45 amp.I use a D3A (triode mode) with Anode choke at 180V, 12mA. Grid 2 is connected via 50 Ohm resistor to anode. Grid 3 (pin 8) is connected to cathode.Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Why did you buy them without glass? (6E6P & 6E5P) by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades For Dummies™ - step by step. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]Hi!  I have got these 6E6P tubes from Georgia (in the former USSR, not the home of sweet potato pie).  I have removed them all from their protective glass packaging, but I am unsure of how next to hook them up.[/quote]BT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: 6E5P vs. 6E6P by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
Sorry, with me apparent alzheimer-inspired progressing dyslexia…. I’m keep confusing whatever is possible to confuse. What I meant to say was the 6E5P vs. 6E6P. The last one you have in DR version. They are essentially the same tubes with different p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The 6E5P/6E6P data for Hickok 580/580A by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
I think it should be somewhere posted for my and perhaps for others future references. Here is the setting for testing Melquiades' single-stage tubes on Hickok 580/580A tube testers. To test the tube as a driver for a full Milq (two stages) set ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: 6E5P VS 6E6P by drdna on 2009-01-27 
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Romy, I assume you plan to use one of these as the driver tube. Do you distinguish any difference in the sound between the two tubes? I am curious as I have been looking over a big pile of them and they respond quite differently regarding vibrat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: What is the sonic character of the 6E6P-DR tube? by montepilot on 2009-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Anyhow, here is what I think I would do if I use the Alnic’s Preamp. Get rich the 7721 and 7788 and to put in there my 6E6P-DR in triode mode. The tube has very same pins and a full equivalent.  Increase the plate voltag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 6E6P-DR in triode mode by Johann on 2011-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6E6P-DR in triode mode in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Hi Romy,i want to use the 6E6P-DR (triode mode) as driver in my tube 45 amp.I use a D3A (triode mode) with Anode choke at 180V, 12mA. Grid 2 is connected via 50 Ohm resistor to anode. Grid 3 (pin 8) is connected to cathode.The 6E6P-DR (also 6E6P-E) a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: 6E6P vs. D3A as driver. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-14 
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[quote user="Johann"]Hi Romy,i want to use the 6E6P-DR (triode mode) as driver in my tube 45 amp.I use a D3A (triode mode) with Anode choke at 180V, 12mA. Grid 2 is connected via 50 Ohm resistor to anode. Grid 3 (pin 8) is connected to cathode.Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 6E6P-DR by Johann on 2011-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6E6P-DR in triode mode in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Hi Romy,thank you for your answer. On weekend i will rebuild my amp for the 6E6P-DR. You are right, the tube datas shows that pin 8 is a screen. On D3A pin 8 is Grid 3 connected to screen.I will try it with pin 8 lifted and connected to ground. I hav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 6E6P-DR in triode mode by Johann on 2011-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6E6P-DR in triode mode in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Hi Romy,i want to use the 6E6P-DR (triode mode) as driver in my tube 45 amp.I use a D3A (triode mode) with Anode choke at 180V, 12mA. Grid 2 is connected via 50 Ohm resistor to anode. Grid 3 (pin 8) is connected to cathode.The 6E6P-DR (also 6E6P-E) a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: The Alnic output stage’s driver. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="montepilot"]How would modifying preamp affect sonic character other than just providing more gain.  What's the advantage? Once such a modification is made are you restricted to using the 6E6P-DR tube only?  Will it change the sound o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: About the 6E5P stability by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DRU Tube for Melq’s HF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DRU Tube for Melq’s HF channel. in Melquiades Amplifier  0 Replies 
Those damn Russkies always threw surprises. Using in Melq the Russian-made tubes, probably very few the most remarkable tubes they ever made, the life defiantly threw some hi-fi astonishments. The people who follow my saga with Melq know that I do n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Triode Curves by hagtech on 2007-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: What is the sonic character of the 6E6P-DR tube? by montepilot on 2009-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Anyhow, here is what I think I would do if I use the Alnic’s Preamp. Get rich the 7721 and 7788 and to put in there my 6E6P-DR in triode mode. The tube has very same pins and a full equivalent.  Increase the plate voltag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Why did you buy them without glass? (6E6P & 6E5P) by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades For Dummies™ - step by step. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]Hi!  I have got these 6E6P tubes from Georgia (in the former USSR, not the home of sweet potato pie).  I have removed them all from their protective glass packaging, but I am unsure of how next to hook them up.[/quote]BT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #144: Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-28 
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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. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The 7721/D3A as the tweeter diver. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Referring to my very recent acceptance of the 6E6P as a tetrode to drive the tweeter: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=5329 I decided to today to stick my beloved 7721/D3A in place of the 6E6P – thanks God they have the same pins l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: 6E5P vs. 6E6P by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
Sorry, with me apparent alzheimer-inspired progressing dyslexia…. I’m keep confusing whatever is possible to confuse. What I meant to say was the 6E5P vs. 6E6P. The last one you have in DR version. They are essentially the same tubes with different p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #213: My playback feels like it is broken. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-10 
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I have today a local audio guy stopped by in my room and listened my playback. I have almost painful reaction from this listening session and could not wait when it will be over. The playback sounded very unpleasant, I mean so unpleasant that I w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #142: Vibration in tubes and sounds by drdna on 2009-01-27 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Stonily they are very similar in my view with a very slight advantage of 6E6P in delicacy and softness. I do not know what you mean “respond differently regarding vibration.”[/quote]As I had been looking at all these tubes...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: The con and pro of 6E5P anti-oscillations measures by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]has supposedly very nice Obbligato line of film HV caps . [/quote] Thanks, the high nominals the have only 630V and they are larger than I would like to have. Does anyone know how those Obbligato sound in PS? [quote user="hagte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Walking on the ice… by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Yes, I ma very enthusiastic to see what resume I will get. I would not use a single-stage amplifiers with low sensitively speaker. Low sensitively speaker and high sensitively speakers are different school of thinking in term of amplification. They h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I was playing lately with the Single-stage Melq and the DHT amp driving MF channel. It turned out that the Sun Audio VT-2A3 was very simple kit and it 2-3 hours to make it working. There is a lot in this kit that I do not like and some revisions will...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The Déjà vu feelings about 6E5P-E vs 6E5P by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
I did have the Déjà vu feelings about it as I felt that we had this conversation in past. Here we go – it was a year ago. http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=4291That post has both 6E5P-E and 6E5P datasheets and they are virtually the d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: A TV single in SET amplifier. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
Panos, it is not about convincing me. My standing is absolutely irrelevant in this subject – I do not sell audio and do not making living by evaluation of SET amplifiers.  I report what I have witnessed, nothing more. Sure, it is very possible that y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 6E6P-DR by Johann on 2011-07-14 
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Hi Romy,thank you for your answer. On weekend i will rebuild my amp for the 6E6P-DR. You are right, the tube datas shows that pin 8 is a screen. On D3A pin 8 is Grid 3 connected to screen.I will try it with pin 8 lifted and connected to ground. I hav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Reliable. by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] I do have some serious concerns with respect to my design, the LF stability beeing the most important one (before we even approach talking about the Sound...if any); you may rememebr I was asking you about the stability and relia...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: To regulate or not regulate 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-26 
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[quote user="Cosmos"] Anyway, as the description on our site on second paragraph says, the third 6C33 located at the back, is used as the pass element of the regulator (controlled by solid state circuitry) providing 220V with 100uV of random noise &a...
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