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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: The Super Milq’s biasing scheme in Colors by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"]Could you help me understand your biasing scheme with this version? I thought I understood the original Milq circuit - but the only channel that looks like that to me is the D channel. I don't get A and B at all! what is the 50 ohm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: There is no different Melquides versions. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wich melquiade? in Melquiades Amplifier  1 Replies 
David, there are no different Melquides versions.  Melquides is all about to use two-stage solution around cathode-ground 5E6P/6E6P with grid resistor bias where the bias voltage buffered by gas tubes. You can creates countless versions around th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: 6C33C amp/preamp follow up by KOTriode on 2012-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
The reason that I built the 6C33C preamp was to explore the 6C33C true musical potential like I did with the 845. Not only did I compare the sound of these tubes in power amp, but also in preamp. The reason is that with power amp you might hit some l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #161: It is all good. by Romy the Cat on 2019-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]First was the issue with the 6e6p  for the HF Channel not being able to draw enough current.  I checked the bias and it was fine and the potentiometer allowed plenty of adjustment so I changed nothing in the circuit.  A new ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Re: Cooking the 6C33C. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
Yes, Jim, you put it very well. Still in case of the 6C33C it only possible to cool the glass and I made experiments blowing a strong flow to the glass and it did cool down the plates. The problem is that it is not a good idea to apply a strong flow ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #925: Butteries are pain. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="joaco"]Hello all , i know this topic is almost about pp experience but since im experimenting with electricity i like to share some thoughts here . I builded a dac using very high quality components . As you know the power supply is crit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Study Cats - you will learn everything about loudspeakers. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression Drivers -in general in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] How were the Macondo's Axioms arrived at? By listening?  [/quote]I would encourage you to read carefully the following page:http://www.romythecat.com/MacondoAcousticSystem.aspx[quote user="serenechaos"] I am wondering ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: I have no explanation to this phenomena…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Melquiades bass channels: the coupling capacitor. in Melquiades Amplifier  11 Replies 
Yes, Chris, thanks. I understand how it works, the same Newton Bias only on the other side of the driver’s tube. Dima have proposed something similar in past and last nigh we discussed with him what you suggested. He was planning to post his commen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: The R5 is the key. by Romy the Cat on 2018-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Gintaras, yes, the 10.5mA was a bit too little for gas tube, 21mA. If you look at the stability of voltage regulation graph for these tubes then you will see an ark with 15-20ma being atop.   I do not understand why you keep asking me R13 & R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Lack of Melquiades? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
Interesting….. It is interesting to think about the relational of Melquiades slow take-up. I think that major contributing factor is that guy who calls himself Romy the Cat. Really, I think it’s it. The people who are capable to build amplifiers more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Regarding gas regulators by ml8 on 2007-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A resistor between screen and grid in Melquiades Amplifier  9 Replies 
That's very interesting. Looking at the Melquiades i've always wondered about a few things. If you don't mind, i will ask you about them:1. If you think gas regulators make sound of 6E5P so nice, didn't you try putting gas regulator tube in the grid ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Super Milq 6 channels diaries #5 by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
The new Super Milq’s input with combined filer and bias resistors. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: galloping geckos by hagtech on 2007-01-27 
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 
[quote]Is this one of those shining moments?[/quote]It could have been.  The theory seems pretty reasonable to me at the moment.  Time will tell.  I'll make up a new adapter card that runs both sections and add a pot to negatively...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: The Second Super Milq: it is coming. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
To my surprise it is going along not painful. I do it a half hour per day – only when I am in a mood - and I do not feel abusive with it at all. At this point the half of the bias chain of the third of the filters have installed. If it go further so ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Sometimes ripples are not only ripples. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"] The issue I see is that of intermodulation distortion on the biasing of the output tube.  It will effectively change HF operating point per supply ripple.  Easy to understand if one imagines a gross ripple of 50V.&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Me too... by anthony on 2020-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]I am always a bit hesitant to buy into "listening descriptions". I am a musician and am confronted every day with Sound bias - attraction to what we are accustomed to, expectations being confirmed. We are creatures of habit and mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Label or map it religiously. by Romy the Cat on 2017-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Label or map it religiously. in Melquiades Amplifier  0 Replies 
I was telling somewhere that in case you have built Super Milq then you need to label everything. My Milq has test point at plates of the first tube, the bias and plates of second tube. It means 3 test points per channel, time 6 channels it makes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: A Driver. by Romy the Cat on 2013-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Celsius, I think you do not take in your equation the input voltage. If you bias 6E5P with 4.1V then it can pass 4V with no feedback.  Since the tube has under normal circumstances 33 times gain then you have 132V RMS from your driver stage, wish is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: Some very good points... and... possibly more logical reasoning? by floobydust on 2009-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
 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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #126: You don't ask for much now, eh? by floobydust on 2009-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
 That's a tough one.... the 6528 is on par with the 6336 dual triode (30 watts dissipation per section) but is overkill for a couple watts. It does have a mu of 9 which is quite high for a large IHT dual triode. It should easily drive a 1K load,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: The idea of analog randomanization. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] The VERY INTERESTING idea is that the introduction of noise as a dithering element for the analog signal (for our brain to decode) can be helpful in increasing the retrieval of information vital to conveying the Sound. [/quote] T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: Fresh 6C33C behavior ect. by jessie.dazzle on 2010-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I am familiar with the fresh 6C33C behavior, and I do set bias much lower while burning them in.   This set of tubes has been installed for about 3 months; the amps are operating about 45 hours a week.   Before switching them on the next time, I'll t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: You are OK. by Romy the Cat on 2018-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Gintaras, basically it is not bias voltage problem but voltage drifting +-10mV with preamp disconnected. The 10mV is absolutely irrelevant voltage. You see, the gas tubes are voltage stabilizers but they are not as precise as the SS stabilizers. T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Circuit instability by N-set on 2012-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Actually I do not have the instability issue sorted out completely...I'm talking about circuit instability now, not the tube instability. Let us imagine all tubes are rock stable.As I see it there are at least two major sources of instability, in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #128: Upperbass crossover by anthony on 2014-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Romy, I appreciate that this is an old thread now and that you may not remember everything from your time developing these amplifiers, but I have a (hopefully) simple question about the upperbass crossover in the schematic above.  All other channels ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #181: Filament considerations by N-set on 2011-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Alex, have you killed your ham finally?What was the source?[quote user="AlexBerger"]Is the filament ground connected to the common ground?[/quote]Of course! Otherwise the fixed bias would not work. Moreover it's connecteddirectly at the V2 to minimiz...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: Works +/- properly by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] Sorry Romy, I did not want to sound nitpicking. I'm rather trying to understand if my copy works +/- properly.[/quote]   I do not see you nitpicking, you do the right things and I wools do the very same if I was at your place. 1V...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: High transconductance and the Hawaiian archipelago. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 7788 tube mic pre design in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Jim, in my corrector (Dima’s design with R2=50R) I made many experiments adjusting the VR1. Dima proposed 150V on 7788 plate purely arbitrary, what he did it he never ever seen 7788 and it was just a concept RIAA for him. After it was built and I p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: No Magico medal? by steverino on 2014-05-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
I didn't see Magico in Breuninger's Winners Circle in the link above. An oversight or an unhealthy bias against Taiko drums??As for Guy Sergeant's comment about the demo choices, I assume those kind of artificial sounding mixes are done on purpose as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: Electromechanically pressurized dialectic by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
Yes, it is a bit confusing, as I meant to say that it will be a half of capacitance, I said it twice and it looks unclear. Still anybody understands how series capacitance works. BTW, it was a standard practice in before 70, before industry made by-p...
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