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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #138: Six Channels are UP by anthony on 2019-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Hi Romy,So, six channels are now operational in the first DSET.  By up I mean the anode voltages on all tubes is about right and the currents are in the ballpark of where they need to be.  I am yet to check the DC Offset so hopefully that goes ok.Ini...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: The batteries are a tricky thing. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="be"]Could you tell a bit about how does this: "I end up with 360V on B+, 15K plate load, grounded cathode, 160V on plate and -3.5V on grid via a series battery." sound as compared to the normal Milq bias?[/quote] I did the following. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Bread-boarded Melquiades Fullrange by anthony on 2017-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Romy,Using the Fullrange PS I have bread-boarded the Fullrange amplifier...Turn off the lights and it looks much better.To my surprise (this is my very first amplifier build) everything seemed to work pretty much straight away.  The voltages seemed r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: OK, try it, it is all yours. by Romy the Cat on 2013-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="Celsius"]The problem is that my target is drive a 211  as full amp,  and my CD player  give a litle bit more than 1v to grid. What do you think    1V x 33times x 2.8 give 93ppV enought to drive the 211. [/quote] Well, you need another ga...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #171: Small steps by anthony on 2019-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Unfortunately I've reached out but not managed to make contact with John Hasquin regarding the spacer in the upperbass horn.  I'll just have to wing it.I did finally manage to get a day and a half to make the second DSET operational but it refuses to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #240: DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... by cv on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Sorry I'm a little late here, but anyway... here's something that may worth trying. Apologies that I can't provide a schematic at the mo - I can sort this out later if you like. In the meantime, you'll need a pen and napkin to help visualise this:The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Driver tubes, grid leak biasing, and fidelity by AnonymousUser on 2006-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver tubes, grid leak biasing, and fidelity in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
peter wrote: 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 response, or a tu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: The Super Milq’s input: electrical perspective. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-24 
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 #110: OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
If I say that it was horrible with San Audio 2A3 driven with buttery biased 6E5P then I really meant it.  I got home today tune it on and it was so bad that decided that it shell not use it as is. Even though it an experimental amps but still it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Bais and filament voltages by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
DA, looks like very nice  and lucid assembly. How do you like the sound of the thing? The  output stage 200mA /187V. It is a bit too small but I will do. I do not know what the gap you have in your OPT. If it is limited to 200mA then stay there, you ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #156: I think it just too fresh tube by Romy the Cat 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 
There is one thing that you also need to consider. The way how in ML2 bias is built it is a bit tricky to set bias for a new tube. In ML2 a brains new tube will raise bias very aggressively and then it will return it back as the tube heat up (in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: 6C33C mono block @ clipping by KOTriode on 2012-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Paul, I tried this tube in few other amps and also on a phono amp and I like the sound of this tubes, perhaps it  matched with the speakers/amp combination better than other, still there are lots of other tube out there that I would like to tr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Good and neutral by Celsius on 2014-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Celsius, I do not know what CCS you impended, did you drive 6e5p’s plate with constant current source?*1 I also do not know/like 6e5p with battery bias. The only application that I find 6e5p suitable was the Milq-style bi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #172: Keep looking, I was there....:-) by Romy the Cat on 2019-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]I did finally manage to get a day and a half to make the second DSET operational but it refuses to bias correctly.  I've traced the circuit a dozen times, checked component values, tried to find shorts, checked cap polaritie...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #139: I think there is little evidence of marketing bias in the papers. Call... by oxric on 2011-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Scooter,You may be right. Harman is a big international organisation which obviously seeks to profit from its marketing effort as well as from research conducted and papers written by its employees. But call me naive if you wish, I do not agree with ...

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 #14: In which direction the tube goes? by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="be"]Thanks ml8, do you know how much it could swing before problems, either due to clipping or grid current?[/quote] I would be interesting to know how much plate voltage (and power) 6E5P would have with no bias. If ml8 would promi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Bias by deemon 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 
Hi all ! I thought about this resistor bias idea that Chris proposed , and found some some problems here . One of them discovered Chris himself - it is a big serial resistor in the grid chain , and it can cause not only HF rolloff ( it isn't a big pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: GU81M with a filter by N-set on 2011-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
I had some free time which I'd decided to waste with this "project".For some unknown to me reason (I'm an idiot when it comes to filters)the Sallen Key topology needed one more 12AX7 stage, unlikeI happily drew some posts ago. The resulting SPICE'd p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: How the amp sounds? by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Celsius, I do not know what CCS you impended, did you drive 6e5p’s plate with constant current source? I also do not know/like 6e5p with battery bias. The only application that I find 6e5p suitable was the Milq-style bias with two gas tube driving ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #309: EAR834p how does RIAA feedback work? by AlexBerger on 2021-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Hi Romy,I read about EAR834p modifications in number of forums. And I never found any explanation how does RIAA feedback work.Only from you I heard about Miller capacity that used in this RIAA.I tried to do my calculations and as I understand the Mil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #206: Cathode vs. fixed with DHT by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Btw, did you consider fixed bias to the output stage via the interstage secondary?[/quote] Yes, I did and I passed on this idea. First of all I have 200V and 400V in the amp and I do not what to bring new voltages in. The 200V is too...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Not really possible by shannon on 2016-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melq 6e5p driver stage for ss? in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
thee srp in Zarathustra is cathode bias, melq is grid bias.  If gas biased the srpp it would no longer be the circuit in zarathustra. what would this do to sound i have no idea.  The function of the gas tubes in melq are not only for providing bias. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: It's the tube by KOTriode on 2011-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Romy, I have good confidence that it was the tubes and not the circuit. I have checked the cathode driver that bias the 6C33C and there was not any problem. Sure if the cathode bias failed, the 6C33C current will shoot way up and burned up the fuse...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Bias and heat by jessie.dazzle on 2007-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]"...Obviously I will have to keep a closer watch on the OPs..."[/quote] Paul,Though I don't let my ML2s go more than a month without verifying the bias, once, due possibly to a screwy tube, one ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #343: Driver tube and biasing by cv on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
AlloOn the matter of the DHT having a plate resistance of 500-700... you do realise that running the 6E5p with an unbypassed cathode resistor is giving you an effective Rp of about 12k, right? The formula is, IIRC, Rp + (mu+1)Rk.Given that 12k seems ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Bias or do not Bias – what a qeston!!! by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Contemplating now how to organize biasing for 3 singe stages of my 6-chanls amp I was faced the dilemma: do I need to bias my tubes. The 6E5P/6E6P are Russian tubes and it means that are very different right from the boxes. The Milq, driver tubes, be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: VR tube biase by Vincin on 2014-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications... in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
Hi, I buillt the amp based on your circuit with the exception of the bias scheme. Currently I have CRCRC bias for the ouput valve and Lithium battery grid bias for the driver. I use the amps to drive low efficiency 2 way ported boxes and vintage Tann...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #142: So far so good... by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Thanks for your thoughts Romy.  Last night I roughly wired in some random crossovers….[/quote]I wrote a loooong replay to you after that post but my 2.5 yo son turned off my computer while I was posting it. Hate to rewrit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The Melquiades bias: some history. by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? in Melquiades Amplifier  27 Replies 
[quote user="Chirag"]The 6E5P is an interesting device (I did some research after you dropped the "tetrode" hint and bought a few :-)), but the bias scheme with the OA2's is still incomprehensible to me.  [/quote]Ok, I will try to explain. The...
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