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Romy the Cat


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Post #: 41
Post ID: 11811
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The external shields on the gas tubes.
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This post is a derivation from the following post:

http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=11797#11797

What is interesting is that I have a few the same types of shields for small 7 pin gas tubes and I have tried those shields on the gas regulators on my Melquiades. The shields on the gas tube do not damage sound at all. It is a common practice in past to use in measurement equipment the gas voltage regulators with external shields (in addition to an internal shield that any gas regulator has). Now I tried it on my gas tubes that serve Milq’s bias.

The positive supply gas tube had no difference between “with shields” and “without shields”. On the negative supply tube that cares grid bias the shield effect was auditable. The effect was very different then what it was on 6E5P and the effect was to much less degree. I would not even say that I bas better or worse – it was a tiny bit different but to a degree that I would argue if it was ever important.

Adding the external shields to 0A2 (the Amperex tube with doted internal shield - the best 0A2ever made) made sound a bit firm and a bit stiffer. Not a lot, juts a very little. I do not think that it has practical meaning however….

The caT


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ghpicard
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Effect of Octal Gas Voltage Regulators (0D3) on Milq sound?
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Hi Romy,   I wonder whether you could advance on the octal voltage regulator testing on the Milq, and what your conclusions were. As I have already seen Milq on your new home still with the 0A2s I can assume you weren't much satisfied but as I am going to try your Milq preamp stage (gas voltage regulator biasing included) in a SET of mine, it would be good to know if it's worth to try with 0D3s or if I should go straight to miniature tubes.Gaston
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Romy the Cat


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I do not know.
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 ghpicard wrote:
Hi Romy,   I wonder whether you could advance on the octal voltage regulator testing on the Milq, and what your conclusions were. As I have already seen Milq on your new home still with the 0A2s I can assume you weren't much satisfied but as I am going to try your Milq preamp stage (gas voltage regulator biasing included) in a SET of mine, it would be good to know if it's worth to try with 0D3s or if I should go straight to miniature tubes.Gaston

Gaston, 

 As you can see a few posts back I was trying it but I did not get a feeling that it was worthy. I did not get any “better” sound. Now, was it before I use specific octal and specific 7-pin tubes that had overridden the different bens the tube times? Good question but I do not know the answer. I decided to abandon further tries without reaching a sensible answer and I did not see a need to gig into the subject deeper.

The caT


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  »  New  Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades?..  The survival guide...  Melquiades Amplifier  Forum     27  287868  11-25-2005
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