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In Reply to: Sonic Observations - Replaced Selenium on PAS posted by crooner on September 16, 2004 at 22:57:13:
Use a small (0.25 - 0.5 ohm) resistor to drop your heater voltage back to spec. You should not run with heaters over 10% above center point. Your sound should return. Making tubes suffer is never the road to sonic bliss.
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- Re: Sonic Observations - Replaced Selenium on PAS - Chris O 05:36:14 09/17/04 (9)
- Interesting....I am going to measure heater voltages - crooner 09:31:04 09/17/04 (8)
- Disagree - Russ57 10:05:21 09/17/04 (7)
- Re: I agree with Disagree - Jimmy 17:44:45 09/17/04 (0)
- Selenium replacement..first mod that actually did not help the sound... - crooner 11:21:16 09/17/04 (1)
- Now if you want the next step up - Russ57 12:08:05 09/17/04 (0)
- Yes, indeed. They are series connected.. - crooner 11:16:27 09/17/04 (3)
- Actually... - Russ57 12:03:26 09/17/04 (2)
- I am going to follow your suggestion... - crooner 18:43:40 09/17/04 (1)
- About lasting as long - Russ57 07:36:50 09/18/04 (0)