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In Reply to: Re: 9 Watt Transconductance Amp posted by C.Y on July 4, 2006 at 06:44:16:
Here is the link for the original El84 version. It was a little under powered (even for Lowthers) with large full scale music so I decided to make something a little larger and went overboard, the result is an 813 based SE parafeed version that goes up to about 30 watts! Its still a work in progress but sound fantastic even in its current breadboarded version.The El509 version was going to be what I made until I got hooked on doing a 813 version.
There are a lot of people with fostex full range speakers that want to try this type of amp but the El84 was just too wimpy so I have gotten a lot of requests for the larger but still inexpensive version.
Thanks for the interest!
John S.
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Since I have already (breadboard) built the EL84 version (and happily listening to it for the past 6 months) driving my FE167 Fostexes, I can confirm John's finding that, even for a full-ranger, EL84's 2 watts can prove inadequate for louder and dynamic passages. Hence my desire to build a higher power version of this great implementation.
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