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My 45 collection.

Posted by njjohn (A) on December 1, 2006 at 08:53:30

In Reply to: Re: not necessarily! late-night musings posted by VFR800A on December 1, 2006 at 07:53:01:

Hi Jim, thanks for your response.

I think the heart of John's amps lie in the opts, plus a few other things such as ac and also the chassis. Plus perhaps the fine and final adjustments made on the amps with back and forth listening/changing.

I think the chassis is pretty vital to the cohesion of everything. John would strip these vintage chasses and add holes to them if needed and really worked the chasses. He could put all the hours he wanted into any amp because he was basically just doing it for his own interest and avocation.

The knowledge is freely shared and I think it is possible to get a good builder to build a 45 with a few parts that are still fairly avaiable on e-bay.

I have a total of 7 of John's 45 amps. I'm not in a position to sell them now but you never know what natural or personal disaster that could come along that could change my mind. They are also like some vital books that I've only read the first few pages and that I look forward someday to study more and see what I can figure out. I don't want to hoard them but I don't want to sell them either. I was thinking of someday passing them on to my children, but yoiu never know, it just might not be there interest and the amps could be better off somewhere else. I might be able to lend something out at some point in the future if they are really determined to be that worthwhile.

Also there might be some opts out there now or that will be in the future that could just overwhelm everything else including these ones. But I don't know if that exists or if it will ever exist. Some of the best in audio and even music is in the past and it will never be duplicated or bettered.

I have one 717a/45, a pentode driver, same driver in the Yammota (sp?) and I would just love to compare it to one to see what is really going on and I would expect to find that John's amp is significantly better because of the ingredients mentioned. This driver though, just really seems good, and that probably has alot to do with why the Yammota seems well regarded.

I have three 6sn7/26/45 amps and my feeling has been that these are my favorite but sometimes it is hard to maintain an understanding or sufficient perspective.

I have one 6sn7/27/45 and this just seems to sound the best in a room with multiple vintage speakers, a room in which I play mostly dance type of music.

I have a paralled 6sn7/26/45 (two 45 tubes per channel) and I don't know really where it stands compared to a regular one. It may or may not be as good.

And I have one 45 amp in Pa, probably another idht/45, and I don't even know what it is or have an idea of the sound.

I've heard a Korneff amp which seemed to really work well for the audiophile in the way he was using it, and I heard a pair of Tucker monos with cobalt transformers which sounded pretty fast and impressive. But without some real listening and study especially with the latter, I don't know where this stuff really stands.

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