In Reply to: Things are quiet here. posted by jusbe on May 27, 2014 at 00:43:24:
I came to the end of the road with amps after about 30 years building. I found I liked the sound of the 4P1L more than all the other tubes I was using (26, 300b etc), found I could make a PSE amp with two stages of 4P1L, built it all in filament bias with Lundahl interstage and OPTs and that's it. Best amp I ever built.
Can't think of how to improve it so I just listen to it. I bought 150 of the 4P1L so got that covered. Drive it with a Mac Mini through a battery powered ES9023 DAC into Mark Audio Alpair 10s and there's nothing much I want to change. DACs will get better and I'll upgrade at some point, but I hardly have much to post about any more.
Don't know who else just ended up satisfied with what they have.
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Follow Ups
- Haven't built anything for well over a year.... - andy evans 05:29:30 05/29/14 (9)
- RE: Haven't built anything for well over a year.... - TonyB 18:38:49 06/13/14 (0)
- SEP popularity - jusbe 13:13:12 05/30/14 (3)
- RE: SEP popularity - Caucasian Blackplate 11:41:11 06/01/14 (1)
- agree - Frihed89 23:21:36 06/01/14 (0)
- Or multiple DHT outputs - andy evans 06:45:24 05/31/14 (0)
- RE: How about a DHT-Pre for those of us who like Vinyl - Frank Mena 07:03:55 05/29/14 (3)
- RE: How about a DHT-Pre for those of us who like Vinyl - xaudiomanx 18:30:43 06/17/14 (0)
- I use type 26 and....... - amandarae 22:10:21 06/01/14 (0)
- DHTs in filament bias - andy evans 13:20:36 05/29/14 (0)