In Reply to: 300B PP or SE, serious DIY project posted by Eric Chan on September 9, 2012 at 07:02:17:
If one had to stay with 300B & high power, I would trust PP to have a better final result. The SE audio transformer would be a little odd designed for four SE 300B. Some state parallel tubes can cause slight smearing, but I have not tested that in any depth.
A PP triode amp can sound as good as SE, but the phase splitter must be right. A twin tail 6SN7 with a CCS will sound quite good with carefully matched components. Of course the rest of amp must be carefully designed including quality components.
The PP I built sounds like SE, but is a little more dynamic. A fast power amp may not please some audiophiles.
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- RE: 300B PP or SE, serious DIY project - Neff 08:33:05 09/09/12 (17)
- RE: 300B PP or SE, serious DIY project - dave slagle 11:13:35 09/09/12 (6)
- RE: 300B PP or SE, serious DIY project - Neff 14:12:30 09/09/12 (5)
- RE: 300B PP or SE, serious DIY project - Naz 07:38:01 09/10/12 (2)
- RE: 300B PP or SE, serious DIY project - dave slagle 11:53:48 09/10/12 (1)
- RE: 300B PP or SE, serious DIY project - Naz 15:52:52 09/10/12 (0)
- Single Ended Parallel tubes has been "smeared", absolutely nothing wrong with it. - Chris O 14:32:14 09/09/12 (1)
- RE: Single Ended Parallel tubes has been "smeared", absolutely nothing wrong with it. - Neff 14:39:49 09/09/12 (0)
- SE input stages and a phase splitting interstage - andy evans 09:11:19 09/09/12 (9)
- RE: SE input stages and a phase splitting interstage - Retsel 14:00:44 09/10/12 (0)
- Voices are just so real - Triode_Kingdom 15:58:27 09/09/12 (7)
- RE: Voices are just so real - Naz 08:07:59 09/10/12 (0)
- RE: Voices are just so real - Neff 19:21:15 09/09/12 (0)
- RE: Voices are just so real - Joe Roberts 17:58:14 09/09/12 (1)
- RE: Voices behind me........... - Neff 19:27:10 09/09/12 (0)
- RE: Voices are just so real - andy evans 17:49:31 09/09/12 (2)
- RE: Voices are just so real - Joe Roberts 18:07:23 09/09/12 (1)
- And bells and triangles! - andy evans 18:30:57 09/09/12 (0)