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In Reply to: RE: Petite Onken 414 & 802D + 32B posted by Frank Mena on May 19, 2017 at 12:40:31
I took a leap of faith with the Onken cabinets as a pair came up for sale locally including the Altec drivers I also wanted.
[quoted from an earlier post]
Congrats ... this would be a dream come true for me :)
I'm curious whether you've experimented with solid state amplification? My understanding is that this is what the original Onken (and probably the scaled-down "Petite") was designed for. (I've been told that this is a point that got lost when the original article was translated from French to English and perhaps abbreviated a bit.) Anyway, you might give it a try ... easier than increasing the size of the cabinet! :)
Follow Ups:
Thanks for the comments.
As of yet I have not tried solid state amps with the Petite Onkens. I too have also have read (forget where) about the ss-amp preference & hence my "leap of faith" that these would work out with my existing tube amps. So far I'm very pleased at the results. I personally have always had a hard time changing stuff out for new/different, before first exploring a way to incorporate what I already have instead first.
The only changes I've made were the inclusion of K75-10 caps (bypassed with FT teflon caps) into the 6v6-preamp & 2A3 amps. Voices and piano now sound very natural & dynamics are better than before. Some may hate the K75-10's but I happen to like them (with a bypass cap 1/100 value). I also included them into the speaker crossover (bypassed with SSG-3 caps). Flame me if you like regarding bypass caps. So I guess I'm voicing or tuning the system to suit my ears.
Perhaps one day I'll dip my toes in the SS water but for now it can wait.
Cheers
Frank M
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