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Cleantimestream

In Reply to: RE: Really? posted by 91derlust on April 15, 2017 at 16:23:45

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For sure. And... - 91derlust 19:36:17 04/15/17 (0)
...some DIY guys are more likely to know what they want, how to get there, and how certain approaches are less likely to do that.

I simply have objectives that are not met by many commercial amps. My next build is very different in concept to the LM... it will weigh more and put out only ~2W. Who knows, it may even sound decent.

Cheers,
91.
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein
They CAN... - Ivan303 18:45:52 04/15/17 (9)
but they usually DON'T! :-)
- of course WE have an unfair advantage... - Cleantimestream 21:00:22 04/15/17 (5)
  we can use tubes that blow the doors off of mass market swill...
  The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
  - RE: of course WE have an unfair advantage... - PakProtector 08:57:45 06/12/17 (0)
    No kidding. I shudder to think about trying to tube a run of amps running a pair of 152TL per monoblock. Heck, I'd hate to try and find enough to cover the development of such a beast( as in find 4 good ones )...LOL
    
    Or 842's, or HY40's, or HY69's...metal-based 6SN7's of 1945 vintage...
    cheers,
    Douglas
    
    Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
  - Ahhhh... nice... - 91derlust 22:41:23 04/15/17 (3)
    Another 6C6 appreciator?! Nice, tangible-sounding tubes. 45 or 71A outputs... something else?
    I like the way you've used the RCAs to connect the input to the grid cap. I've damaged a couple of tubes by removing Yammy grid caps from the 6C6... the RCA would prevent that! Nice. I've got > 15 pairs of the NOS 6C6... but I don't want to lose any more!
    Cheers,
    91.
    "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein
    
    Edits: 04/16/17
    - RE: Ahhhh... nice... - Cleantimestream 14:31:31 04/16/17 (2)
      Those are 801A's running.
      
      The next build... 841 driving an 801.
      The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
      - Nice tubes... - 91derlust 16:52:17 04/16/17 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Ahhhh... nice... posted by Cleantimestream on April 16, 2017 at 14:31:31
        
        Ah, that would have been obvious if I'd noticed the thoriated tungsten filaments lit! I remember reading about the 841 tubes a while back but could not easily find a pair. A high gain version of the 801A from memory. Should be a really nice driving the 801A.
        Cheers,
        91.
        
        "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein
        
        Edits: 04/17/17
        
        RE: Nice tubes... - Ed Sawyer 07:53:45 05/10/17 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Nice tubes... posted by 91derlust on April 16, 2017 at 16:52:17
        
        It's an interesting tube (I have some), but the high plate resistance makes it somewhat challenging to work with, depending on how you want to couple it to the 801/10/etc.
        
        -Ed
- Some do - some don't. - 91derlust 19:20:50 04/15/17 (2)
  Some DIY builds I have seen are truly dreadful. Some DIY-come-commercial builds that folks rave about look truly dreadful. Some DIY builds put the vast majority of commercial builds to shame. It depends.
  I think that removal of commercial constraints can - given the right set of conditions - result in amplifier that can better meet needs.
  Cheers,
  91.
  
  "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein
  
  Edits: 04/15/17
  - RE: Some do - some don't. - Triode_Kingdom 05:53:19 04/18/17 (1)
    But then there's the fact that even tube gear built poorly sounds better than 99.5% of all solid state gear. :)
    
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    - Very true T-K! nt. - 91derlust 03:01:45 04/19/17 (0)
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      "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein

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