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In Reply to: RE: Your loss...... posted by Ozzy on April 15, 2017 at 03:30:33
Do you believe that you understand my motivations and objectives well enough that you can make that call?
Frankly, LM amps look decent for what they are - kinda like a tractor - but they are not my bag. If you like them, great! Enjoy. Just don't expect me to do things the way you do.
91.
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein
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The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
...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
but they usually DON'T! :-)
we can use tubes that blow the doors off of mass market swill...
The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
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.
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
Those are 801A's running.
The next build... 841 driving an 801.
The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
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
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 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
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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"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein
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