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In Reply to: RE: Something New Under the Sun? posted by deafbykhorns on June 13, 2021 at 08:30:26
This "Simple 45" circuit of Dan Tucker and Dan Schmalle, breathed on by Steve Brown was the culmination. All the kids thought it was the best they'd ever heard.
Then five years ago I decided I needed more headroom, found and built the Mullard 5-20 Mono-blocks.
I have about $1800 in parts, not $1562 per watt ;-), and remain thrilled with their sound quality whether girl and guitar, Dizzy and Charlie Chan, or The Symphony Of A Thousand. These are the amps I'll be buried with.
There's no virtue in being old,
it just takes a long time
Follow Ups:
To legally enforce the above the designer of the circuit would have to hold a patent on the circuit. A copyright only protects the image/drawing of a circuit, not the circuit itself.
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
And there is a lot of that going around. Threats to sue if something gets copied or examined, or god forbid documented. I recall seeing a lot it on some newsgroup or another regarding some sort of transformer. Some mix of claimed ownership, patents and trademarks...
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
I remember that exchange. One side seemed bitter.
Do you have a link?
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
No link. I do remember the back and forth on the topic. One of the combatants is not really in business now. The other posts here.
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
A true 20 watt all tube 300B amplifier uses parallel tubes and more likely 16 watts maximum.
nada aqui
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Nice looking amps
I have 65W SET amps at about $90 a watt and that was using monolith magnetics iron. I think the amps quality is mostly in the OPT.
Looks like you may have some magnequest OPT's?
That 45 amp had Magnequest BCP-15 plate chokes and Robin Hood Parafeed OPTs so as a beliver I would have spent for Mike's big Brooklyn P-P OPTs but he was out of action in 2015. On the advice of several of the leading lights at diyaudio that contributed to the 4-60 re-imagining we used Hammond 1650R. With more than a few premium parts used it's difficult to know who did what but the big Hammond OPTs certainly didn't hurt.
Building without NFB the ECC88 became 12AT7 to reduce gain. Triode wiring the EF86 further reduced gain and, along with the Gold Lion outputs, put the sound quality into the heavenly zone.
There's no virtue in being old,
it just takes a long time
I went back and read some of the threads in DIY. Are you BillEpstein or tubemack (Florida)? I'm in Florida but get up to the smokeys to mountain bike a couple times a year.
Hammond has some respectable iron, it doesn't necessarily measure as good but they sound great and have some good low end. I used a pair of Hammonds in my 65wpc SET before moving to monolith. I think the bass was a little better with the Hammonds but the monoliths took it to another level.
Getting rid of NFB and triode wiring was a good move.
Beautiful amps, but they don't look like the Mullard 5-20 to me. Is that even an EF86 front end? Looks like it might be something else.
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