In Reply to: thank you posted by eedork on March 15, 2007 at 18:09:44:
Hello,Never mind the tube rectifier! It always adds a natural warmth and a balanced tone to the sound, insted of the edgyness of solid state. When solid state rectification is done right, it does sound really good, but a tube can still help it. Simply parallel the tube rectifier with solid state diodes! That way, you will get instant high voltage, and you can put no matter what size cap for the first position, as the tube will not be strained: the SS conducts the bulk of the current (due to its much lower internal resistance), and when the SS diode gets cornered (around the recovery point) the tube takes over.
The voltage drop of paralleled tube / SS diodes is the same as of SS only. In addition, you can toy around a LOT with rectifier tube rolling! When the amp is on, simply unplug the rectifier. You won't even hear a pop, the amp is not affected, but you'll be able to hear the sonic difference. I've made a preamp with such rectification, and the combination of tube + solid is better than any of the two alone.Good luck!
Janos
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- leave the tube rect in & add ss at the same time - Janos 16:10:09 03/18/07 (0)