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Hi All, I know this is not speaker related, but I was looking for an inexpensive tube amp for my daughters dorm room and found this on eBay. Does anyone know about these? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Cheers.
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Last Summer at the Vancouver Island DIY meet, one of the people brought one of those amp's. Seemed to be fairly well received, although I never heard it myself.
Below is a link to the thread, it's 8 pages total. The specific pic's and references to the amp are posting #32, #35, #67 (w/ comments)and #67. You might try emailing the authors to get their impressions of the amp.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84360
this would likely be better
- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140095503696&fromMakeTrack=true (Open in New Window)
from Audiogon that has a "solid name". Better resale value in the future when your ready to upgrade. Just my opinion.
Godd Luck
For Dorm Room? Give yr head a Shake.. You are aledgedly buying this for your Daughter She actually Needs a reciever or Mini system .. Not some Goofy fragile tube thing of dubious pedigree :-)
I know it might seem exsesive, but we built these folded voight pipes for her dorm room and that Crown FRIED the drivers so I wanted something with a little less power and I figure it is never too early to get the young ones involved. Cheers.
I recommend that you connect an incandescent light bulb in the speaker wiring. You can calculate the value needed, but basically you want that light bulb to start to light up when a dangerously strong signal is input to the speakers. Your daughter and her friends will be able to crank the power up as high as they like, but after a certain point the volume will not go up any higher -- at that point the light show will begin. (Actually, it won't be a very exciting light show, but anyway, you'll have a pair of speakers that cannot be blown by any amplifier.
Greets!Buy her one of these, cheap and with only 3/4 W it will begin distorting so bad at dorm room levels she won't keep it 'cranked' for long enough to hurt either it or the speakers and when she tires of it you'll have a nice little horn amp:
GM
Loud is Beautiful if it's Clean!
hey Bare - theres something about Chinese steel used for cases (including some DAC) which reminds me of soup cans. many years back I pulled apart a toy made in Japan and it still had lithograph on inside surface.wonder what grade of steel is used for the output xformer's laminations? (Hammond had something shameful called "M20")
I havn't heard any of these amps but if someone is willing to take a chance this one looks less risky than say a SE 845 amp. MAinly due to the lower voltages and current thee tube types need.450.00 total gives you a lot of room for vintage EL84 amps but then they would most likly have to be repaired and for a non-techy to own one could be risky too.
There simply isn't a no-brainer turn key tube amp for a few hundred dollars. I would recomend one of the Panasonic recievers for under 300.00. Tubes or not they sound great!! I can refurb a vintage EL84 amp but one would have to get very lucky to score the few that will beat the Panny. And they are very few.
Greets!Which 'Pannies' are you referring to?
TIA,
The digitals in the link unless one can find an EA-801.
I have the acclaimed Panasonic SA-XR45 and am listening to it all the time with the Altecs.Its interesting because in the last 12 months there was just one used one that showed up on EBay. Indirectly it may prove that they are still considered a great value to their owners.
Keep in mind this receiver is considered a very good value for the money but not your only alternative.
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