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Nope, the Russian tubes generally much, in fact much worse than western equivalents. There were however some exceptions. Those options were due to various reasons. The tubes like GM70, YO186, 1P24B, 6E5P, 6N30P, BO188, GM57, UB180, 6C33C, 6N6P, M...
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Ending up re-amping my MF channel, I found myself at unexpected situation that I am not completely compostable with Macondo HF. It is not that the HF are bad but they were made to serve the interest of older, slightly softer operating single-stag...
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Romy, I'm of course familar with your MF design and Jim's 6E5P curves is what I base my considerations on at this moment (along with the corresponding Spice model).Your DHT MF is quite self-balancing due to the large cathode resistor. WhatI have in m...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The HF Range “F” channel: The 6E6P-DR at 30mA connected at tetrode. The filter is second order with Sowter 9858 Pultec MEQ-5 EQ Inductor 420/277/145/108/61/34 mH) and variable air cap. The variable inductance and capacitan...
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I do not think that 6e5p driver stage withh ss could be useful for proper playback. or would it somehow be melq.
I am familiar with the proven method. in the case of melq it should be followed 100% exactly. I am very greatfull for ...
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[quote user="anthony"]My interest is
mainly in the 10Y/801A/VT25 tubes on one hand and the 45 on the other hand.
The YO186 also interests me a lot especially after reading your
impressions of it in your circuit and system, but it is a very diffic...
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I received a comment form people who reportedly well-familiar with using the high-frequency high gain tubes. They suggested me that the resistor between screen and grid (R23) might be eliminated and that would bring some benefits. It very much might ...
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I think it should be somewhere posted for my and perhaps for others future references. Here is the setting for testing Melquiades' single-stage tubes on Hickok 580/580A tube testers. To test the tube as a driver for a full Milq (two stages) set ...
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Hi Romy,So, six channels are now operational in the first DSET. By up I mean the anode voltages on all tubes is about right and the currents are in the ballpark of where they need to be. I am yet to check the DC Offset so hopefully that goes ok.Ini...
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We all know how low-power SETs sound driving low-sensitively ported speakers. The Morons feel that it they have “enough volume” then their SET is good to go. Of course it is not the case and low-power SETs shell not driver dead speakers.
However, I ...
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This idea keeps to fascinate me.
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=4063
and I really would like to try and to see what might happen. I’ have decided of move this task on my levels of priorities as something that I wo...
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[quote user="Paul S"] The truth is that if most of the seekers at this site knew what they were really in for by "copying Romy", then they would be wise to give up now.[/quote]
Well this is part of a bigger subject. I have a written and extend...
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[quote user="cv"] Consider a triode connected 13E1. 95W dissipation, will probably work beautifully with the existing OPT if you adjust the gap down and if you can rewire your arrays to present a somewhat higher impedance.Something like 400V-450V / 2...
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Here is the general specification for the parts that I used. The selection of the parts implies some liberty of course. It will be your amp after all, not mine - do whatever you wish. In some case when I feel that requirement is critical I will stres...
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[quote user="cv"]...yes, I remember. I wonder if it's due to the large (and varying with signal) capacitance of the 6C33 input interacting with the small coupling cap. Hopefully this will be less of an issue with the 6e5p/6p.[/quote]Chris,
It is cer...
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I got a forwarded email today containing the Lamm Industry’s release notes about their new SET amplifiers.
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/PDF/LammML3.pdf The good thing in this is that Vladimir is still Vladimir and he did changed since the Rich ...
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Well, I spent today a number of hours trying to advance my observations regarding abilities of the one-stage Melquiades. It was quite interesting. Thankfully the electivity today was way better during the second part of day. I loaded the 6E6P heavier...
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My project to add 3 one-stages channels to Super Melquiades look like progressing (it means I will have the new 15,5:1output transformers very soon) and in context of upcoming changes and, after long consideration and some tests, I desire...
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.. and therefore I do not know how serious to take you.As far as I know as now there are no people who have built Melquiades. I know that up to now about 5 attempts to do it but no one finished it yet up to the point that might report result. Dima is...
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Anthony and Romy, thanks for taking the time to respond to my question. I want to take on this project as a learning experience both in terms of simply building an amplifier from a schematic and for my edification on sound reproduction.
I’m starti...
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Well, any tube might be full range, the question about implementation,
power and objectives. I do not know what specifically this fellow does and what
he wants to drive with it. My experiments with single-stage 6e5p were not so
promising. He has d...
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The new 6-Channal Milq is up and running, I did manage to calibrate everything in the Macondo’s left channel and was listening it for a while. I might report somehow a controversial result. The MF drive with a single stage is incontestable king – it ...
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This post is a continuation of my late desiccation with Chris from:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=9641
David Slagle have made the OPT for YO186
http://www.intactaudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3560
Ideally I would like to try ...
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If one dht is good, two must be better?
I don't know. Some people like combining 6C45 etc with DHT, supposedly mixing the appealing qualities of each. Other people find that using a 6C45 (or other high-gm tube) with a 300B just makes a 300B sound...
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[quote user="N-set"]Risking that the topic has already been discussed and that I postin a wrong category (Romy feel free to (re)move this post:Is there any sense in trying 6C33 at higher volatges and lower currents?More precisely, I've been wondering...
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As I promised, I am informing about the fate of the Baby Melquiades project. The Baby Melquiades was armed for few days with new 60H transformer. The result was not positive. It sounded OK but it was not even close to the Melquiades sound. I wa...
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[quote user="be"]Could you tell a bit about how does this:
"I end up with 360V on B+, 15K plate load, grounded cathode, 160V on plate and -3.5V on grid via a series battery."
sound as compared to the normal Milq bias?[/quote]
I did the following. ...
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I have been contemplating for a week if I need to drain the power caps in my new revision of my power amp. The benefits to live the voltage in there is the cap continue formatting what the amp of off and it minimize the need to break-in or to train t...
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Well, it is not necessary a fully qualified urban legend as the problem does take please with fixed based 6C33C but..... only under certain conditions. I have written about it a lot on my site but will very briefly recall it again.
Dima might be cor...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is unquestionably an ambiguous project. The topmost question that I would ask myself after this project would be the following: can Milq-biased 6E5P to be as good (sound-wise) DC driver as some vintage direct heated tube...
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