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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6302 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6301 
DHT Milq? 6301 
The DHT journey. 6301 
DHT tone 6301 
Well, why not? 6300 
Holding the Fort 6300 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6300 
Input tube and DC heaters 6299 
Reimyo Pat 777 6299 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6295 
DHT or 300B? 6295 
300B 6295 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6295 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6294 
Hence the confusion 6294 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6294 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6294 
My experience with DHTs 6294 
Pigmented coloration? 6294 
Dht-dht 6294 
Dynamic viscosity? 6294 
The Pallette preamp... 6294 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6294 
"soul" of tubes 6294 
There is a difference... 6294 
Vibration injection? 6294 
Homework # 4334 6294 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6294 
Old valves have more soul! 6293 
Was it soul or soil? 6293 
It was just a heading 6293 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6293 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6293 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6293 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6293 
Injection of analog dither? 6293 
Subliminal signal 6293 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6293 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6293 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6292 
Avicenna = Arabian 6292 
Persian, not Arab 6292 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6292 
More words to describe "sux" please 6292 
Revolution 6292 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6292 
One-stage DHTs 6291 
One other thing 6291 
One stage 6291 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6291 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6291 
I see the things differently. 6291 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6291 
The audiophile attitude 6291 
The where and why of design choices 6291 
Blah blah blah 6291 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6291 
Do I need to be hissing? 6291 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6291 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6291 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6290 
What is randomness? 6290 
Those least three possibilities… 6290 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6290 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6290 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6288 
A Beautiful Mind 6287 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6285 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6270 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6270 
Abandoning Milq? 6270 
Will see how it goes.... 6270 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6268 
Topology and 2A3? 6268 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6268 
Type Casting 6268 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6268 
6sn7-2a3 6268 
Topology vs parts 6268 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6268 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6268 
Parts Frenzy 6268 
Too many new sounds 6268 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6267 
New tubes 6266 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6266 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6266 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6266 
New 2A3 6266 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6265 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6264 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6264 
Czech tubes 6262 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6262 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6262 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6261 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6261 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6258 
Here she is. 6257 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6253 
New 2A3 tubes 6253 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6253 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6252 
Multistage DHT circuits 6251 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6250 
Emission Labs 2A3 6250 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6250 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6250 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6250 
The YO186 Strip Show 6250 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6249 
It will be interesting…. 6249 
OPT impedence 6249 
More about the Plate Loading 6249 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6244 
2A3 data 6244 
The New 2A3 tubes 6244 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6244 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6243 
Everything about everything. 6243 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6243 
Options, options, options.... 6243 
I think we agree overall 6243 
An IDHT with more gain? 6242 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6242 
2A3 tube impressions 6237 
Interesting analogy 6237 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6237 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6237 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6237 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6237 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6237 
Why NOS tubes? 6236 
The Holly Ignorance 6236 
Tube tasting 6236 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6236 
Make mine thoriated please 6236 
Any Germans out there? 6236 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6236 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6236 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6236 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6235 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6235 
Tube sound and vibration 6235 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6229 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6228 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6228 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6227 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6227 
B4/B5 British made 6226 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6226 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6225 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6225 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6224 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6223 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6220 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6220 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6219 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6219 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6219 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6219 
The identical operation environment? 6219 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6219 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6219 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6218 
How to get max power from 2A3 6218 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6218 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6218 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6218 
Gain is not power. 6218 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6218 
Specialized DSET approach 6218 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6218 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6218 
The 2A3 loading 6218 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6218 
Optimizing the 2A3 6218 
How much to DSET a DSET 6218 
DSET for Titan 6218 
The Best of All Worlds 6218 
Multiamp setup 6217 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6217 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6217 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6217 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6211 
2A3 and 400V supply 6211 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6210 
Another shot at numbers 6210 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6210 
Okay, so this might work.... 6210 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6210 
Looks good, but.... 6209 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6209 
Less is more... usually. 6209 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6208 
Stepping Out 6208 
Said to be good, but 6208 
Gain to lose 6208 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6208 
Another idea for losing gain 6208 
What's best 6208 
Options, options... 6208 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6208 
Other compromises... 6207 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6206 
Is it glowing yet? 6186 
It is comming.... 6186 
The new MF channel. 6180 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6179 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6171 
The intestage loading talk. 6168 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6163 
1 in 50? 6163 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6163 
Die Walküre soldering. 6162 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6161 
Another amp arond YO186 6160 
Gain? 6160 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6160 
Simple is good 6159 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6159 
The Milq DSET is up. 6158 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6156 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6156 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6155 
Ok, what do I want? 6155 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6155 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6155 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6155 
How about the tweeter? 6154 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6154 
Safe and Sound 6154 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6154 
Some clarifications. 6154 
How about that?!!! 6154 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6152 
Head Room 6152 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6151 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6151 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6151 
Again with the PS 6151 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6149 
Parallel Universe 6149 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6147 
Why I let other people build them... 6147 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6147 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6146 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6143 
MF: the pre-final version. 6143 
Loftin-White? 6143 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6143 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6143 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6139 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6139 
Define really quiet 6138 
Another variable of sound 6138 
Backlash? 6138 
Alternative filament supplies 6138 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6138 
Going down the DC path 6137 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6137 
Molecular sound 6137 
AC-DC heater supply 6137 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6137 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6137 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6137 
Hiss or Hum 6137 
AC transformers 6137 
I have seen the Promised Land 6136 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6136 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6135 
Divide and Conquer 6135 
The design phase is over. 6134 
The unexpected insanity! 6133 
Loading 6133 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6133 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6133 
Going the Distance 6133 
Read the f*** manual! 6133 
Agreed. 6133 
I agree 6133 
The filament transformer 6133 
Center-tap and options 6133 
Something like this…. 6133 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6133 
The foreplay is going on. 6133 
Split balance 6132 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6132 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6132 
SHuguang 6132 
Going through…. 6131 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6130 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6130 
Hum vs voltage 6130 
Meow about the tubes… 6130 
To Be a Content Cat 6130 
Completed! 6127 
Tradition 6127 
Absolutely beautiful! 6127 
The 'film' caps in PS 6126 
Science or religion 6126 
Mass Extinction 6126 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6126 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6126 
Capacitor choices 6126 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6125 
The minor day of Quartets. 6125 
Them's the Breaks 6125 
Eventually! 6124 
So Soon? 6124 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6124 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6123 
The wire for DC-coupling 6123 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6123 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6123 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6122 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6121 
The DHT live reserve 6120 
Some interestng models 6120 
Eaten alive. 6120 
The tubey déjà vu? 6119 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6115 
The 4V takes a lead. 6111 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6108 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6108 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6106 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6105 
Exiting the design mode? 6105 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6105 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6101 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6100 
Setting up the new Playback 6099 
And the winner is… so far 6096 
If you like type 45... 6096 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6096 
Favorite Flavor? 6096 
The 45 times Meow... 6096 
The problem that I see is… 6096 
Running the 45 6096 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6095 
The commentaries about everything. 6095 
Driver tube and biasing 6095 
DHT drivers 6095 
The ideas are worth trying? 6095 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6091 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6091 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6090 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6090 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6090 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6090 
Operating points and cathode current 6090 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6090 
Actually it is not so simple. 6090 
Resistors at the front 6089 
A minor alternation of a position 6089 
The era of enlightenment. 6086 
The devil is in the details.... 6086 
Constructing Sound 6086 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6085 
The “strange” YO186 6076 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6031 
2S4S and 2A3 6022 
Ho to use the YO186 6015 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6015 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6015 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6013 
Not anymore! 6002 
The very good YoYonisation! 6001 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6000 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 5987 
DHT, YO186, or??? 5987 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 5934 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 5933 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 5930 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 5920 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5682 
All the Best from Burgundy 5682 
Cheesy tubes 5681 
Me and my DHT references… 5572 
Y0-186 in winter. 5475 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5474 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5443 
In My Dreams 5443 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5443 
Blame? 5442 
When good is not good enough. 5442 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5442 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5441 
How the YO186 was used. 5025 
What is old is new? 5024 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5023 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4572 
That sucks. 4572 
YO186 4570 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4570 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4570 
A hallucination? 4567 
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