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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6474 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6473 
DHT Milq? 6473 
The DHT journey. 6473 
DHT tone 6473 
Well, why not? 6472 
Holding the Fort 6472 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6472 
Input tube and DC heaters 6471 
Reimyo Pat 777 6471 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6467 
DHT or 300B? 6467 
300B 6467 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6467 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6466 
Hence the confusion 6466 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6466 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6466 
My experience with DHTs 6466 
Pigmented coloration? 6466 
Dht-dht 6466 
Dynamic viscosity? 6466 
The Pallette preamp... 6466 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6466 
"soul" of tubes 6466 
There is a difference... 6466 
Vibration injection? 6466 
Homework # 4334 6466 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6466 
Old valves have more soul! 6465 
Was it soul or soil? 6465 
It was just a heading 6465 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6465 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6465 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6465 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6465 
Injection of analog dither? 6465 
Subliminal signal 6465 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6465 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6465 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6464 
Avicenna = Arabian 6464 
Persian, not Arab 6464 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6464 
More words to describe "sux" please 6464 
Revolution 6464 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6464 
One-stage DHTs 6463 
One other thing 6463 
One stage 6463 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6463 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6463 
I see the things differently. 6463 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6463 
The audiophile attitude 6463 
The where and why of design choices 6463 
Blah blah blah 6463 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6463 
Do I need to be hissing? 6463 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6463 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6463 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6462 
What is randomness? 6462 
Those least three possibilities… 6462 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6462 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6462 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6460 
A Beautiful Mind 6459 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6457 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6442 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6442 
Abandoning Milq? 6442 
Will see how it goes.... 6442 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6440 
Topology and 2A3? 6440 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6440 
Type Casting 6440 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6440 
6sn7-2a3 6440 
Topology vs parts 6440 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6440 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6440 
Parts Frenzy 6440 
Too many new sounds 6440 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6439 
New tubes 6438 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6438 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6438 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6438 
New 2A3 6438 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6437 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6436 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6436 
Czech tubes 6434 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6434 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6434 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6433 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6433 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6430 
Here she is. 6429 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6425 
New 2A3 tubes 6425 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6425 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6424 
Multistage DHT circuits 6423 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6422 
Emission Labs 2A3 6422 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6422 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6422 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6422 
The YO186 Strip Show 6422 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6421 
It will be interesting…. 6421 
OPT impedence 6421 
More about the Plate Loading 6421 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6416 
2A3 data 6416 
The New 2A3 tubes 6416 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6416 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6415 
Everything about everything. 6415 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6415 
Options, options, options.... 6415 
I think we agree overall 6415 
An IDHT with more gain? 6414 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6414 
2A3 tube impressions 6409 
Interesting analogy 6409 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6409 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6409 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6409 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6409 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6409 
Why NOS tubes? 6408 
The Holly Ignorance 6408 
Tube tasting 6408 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6408 
Make mine thoriated please 6408 
Any Germans out there? 6408 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6408 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6408 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6408 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6407 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6407 
Tube sound and vibration 6407 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6401 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6400 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6400 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6399 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6399 
B4/B5 British made 6398 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6398 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6397 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6397 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6396 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6395 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6392 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6392 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6391 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6391 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6391 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6391 
The identical operation environment? 6391 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6391 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6391 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6390 
How to get max power from 2A3 6390 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6390 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6390 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6390 
Gain is not power. 6390 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6390 
Specialized DSET approach 6390 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6390 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6390 
The 2A3 loading 6390 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6390 
Optimizing the 2A3 6390 
How much to DSET a DSET 6390 
DSET for Titan 6390 
The Best of All Worlds 6390 
Multiamp setup 6389 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6389 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6389 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6389 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6383 
2A3 and 400V supply 6383 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6382 
Another shot at numbers 6382 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6382 
Okay, so this might work.... 6382 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6382 
Looks good, but.... 6381 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6381 
Less is more... usually. 6381 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6380 
Stepping Out 6380 
Said to be good, but 6380 
Gain to lose 6380 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6380 
Another idea for losing gain 6380 
What's best 6380 
Options, options... 6380 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6380 
Other compromises... 6379 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6378 
Is it glowing yet? 6358 
It is comming.... 6358 
The new MF channel. 6352 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6351 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6343 
The intestage loading talk. 6340 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6335 
1 in 50? 6335 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6335 
Die Walküre soldering. 6334 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6333 
Another amp arond YO186 6332 
Gain? 6332 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6332 
Simple is good 6331 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6331 
The Milq DSET is up. 6330 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6328 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6328 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6327 
Ok, what do I want? 6327 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6327 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6327 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6327 
How about the tweeter? 6326 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6326 
Safe and Sound 6326 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6326 
Some clarifications. 6326 
How about that?!!! 6326 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6324 
Head Room 6324 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6323 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6323 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6323 
Again with the PS 6323 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6321 
Parallel Universe 6321 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6319 
Why I let other people build them... 6319 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6319 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6318 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6315 
MF: the pre-final version. 6315 
Loftin-White? 6315 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6315 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6315 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6311 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6311 
Define really quiet 6310 
Another variable of sound 6310 
Backlash? 6310 
Alternative filament supplies 6310 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6310 
Going down the DC path 6309 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6309 
Molecular sound 6309 
AC-DC heater supply 6309 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6309 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6309 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6309 
Hiss or Hum 6309 
AC transformers 6309 
I have seen the Promised Land 6308 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6308 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6307 
Divide and Conquer 6307 
The design phase is over. 6306 
The unexpected insanity! 6305 
Loading 6305 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6305 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6305 
Going the Distance 6305 
Read the f*** manual! 6305 
Agreed. 6305 
I agree 6305 
The filament transformer 6305 
Center-tap and options 6305 
Something like this…. 6305 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6305 
The foreplay is going on. 6305 
Split balance 6304 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6304 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6304 
SHuguang 6304 
Going through…. 6303 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6302 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6302 
Hum vs voltage 6302 
Meow about the tubes… 6302 
To Be a Content Cat 6302 
Completed! 6299 
Tradition 6299 
Absolutely beautiful! 6299 
The 'film' caps in PS 6298 
Science or religion 6298 
Mass Extinction 6298 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6298 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6298 
Capacitor choices 6298 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6297 
The minor day of Quartets. 6297 
Them's the Breaks 6297 
Eventually! 6296 
So Soon? 6296 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6296 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6295 
The wire for DC-coupling 6295 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6295 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6295 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6294 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6293 
The DHT live reserve 6292 
Some interestng models 6292 
Eaten alive. 6292 
The tubey déjà vu? 6291 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6287 
The 4V takes a lead. 6283 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6280 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6280 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6278 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6277 
Exiting the design mode? 6277 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6277 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6273 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6272 
Setting up the new Playback 6271 
And the winner is… so far 6268 
If you like type 45... 6268 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6268 
Favorite Flavor? 6268 
The 45 times Meow... 6268 
The problem that I see is… 6268 
Running the 45 6268 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6267 
The commentaries about everything. 6267 
Driver tube and biasing 6267 
DHT drivers 6267 
The ideas are worth trying? 6267 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6263 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6263 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6262 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6262 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6262 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6262 
Operating points and cathode current 6262 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6262 
Actually it is not so simple. 6262 
Resistors at the front 6261 
A minor alternation of a position 6261 
The era of enlightenment. 6258 
The devil is in the details.... 6258 
Constructing Sound 6258 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6257 
The “strange” YO186 6248 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6203 
2S4S and 2A3 6194 
Ho to use the YO186 6187 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6187 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6187 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6185 
Not anymore! 6174 
The very good YoYonisation! 6173 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6172 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 6159 
DHT, YO186, or??? 6159 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 6106 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 6105 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 6102 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 6092 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5854 
All the Best from Burgundy 5854 
Cheesy tubes 5853 
Me and my DHT references… 5744 
Y0-186 in winter. 5647 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5646 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5615 
In My Dreams 5615 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5615 
Blame? 5614 
When good is not good enough. 5614 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5614 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5613 
How the YO186 was used. 5197 
What is old is new? 5196 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5195 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4744 
That sucks. 4744 
YO186 4742 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4742 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4742 
A hallucination? 4739 
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