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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6346 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6345 
DHT Milq? 6345 
The DHT journey. 6345 
DHT tone 6345 
Well, why not? 6344 
Holding the Fort 6344 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6344 
Input tube and DC heaters 6343 
Reimyo Pat 777 6343 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6339 
DHT or 300B? 6339 
300B 6339 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6339 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6338 
Hence the confusion 6338 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6338 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6338 
My experience with DHTs 6338 
Pigmented coloration? 6338 
Dht-dht 6338 
Dynamic viscosity? 6338 
The Pallette preamp... 6338 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6338 
"soul" of tubes 6338 
There is a difference... 6338 
Vibration injection? 6338 
Homework # 4334 6338 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6338 
Old valves have more soul! 6337 
Was it soul or soil? 6337 
It was just a heading 6337 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6337 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6337 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6337 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6337 
Injection of analog dither? 6337 
Subliminal signal 6337 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6337 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6337 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6336 
Avicenna = Arabian 6336 
Persian, not Arab 6336 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6336 
More words to describe "sux" please 6336 
Revolution 6336 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6336 
One-stage DHTs 6335 
One other thing 6335 
One stage 6335 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6335 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6335 
I see the things differently. 6335 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6335 
The audiophile attitude 6335 
The where and why of design choices 6335 
Blah blah blah 6335 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6335 
Do I need to be hissing? 6335 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6335 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6335 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6334 
What is randomness? 6334 
Those least three possibilities… 6334 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6334 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6334 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6332 
A Beautiful Mind 6331 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6329 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6314 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6314 
Abandoning Milq? 6314 
Will see how it goes.... 6314 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6312 
Topology and 2A3? 6312 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6312 
Type Casting 6312 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6312 
6sn7-2a3 6312 
Topology vs parts 6312 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6312 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6312 
Parts Frenzy 6312 
Too many new sounds 6312 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6311 
New tubes 6310 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6310 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6310 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6310 
New 2A3 6310 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6309 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6308 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6308 
Czech tubes 6306 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6306 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6306 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6305 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6305 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6302 
Here she is. 6301 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6297 
New 2A3 tubes 6297 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6297 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6296 
Multistage DHT circuits 6295 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6294 
Emission Labs 2A3 6294 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6294 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6294 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6294 
The YO186 Strip Show 6294 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6293 
It will be interesting…. 6293 
OPT impedence 6293 
More about the Plate Loading 6293 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6288 
2A3 data 6288 
The New 2A3 tubes 6288 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6288 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6287 
Everything about everything. 6287 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6287 
Options, options, options.... 6287 
I think we agree overall 6287 
An IDHT with more gain? 6286 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6286 
2A3 tube impressions 6281 
Interesting analogy 6281 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6281 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6281 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6281 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6281 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6281 
Why NOS tubes? 6280 
The Holly Ignorance 6280 
Tube tasting 6280 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6280 
Make mine thoriated please 6280 
Any Germans out there? 6280 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6280 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6280 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6280 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6279 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6279 
Tube sound and vibration 6279 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6273 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6272 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6272 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6271 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6271 
B4/B5 British made 6270 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6270 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6269 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6269 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6268 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6267 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6264 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6264 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6263 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6263 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6263 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6263 
The identical operation environment? 6263 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6263 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6263 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6262 
How to get max power from 2A3 6262 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6262 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6262 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6262 
Gain is not power. 6262 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6262 
Specialized DSET approach 6262 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6262 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6262 
The 2A3 loading 6262 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6262 
Optimizing the 2A3 6262 
How much to DSET a DSET 6262 
DSET for Titan 6262 
The Best of All Worlds 6262 
Multiamp setup 6261 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6261 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6261 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6261 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6255 
2A3 and 400V supply 6255 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6254 
Another shot at numbers 6254 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6254 
Okay, so this might work.... 6254 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6254 
Looks good, but.... 6253 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6253 
Less is more... usually. 6253 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6252 
Stepping Out 6252 
Said to be good, but 6252 
Gain to lose 6252 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6252 
Another idea for losing gain 6252 
What's best 6252 
Options, options... 6252 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6252 
Other compromises... 6251 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6250 
Is it glowing yet? 6230 
It is comming.... 6230 
The new MF channel. 6224 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6223 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6215 
The intestage loading talk. 6212 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6207 
1 in 50? 6207 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6207 
Die Walküre soldering. 6206 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6205 
Another amp arond YO186 6204 
Gain? 6204 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6204 
Simple is good 6203 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6203 
The Milq DSET is up. 6202 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6200 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6200 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6199 
Ok, what do I want? 6199 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6199 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6199 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6199 
How about the tweeter? 6198 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6198 
Safe and Sound 6198 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6198 
Some clarifications. 6198 
How about that?!!! 6198 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6196 
Head Room 6196 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6195 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6195 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6195 
Again with the PS 6195 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6193 
Parallel Universe 6193 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6191 
Why I let other people build them... 6191 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6191 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6190 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6187 
MF: the pre-final version. 6187 
Loftin-White? 6187 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6187 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6187 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6183 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6183 
Define really quiet 6182 
Another variable of sound 6182 
Backlash? 6182 
Alternative filament supplies 6182 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6182 
Going down the DC path 6181 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6181 
Molecular sound 6181 
AC-DC heater supply 6181 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6181 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6181 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6181 
Hiss or Hum 6181 
AC transformers 6181 
I have seen the Promised Land 6180 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6180 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6179 
Divide and Conquer 6179 
The design phase is over. 6178 
The unexpected insanity! 6177 
Loading 6177 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6177 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6177 
Going the Distance 6177 
Read the f*** manual! 6177 
Agreed. 6177 
I agree 6177 
The filament transformer 6177 
Center-tap and options 6177 
Something like this…. 6177 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6177 
The foreplay is going on. 6177 
Split balance 6176 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6176 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6176 
SHuguang 6176 
Going through…. 6175 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6174 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6174 
Hum vs voltage 6174 
Meow about the tubes… 6174 
To Be a Content Cat 6174 
Completed! 6171 
Tradition 6171 
Absolutely beautiful! 6171 
The 'film' caps in PS 6170 
Science or religion 6170 
Mass Extinction 6170 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6170 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6170 
Capacitor choices 6170 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6169 
The minor day of Quartets. 6169 
Them's the Breaks 6169 
Eventually! 6168 
So Soon? 6168 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6168 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6167 
The wire for DC-coupling 6167 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6167 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6167 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6166 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6165 
The DHT live reserve 6164 
Some interestng models 6164 
Eaten alive. 6164 
The tubey déjà vu? 6163 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6159 
The 4V takes a lead. 6155 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6152 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6152 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6150 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6149 
Exiting the design mode? 6149 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6149 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6145 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6144 
Setting up the new Playback 6143 
And the winner is… so far 6140 
If you like type 45... 6140 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6140 
Favorite Flavor? 6140 
The 45 times Meow... 6140 
The problem that I see is… 6140 
Running the 45 6140 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6139 
The commentaries about everything. 6139 
Driver tube and biasing 6139 
DHT drivers 6139 
The ideas are worth trying? 6139 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6135 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6135 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6134 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6134 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6134 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6134 
Operating points and cathode current 6134 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6134 
Actually it is not so simple. 6134 
Resistors at the front 6133 
A minor alternation of a position 6133 
The era of enlightenment. 6130 
The devil is in the details.... 6130 
Constructing Sound 6130 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6129 
The “strange” YO186 6120 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6075 
2S4S and 2A3 6066 
Ho to use the YO186 6059 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6059 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6059 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6057 
Not anymore! 6046 
The very good YoYonisation! 6045 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6044 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 6031 
DHT, YO186, or??? 6031 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 5978 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 5977 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 5974 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 5964 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5726 
All the Best from Burgundy 5726 
Cheesy tubes 5725 
Me and my DHT references… 5616 
Y0-186 in winter. 5519 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5518 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5487 
In My Dreams 5487 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5487 
Blame? 5486 
When good is not good enough. 5486 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5486 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5485 
How the YO186 was used. 5069 
What is old is new? 5068 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5067 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4616 
That sucks. 4616 
YO186 4614 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4614 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4614 
A hallucination? 4611 
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