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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6418 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6417 
DHT Milq? 6417 
The DHT journey. 6417 
DHT tone 6417 
Well, why not? 6416 
Holding the Fort 6416 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6416 
Input tube and DC heaters 6415 
Reimyo Pat 777 6415 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6411 
DHT or 300B? 6411 
300B 6411 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6411 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6410 
Hence the confusion 6410 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6410 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6410 
My experience with DHTs 6410 
Pigmented coloration? 6410 
Dht-dht 6410 
Dynamic viscosity? 6410 
The Pallette preamp... 6410 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6410 
"soul" of tubes 6410 
There is a difference... 6410 
Vibration injection? 6410 
Homework # 4334 6410 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6410 
Old valves have more soul! 6409 
Was it soul or soil? 6409 
It was just a heading 6409 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6409 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6409 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6409 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6409 
Injection of analog dither? 6409 
Subliminal signal 6409 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6409 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6409 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6408 
Avicenna = Arabian 6408 
Persian, not Arab 6408 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6408 
More words to describe "sux" please 6408 
Revolution 6408 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6408 
One-stage DHTs 6407 
One other thing 6407 
One stage 6407 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6407 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6407 
I see the things differently. 6407 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6407 
The audiophile attitude 6407 
The where and why of design choices 6407 
Blah blah blah 6407 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6407 
Do I need to be hissing? 6407 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6407 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6407 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6406 
What is randomness? 6406 
Those least three possibilities… 6406 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6406 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6406 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6404 
A Beautiful Mind 6403 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6401 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6386 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6386 
Abandoning Milq? 6386 
Will see how it goes.... 6386 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6384 
Topology and 2A3? 6384 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6384 
Type Casting 6384 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6384 
6sn7-2a3 6384 
Topology vs parts 6384 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6384 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6384 
Parts Frenzy 6384 
Too many new sounds 6384 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6383 
New tubes 6382 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6382 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6382 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6382 
New 2A3 6382 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6381 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6380 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6380 
Czech tubes 6378 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6378 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6378 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6377 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6377 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6374 
Here she is. 6373 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6369 
New 2A3 tubes 6369 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6369 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6368 
Multistage DHT circuits 6367 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6366 
Emission Labs 2A3 6366 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6366 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6366 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6366 
The YO186 Strip Show 6366 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6365 
It will be interesting…. 6365 
OPT impedence 6365 
More about the Plate Loading 6365 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6360 
2A3 data 6360 
The New 2A3 tubes 6360 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6360 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6359 
Everything about everything. 6359 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6359 
Options, options, options.... 6359 
I think we agree overall 6359 
An IDHT with more gain? 6358 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6358 
2A3 tube impressions 6353 
Interesting analogy 6353 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6353 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6353 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6353 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6353 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6353 
Why NOS tubes? 6352 
The Holly Ignorance 6352 
Tube tasting 6352 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6352 
Make mine thoriated please 6352 
Any Germans out there? 6352 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6352 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6352 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6352 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6351 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6351 
Tube sound and vibration 6351 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6345 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6344 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6344 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6343 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6343 
B4/B5 British made 6342 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6342 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6341 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6341 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6340 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6339 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6336 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6336 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6335 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6335 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6335 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6335 
The identical operation environment? 6335 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6335 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6335 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6334 
How to get max power from 2A3 6334 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6334 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6334 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6334 
Gain is not power. 6334 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6334 
Specialized DSET approach 6334 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6334 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6334 
The 2A3 loading 6334 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6334 
Optimizing the 2A3 6334 
How much to DSET a DSET 6334 
DSET for Titan 6334 
The Best of All Worlds 6334 
Multiamp setup 6333 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6333 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6333 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6333 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6327 
2A3 and 400V supply 6327 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6326 
Another shot at numbers 6326 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6326 
Okay, so this might work.... 6326 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6326 
Looks good, but.... 6325 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6325 
Less is more... usually. 6325 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6324 
Stepping Out 6324 
Said to be good, but 6324 
Gain to lose 6324 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6324 
Another idea for losing gain 6324 
What's best 6324 
Options, options... 6324 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6324 
Other compromises... 6323 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6322 
Is it glowing yet? 6302 
It is comming.... 6302 
The new MF channel. 6296 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6295 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6287 
The intestage loading talk. 6284 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6279 
1 in 50? 6279 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6279 
Die Walküre soldering. 6278 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6277 
Another amp arond YO186 6276 
Gain? 6276 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6276 
Simple is good 6275 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6275 
The Milq DSET is up. 6274 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6272 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6272 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6271 
Ok, what do I want? 6271 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6271 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6271 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6271 
How about the tweeter? 6270 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6270 
Safe and Sound 6270 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6270 
Some clarifications. 6270 
How about that?!!! 6270 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6268 
Head Room 6268 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6267 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6267 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6267 
Again with the PS 6267 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6265 
Parallel Universe 6265 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6263 
Why I let other people build them... 6263 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6263 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6262 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6259 
MF: the pre-final version. 6259 
Loftin-White? 6259 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6259 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6259 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6255 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6255 
Define really quiet 6254 
Another variable of sound 6254 
Backlash? 6254 
Alternative filament supplies 6254 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6254 
Going down the DC path 6253 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6253 
Molecular sound 6253 
AC-DC heater supply 6253 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6253 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6253 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6253 
Hiss or Hum 6253 
AC transformers 6253 
I have seen the Promised Land 6252 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6252 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6251 
Divide and Conquer 6251 
The design phase is over. 6250 
The unexpected insanity! 6249 
Loading 6249 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6249 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6249 
Going the Distance 6249 
Read the f*** manual! 6249 
Agreed. 6249 
I agree 6249 
The filament transformer 6249 
Center-tap and options 6249 
Something like this…. 6249 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6249 
The foreplay is going on. 6249 
Split balance 6248 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6248 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6248 
SHuguang 6248 
Going through…. 6247 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6246 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6246 
Hum vs voltage 6246 
Meow about the tubes… 6246 
To Be a Content Cat 6246 
Completed! 6243 
Tradition 6243 
Absolutely beautiful! 6243 
The 'film' caps in PS 6242 
Science or religion 6242 
Mass Extinction 6242 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6242 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6242 
Capacitor choices 6242 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6241 
The minor day of Quartets. 6241 
Them's the Breaks 6241 
Eventually! 6240 
So Soon? 6240 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6240 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6239 
The wire for DC-coupling 6239 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6239 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6239 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6238 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6237 
The DHT live reserve 6236 
Some interestng models 6236 
Eaten alive. 6236 
The tubey déjà vu? 6235 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6231 
The 4V takes a lead. 6227 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6224 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6224 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6222 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6221 
Exiting the design mode? 6221 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6221 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6217 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6216 
Setting up the new Playback 6215 
And the winner is… so far 6212 
If you like type 45... 6212 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6212 
Favorite Flavor? 6212 
The 45 times Meow... 6212 
The problem that I see is… 6212 
Running the 45 6212 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6211 
The commentaries about everything. 6211 
Driver tube and biasing 6211 
DHT drivers 6211 
The ideas are worth trying? 6211 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6207 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6207 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6206 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6206 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6206 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6206 
Operating points and cathode current 6206 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6206 
Actually it is not so simple. 6206 
Resistors at the front 6205 
A minor alternation of a position 6205 
The era of enlightenment. 6202 
The devil is in the details.... 6202 
Constructing Sound 6202 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6201 
The “strange” YO186 6192 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6147 
2S4S and 2A3 6138 
Ho to use the YO186 6131 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6131 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6131 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6129 
Not anymore! 6118 
The very good YoYonisation! 6117 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6116 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 6103 
DHT, YO186, or??? 6103 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 6050 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 6049 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 6046 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 6036 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5798 
All the Best from Burgundy 5798 
Cheesy tubes 5797 
Me and my DHT references… 5688 
Y0-186 in winter. 5591 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5590 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5559 
In My Dreams 5559 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5559 
Blame? 5558 
When good is not good enough. 5558 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5558 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5557 
How the YO186 was used. 5141 
What is old is new? 5140 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5139 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4688 
That sucks. 4688 
YO186 4686 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4686 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4686 
A hallucination? 4683 
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