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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6410 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6409 
DHT Milq? 6409 
The DHT journey. 6409 
DHT tone 6409 
Well, why not? 6408 
Holding the Fort 6408 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6408 
Input tube and DC heaters 6407 
Reimyo Pat 777 6407 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6403 
DHT or 300B? 6403 
300B 6403 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6403 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6402 
Hence the confusion 6402 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6402 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6402 
My experience with DHTs 6402 
Pigmented coloration? 6402 
Dht-dht 6402 
Dynamic viscosity? 6402 
The Pallette preamp... 6402 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6402 
"soul" of tubes 6402 
There is a difference... 6402 
Vibration injection? 6402 
Homework # 4334 6402 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6402 
Old valves have more soul! 6401 
Was it soul or soil? 6401 
It was just a heading 6401 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6401 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6401 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6401 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6401 
Injection of analog dither? 6401 
Subliminal signal 6401 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6401 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6401 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6400 
Avicenna = Arabian 6400 
Persian, not Arab 6400 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6400 
More words to describe "sux" please 6400 
Revolution 6400 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6400 
One-stage DHTs 6399 
One other thing 6399 
One stage 6399 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6399 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6399 
I see the things differently. 6399 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6399 
The audiophile attitude 6399 
The where and why of design choices 6399 
Blah blah blah 6399 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6399 
Do I need to be hissing? 6399 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6399 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6399 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6398 
What is randomness? 6398 
Those least three possibilities… 6398 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6398 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6398 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6396 
A Beautiful Mind 6395 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6393 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6378 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6378 
Abandoning Milq? 6378 
Will see how it goes.... 6378 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6376 
Topology and 2A3? 6376 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6376 
Type Casting 6376 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6376 
6sn7-2a3 6376 
Topology vs parts 6376 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6376 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6376 
Parts Frenzy 6376 
Too many new sounds 6376 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6375 
New tubes 6374 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6374 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6374 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6374 
New 2A3 6374 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6373 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6372 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6372 
Czech tubes 6370 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6370 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6370 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6369 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6369 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6366 
Here she is. 6365 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6361 
New 2A3 tubes 6361 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6361 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6360 
Multistage DHT circuits 6359 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6358 
Emission Labs 2A3 6358 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6358 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6358 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6358 
The YO186 Strip Show 6358 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6357 
It will be interesting…. 6357 
OPT impedence 6357 
More about the Plate Loading 6357 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6352 
2A3 data 6352 
The New 2A3 tubes 6352 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6352 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6351 
Everything about everything. 6351 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6351 
Options, options, options.... 6351 
I think we agree overall 6351 
An IDHT with more gain? 6350 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6350 
2A3 tube impressions 6345 
Interesting analogy 6345 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6345 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6345 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6345 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6345 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6345 
Why NOS tubes? 6344 
The Holly Ignorance 6344 
Tube tasting 6344 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6344 
Make mine thoriated please 6344 
Any Germans out there? 6344 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6344 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6344 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6344 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6343 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6343 
Tube sound and vibration 6343 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6337 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6336 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6336 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6335 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6335 
B4/B5 British made 6334 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6334 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6333 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6333 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6332 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6331 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6328 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6328 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6327 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6327 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6327 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6327 
The identical operation environment? 6327 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6327 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6327 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6326 
How to get max power from 2A3 6326 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6326 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6326 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6326 
Gain is not power. 6326 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6326 
Specialized DSET approach 6326 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6326 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6326 
The 2A3 loading 6326 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6326 
Optimizing the 2A3 6326 
How much to DSET a DSET 6326 
DSET for Titan 6326 
The Best of All Worlds 6326 
Multiamp setup 6325 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6325 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6325 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6325 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6319 
2A3 and 400V supply 6319 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6318 
Another shot at numbers 6318 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6318 
Okay, so this might work.... 6318 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6318 
Looks good, but.... 6317 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6317 
Less is more... usually. 6317 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6316 
Stepping Out 6316 
Said to be good, but 6316 
Gain to lose 6316 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6316 
Another idea for losing gain 6316 
What's best 6316 
Options, options... 6316 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6316 
Other compromises... 6315 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6314 
Is it glowing yet? 6294 
It is comming.... 6294 
The new MF channel. 6288 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6287 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6279 
The intestage loading talk. 6276 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6271 
1 in 50? 6271 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6271 
Die Walküre soldering. 6270 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6269 
Another amp arond YO186 6268 
Gain? 6268 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6268 
Simple is good 6267 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6267 
The Milq DSET is up. 6266 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6264 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6264 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6263 
Ok, what do I want? 6263 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6263 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6263 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6263 
How about the tweeter? 6262 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6262 
Safe and Sound 6262 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6262 
Some clarifications. 6262 
How about that?!!! 6262 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6260 
Head Room 6260 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6259 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6259 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6259 
Again with the PS 6259 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6257 
Parallel Universe 6257 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6255 
Why I let other people build them... 6255 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6255 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6254 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6251 
MF: the pre-final version. 6251 
Loftin-White? 6251 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6251 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6251 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6247 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6247 
Define really quiet 6246 
Another variable of sound 6246 
Backlash? 6246 
Alternative filament supplies 6246 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6246 
Going down the DC path 6245 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6245 
Molecular sound 6245 
AC-DC heater supply 6245 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6245 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6245 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6245 
Hiss or Hum 6245 
AC transformers 6245 
I have seen the Promised Land 6244 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6244 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6243 
Divide and Conquer 6243 
The design phase is over. 6242 
The unexpected insanity! 6241 
Loading 6241 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6241 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6241 
Going the Distance 6241 
Read the f*** manual! 6241 
Agreed. 6241 
I agree 6241 
The filament transformer 6241 
Center-tap and options 6241 
Something like this…. 6241 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6241 
The foreplay is going on. 6241 
Split balance 6240 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6240 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6240 
SHuguang 6240 
Going through…. 6239 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6238 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6238 
Hum vs voltage 6238 
Meow about the tubes… 6238 
To Be a Content Cat 6238 
Completed! 6235 
Tradition 6235 
Absolutely beautiful! 6235 
The 'film' caps in PS 6234 
Science or religion 6234 
Mass Extinction 6234 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6234 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6234 
Capacitor choices 6234 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6233 
The minor day of Quartets. 6233 
Them's the Breaks 6233 
Eventually! 6232 
So Soon? 6232 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6232 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6231 
The wire for DC-coupling 6231 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6231 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6231 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6230 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6229 
The DHT live reserve 6228 
Some interestng models 6228 
Eaten alive. 6228 
The tubey déjà vu? 6227 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6223 
The 4V takes a lead. 6219 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6216 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6216 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6214 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6213 
Exiting the design mode? 6213 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6213 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6209 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6208 
Setting up the new Playback 6207 
And the winner is… so far 6204 
If you like type 45... 6204 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6204 
Favorite Flavor? 6204 
The 45 times Meow... 6204 
The problem that I see is… 6204 
Running the 45 6204 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6203 
The commentaries about everything. 6203 
Driver tube and biasing 6203 
DHT drivers 6203 
The ideas are worth trying? 6203 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6199 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6199 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6198 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6198 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6198 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6198 
Operating points and cathode current 6198 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6198 
Actually it is not so simple. 6198 
Resistors at the front 6197 
A minor alternation of a position 6197 
The era of enlightenment. 6194 
The devil is in the details.... 6194 
Constructing Sound 6194 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6193 
The “strange” YO186 6184 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6139 
2S4S and 2A3 6130 
Ho to use the YO186 6123 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6123 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6123 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6121 
Not anymore! 6110 
The very good YoYonisation! 6109 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6108 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 6095 
DHT, YO186, or??? 6095 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 6042 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 6041 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 6038 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 6028 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5790 
All the Best from Burgundy 5790 
Cheesy tubes 5789 
Me and my DHT references… 5680 
Y0-186 in winter. 5583 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5582 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5551 
In My Dreams 5551 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5551 
Blame? 5550 
When good is not good enough. 5550 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5550 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5549 
How the YO186 was used. 5133 
What is old is new? 5132 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5131 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4680 
That sucks. 4680 
YO186 4678 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4678 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4678 
A hallucination? 4675 
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