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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6383 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6382 
DHT Milq? 6382 
The DHT journey. 6382 
DHT tone 6382 
Well, why not? 6381 
Holding the Fort 6381 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6381 
Input tube and DC heaters 6380 
Reimyo Pat 777 6380 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6376 
DHT or 300B? 6376 
300B 6376 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6376 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6375 
Hence the confusion 6375 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6375 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6375 
My experience with DHTs 6375 
Pigmented coloration? 6375 
Dht-dht 6375 
Dynamic viscosity? 6375 
The Pallette preamp... 6375 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6375 
"soul" of tubes 6375 
There is a difference... 6375 
Vibration injection? 6375 
Homework # 4334 6375 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6375 
Old valves have more soul! 6374 
Was it soul or soil? 6374 
It was just a heading 6374 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6374 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6374 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6374 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6374 
Injection of analog dither? 6374 
Subliminal signal 6374 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6374 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6374 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6373 
Avicenna = Arabian 6373 
Persian, not Arab 6373 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6373 
More words to describe "sux" please 6373 
Revolution 6373 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6373 
One-stage DHTs 6372 
One other thing 6372 
One stage 6372 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6372 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6372 
I see the things differently. 6372 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6372 
The audiophile attitude 6372 
The where and why of design choices 6372 
Blah blah blah 6372 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6372 
Do I need to be hissing? 6372 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6372 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6372 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6371 
What is randomness? 6371 
Those least three possibilities… 6371 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6371 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6371 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6369 
A Beautiful Mind 6368 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6366 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6351 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6351 
Abandoning Milq? 6351 
Will see how it goes.... 6351 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6349 
Topology and 2A3? 6349 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6349 
Type Casting 6349 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6349 
6sn7-2a3 6349 
Topology vs parts 6349 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6349 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6349 
Parts Frenzy 6349 
Too many new sounds 6349 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6348 
New tubes 6347 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6347 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6347 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6347 
New 2A3 6347 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6346 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6345 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6345 
Czech tubes 6343 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6343 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6343 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6342 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6342 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6339 
Here she is. 6338 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6334 
New 2A3 tubes 6334 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6334 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6333 
Multistage DHT circuits 6332 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6331 
Emission Labs 2A3 6331 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6331 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6331 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6331 
The YO186 Strip Show 6331 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6330 
It will be interesting…. 6330 
OPT impedence 6330 
More about the Plate Loading 6330 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6325 
2A3 data 6325 
The New 2A3 tubes 6325 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6325 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6324 
Everything about everything. 6324 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6324 
Options, options, options.... 6324 
I think we agree overall 6324 
An IDHT with more gain? 6323 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6323 
2A3 tube impressions 6318 
Interesting analogy 6318 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6318 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6318 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6318 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6318 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6318 
Why NOS tubes? 6317 
The Holly Ignorance 6317 
Tube tasting 6317 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6317 
Make mine thoriated please 6317 
Any Germans out there? 6317 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6317 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6317 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6317 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6316 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6316 
Tube sound and vibration 6316 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6310 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6309 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6309 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6308 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6308 
B4/B5 British made 6307 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6307 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6306 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6306 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6305 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6304 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6301 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6301 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6300 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6300 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6300 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6300 
The identical operation environment? 6300 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6300 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6300 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6299 
How to get max power from 2A3 6299 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6299 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6299 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6299 
Gain is not power. 6299 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6299 
Specialized DSET approach 6299 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6299 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6299 
The 2A3 loading 6299 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6299 
Optimizing the 2A3 6299 
How much to DSET a DSET 6299 
DSET for Titan 6299 
The Best of All Worlds 6299 
Multiamp setup 6298 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6298 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6298 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6298 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6292 
2A3 and 400V supply 6292 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6291 
Another shot at numbers 6291 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6291 
Okay, so this might work.... 6291 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6291 
Looks good, but.... 6290 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6290 
Less is more... usually. 6290 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6289 
Stepping Out 6289 
Said to be good, but 6289 
Gain to lose 6289 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6289 
Another idea for losing gain 6289 
What's best 6289 
Options, options... 6289 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6289 
Other compromises... 6288 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6287 
Is it glowing yet? 6267 
It is comming.... 6267 
The new MF channel. 6261 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6260 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6252 
The intestage loading talk. 6249 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6244 
1 in 50? 6244 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6244 
Die Walküre soldering. 6243 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6242 
Another amp arond YO186 6241 
Gain? 6241 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6241 
Simple is good 6240 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6240 
The Milq DSET is up. 6239 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6237 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6237 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6236 
Ok, what do I want? 6236 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6236 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6236 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6236 
How about the tweeter? 6235 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6235 
Safe and Sound 6235 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6235 
Some clarifications. 6235 
How about that?!!! 6235 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6233 
Head Room 6233 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6232 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6232 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6232 
Again with the PS 6232 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6230 
Parallel Universe 6230 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6228 
Why I let other people build them... 6228 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6228 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6227 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6224 
MF: the pre-final version. 6224 
Loftin-White? 6224 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6224 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6224 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6220 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6220 
Define really quiet 6219 
Another variable of sound 6219 
Backlash? 6219 
Alternative filament supplies 6219 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6219 
Going down the DC path 6218 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6218 
Molecular sound 6218 
AC-DC heater supply 6218 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6218 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6218 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6218 
Hiss or Hum 6218 
AC transformers 6218 
I have seen the Promised Land 6217 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6217 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6216 
Divide and Conquer 6216 
The design phase is over. 6215 
The unexpected insanity! 6214 
Loading 6214 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6214 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6214 
Going the Distance 6214 
Read the f*** manual! 6214 
Agreed. 6214 
I agree 6214 
The filament transformer 6214 
Center-tap and options 6214 
Something like this…. 6214 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6214 
The foreplay is going on. 6214 
Split balance 6213 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6213 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6213 
SHuguang 6213 
Going through…. 6212 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6211 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6211 
Hum vs voltage 6211 
Meow about the tubes… 6211 
To Be a Content Cat 6211 
Completed! 6208 
Tradition 6208 
Absolutely beautiful! 6208 
The 'film' caps in PS 6207 
Science or religion 6207 
Mass Extinction 6207 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6207 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6207 
Capacitor choices 6207 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6206 
The minor day of Quartets. 6206 
Them's the Breaks 6206 
Eventually! 6205 
So Soon? 6205 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6205 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6204 
The wire for DC-coupling 6204 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6204 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6204 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6203 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6202 
The DHT live reserve 6201 
Some interestng models 6201 
Eaten alive. 6201 
The tubey déjà vu? 6200 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6196 
The 4V takes a lead. 6192 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6189 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6189 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6187 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6186 
Exiting the design mode? 6186 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6186 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6182 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6181 
Setting up the new Playback 6180 
And the winner is… so far 6177 
If you like type 45... 6177 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6177 
Favorite Flavor? 6177 
The 45 times Meow... 6177 
The problem that I see is… 6177 
Running the 45 6177 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6176 
The commentaries about everything. 6176 
Driver tube and biasing 6176 
DHT drivers 6176 
The ideas are worth trying? 6176 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6172 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6172 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6171 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6171 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6171 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6171 
Operating points and cathode current 6171 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6171 
Actually it is not so simple. 6171 
Resistors at the front 6170 
A minor alternation of a position 6170 
The era of enlightenment. 6167 
The devil is in the details.... 6167 
Constructing Sound 6167 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6166 
The “strange” YO186 6157 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6112 
2S4S and 2A3 6103 
Ho to use the YO186 6096 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6096 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6096 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6094 
Not anymore! 6083 
The very good YoYonisation! 6082 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6081 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 6068 
DHT, YO186, or??? 6068 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 6015 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 6014 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 6011 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 6001 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5763 
All the Best from Burgundy 5763 
Cheesy tubes 5762 
Me and my DHT references… 5653 
Y0-186 in winter. 5556 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5555 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5524 
In My Dreams 5524 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5524 
Blame? 5523 
When good is not good enough. 5523 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5523 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5522 
How the YO186 was used. 5106 
What is old is new? 5105 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5104 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4653 
That sucks. 4653 
YO186 4651 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4651 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4651 
A hallucination? 4648 
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