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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6045 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6044 
DHT Milq? 6044 
The DHT journey. 6044 
DHT tone 6044 
Well, why not? 6043 
Holding the Fort 6043 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6043 
Input tube and DC heaters 6042 
Reimyo Pat 777 6042 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6038 
DHT or 300B? 6038 
300B 6038 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6038 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6037 
Hence the confusion 6037 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6037 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6037 
My experience with DHTs 6037 
Pigmented coloration? 6037 
Dht-dht 6037 
Dynamic viscosity? 6037 
The Pallette preamp... 6037 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6037 
"soul" of tubes 6037 
There is a difference... 6037 
Vibration injection? 6037 
Homework # 4334 6037 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6037 
Old valves have more soul! 6036 
Was it soul or soil? 6036 
It was just a heading 6036 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6036 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6036 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6036 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6036 
Injection of analog dither? 6036 
Subliminal signal 6036 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6036 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6036 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6035 
Avicenna = Arabian 6035 
Persian, not Arab 6035 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6035 
More words to describe "sux" please 6035 
Revolution 6035 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6035 
One-stage DHTs 6034 
One other thing 6034 
One stage 6034 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6034 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6034 
I see the things differently. 6034 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6034 
The audiophile attitude 6034 
The where and why of design choices 6034 
Blah blah blah 6034 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6034 
Do I need to be hissing? 6034 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6034 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6034 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6033 
What is randomness? 6033 
Those least three possibilities… 6033 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6033 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6033 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6031 
A Beautiful Mind 6030 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6028 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6013 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6013 
Abandoning Milq? 6013 
Will see how it goes.... 6013 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6011 
Topology and 2A3? 6011 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6011 
Type Casting 6011 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6011 
6sn7-2a3 6011 
Topology vs parts 6011 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6011 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6011 
Parts Frenzy 6011 
Too many new sounds 6011 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6010 
New tubes 6009 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6009 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6009 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6009 
New 2A3 6009 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6008 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6007 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6007 
Czech tubes 6005 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6005 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6005 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6004 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6004 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6001 
Here she is. 6000 
Some talks about the new production tubes 5996 
New 2A3 tubes 5996 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 5996 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 5995 
Multistage DHT circuits 5994 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 5993 
Emission Labs 2A3 5993 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 5993 
Which Chinese 2A3? 5993 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 5993 
The YO186 Strip Show 5993 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 5992 
It will be interesting…. 5992 
OPT impedence 5992 
More about the Plate Loading 5992 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 5987 
2A3 data 5987 
The New 2A3 tubes 5987 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 5987 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 5986 
Everything about everything. 5986 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 5986 
Options, options, options.... 5986 
I think we agree overall 5986 
An IDHT with more gain? 5985 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 5985 
2A3 tube impressions 5980 
Interesting analogy 5980 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 5980 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 5980 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 5980 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 5980 
I have more interest in the period tubes 5980 
Why NOS tubes? 5979 
The Holly Ignorance 5979 
Tube tasting 5979 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 5979 
Make mine thoriated please 5979 
Any Germans out there? 5979 
6E5P VS 6E6P 5979 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 5979 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 5979 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 5978 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 5978 
Tube sound and vibration 5978 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 5972 
The lights look green for the YO tube 5971 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 5971 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 5970 
The YO186 tube sockets. 5970 
B4/B5 British made 5969 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 5969 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 5968 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 5968 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 5967 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 5966 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 5963 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 5963 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 5962 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 5962 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 5962 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 5962 
The identical operation environment? 5962 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 5962 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 5962 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 5961 
How to get max power from 2A3 5961 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 5961 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 5961 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 5961 
Gain is not power. 5961 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 5961 
Specialized DSET approach 5961 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 5961 
SET usable power and making the most of it 5961 
The 2A3 loading 5961 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 5961 
Optimizing the 2A3 5961 
How much to DSET a DSET 5961 
DSET for Titan 5961 
The Best of All Worlds 5961 
Multiamp setup 5960 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 5960 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 5960 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 5960 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 5954 
2A3 and 400V supply 5954 
Pudding and the chicken wires 5953 
Another shot at numbers 5953 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 5953 
Okay, so this might work.... 5953 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 5953 
Looks good, but.... 5952 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 5952 
Less is more... usually. 5952 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 5951 
Stepping Out 5951 
Said to be good, but 5951 
Gain to lose 5951 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 5951 
Another idea for losing gain 5951 
What's best 5951 
Options, options... 5951 
Actually, it is not so bad. 5951 
Other compromises... 5950 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 5949 
Is it glowing yet? 5929 
It is comming.... 5929 
The new MF channel. 5923 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 5922 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 5914 
The intestage loading talk. 5911 
My playback feels like it is broken. 5906 
1 in 50? 5906 
Yes, it was after PP2000 5906 
Die Walküre soldering. 5905 
The post Die Walküre soldering 5904 
Another amp arond YO186 5903 
Gain? 5903 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 5903 
Simple is good 5902 
Ok, I am moving forward. 5902 
The Milq DSET is up. 5901 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 5899 
Here is more data to reconcile. 5899 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 5898 
Ok, what do I want? 5898 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 5898 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 5898 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 5898 
How about the tweeter? 5897 
Tweeter Efficiency? 5897 
Safe and Sound 5897 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 5897 
Some clarifications. 5897 
How about that?!!! 5897 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 5895 
Head Room 5895 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 5894 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 5894 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 5894 
Again with the PS 5894 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 5892 
Parallel Universe 5892 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 5890 
Why I let other people build them... 5890 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 5890 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 5889 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 5886 
MF: the pre-final version. 5886 
Loftin-White? 5886 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 5886 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 5886 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 5882 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 5882 
Define really quiet 5881 
Another variable of sound 5881 
Backlash? 5881 
Alternative filament supplies 5881 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 5881 
Going down the DC path 5880 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 5880 
Molecular sound 5880 
AC-DC heater supply 5880 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 5880 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 5880 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 5880 
Hiss or Hum 5880 
AC transformers 5880 
I have seen the Promised Land 5879 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 5879 
Ok, it is working fine but… 5878 
Divide and Conquer 5878 
The design phase is over. 5877 
The unexpected insanity! 5876 
Loading 5876 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 5876 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 5876 
Going the Distance 5876 
Read the f*** manual! 5876 
Agreed. 5876 
I agree 5876 
The filament transformer 5876 
Center-tap and options 5876 
Something like this…. 5876 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 5876 
The foreplay is going on. 5876 
Split balance 5875 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 5875 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 5875 
SHuguang 5875 
Going through…. 5874 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 5873 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 5873 
Hum vs voltage 5873 
Meow about the tubes… 5873 
To Be a Content Cat 5873 
Completed! 5870 
Tradition 5870 
Absolutely beautiful! 5870 
The 'film' caps in PS 5869 
Science or religion 5869 
Mass Extinction 5869 
Electrolytics, technology and time 5869 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 5869 
Capacitor choices 5869 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 5868 
The minor day of Quartets. 5868 
Them's the Breaks 5868 
Eventually! 5867 
So Soon? 5867 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 5867 
All Abuzz about Nothing 5866 
The wire for DC-coupling 5866 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 5866 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 5866 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 5865 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 5864 
The DHT live reserve 5863 
Some interestng models 5863 
Eaten alive. 5863 
The tubey déjà vu? 5862 
The new concept of my output transformer. 5858 
The 4V takes a lead. 5854 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 5851 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 5851 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 5849 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 5848 
Exiting the design mode? 5848 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 5848 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 5844 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 5843 
Setting up the new Playback 5842 
And the winner is… so far 5839 
If you like type 45... 5839 
Type 45... they're not all the same 5839 
Favorite Flavor? 5839 
The 45 times Meow... 5839 
The problem that I see is… 5839 
Running the 45 5839 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 5838 
The commentaries about everything. 5838 
Driver tube and biasing 5838 
DHT drivers 5838 
The ideas are worth trying? 5838 
A question about the polishing the things…. 5834 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 5834 
Driving the 45... cathode first 5833 
ST or Globe; old or new... 5833 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 5833 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 5833 
Operating points and cathode current 5833 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 5833 
Actually it is not so simple. 5833 
Resistors at the front 5832 
A minor alternation of a position 5832 
The era of enlightenment. 5829 
The devil is in the details.... 5829 
Constructing Sound 5829 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 5828 
The “strange” YO186 5819 
The dead guy’s lessons. 5774 
2S4S and 2A3 5765 
Ho to use the YO186 5758 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 5758 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 5758 
The live without the YO186, again.... 5756 
Not anymore! 5745 
The very good YoYonisation! 5744 
….above and below two very clean channel. 5743 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 5730 
DHT, YO186, or??? 5730 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 5677 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 5676 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 5673 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 5663 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5425 
All the Best from Burgundy 5425 
Cheesy tubes 5424 
Me and my DHT references… 5315 
Y0-186 in winter. 5218 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5217 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5186 
In My Dreams 5186 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5186 
Blame? 5185 
When good is not good enough. 5185 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5185 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5184 
How the YO186 was used. 4768 
What is old is new? 4767 
YO186 vs. type 45. 4766 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4315 
That sucks. 4315 
YO186 4313 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4313 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4313 
A hallucination? 4310 
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