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Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6322 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6321 
DHT Milq? 6321 
The DHT journey. 6321 
DHT tone 6321 
Well, why not? 6320 
Holding the Fort 6320 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6320 
Input tube and DC heaters 6319 
Reimyo Pat 777 6319 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6315 
DHT or 300B? 6315 
300B 6315 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6315 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6314 
Hence the confusion 6314 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6314 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6314 
My experience with DHTs 6314 
Pigmented coloration? 6314 
Dht-dht 6314 
Dynamic viscosity? 6314 
The Pallette preamp... 6314 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6314 
"soul" of tubes 6314 
There is a difference... 6314 
Vibration injection? 6314 
Homework # 4334 6314 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6314 
Old valves have more soul! 6313 
Was it soul or soil? 6313 
It was just a heading 6313 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6313 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6313 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6313 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6313 
Injection of analog dither? 6313 
Subliminal signal 6313 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6313 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6313 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6312 
Avicenna = Arabian 6312 
Persian, not Arab 6312 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6312 
More words to describe "sux" please 6312 
Revolution 6312 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6312 
One-stage DHTs 6311 
One other thing 6311 
One stage 6311 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6311 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6311 
I see the things differently. 6311 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6311 
The audiophile attitude 6311 
The where and why of design choices 6311 
Blah blah blah 6311 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6311 
Do I need to be hissing? 6311 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6311 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6311 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6310 
What is randomness? 6310 
Those least three possibilities… 6310 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6310 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6310 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6308 
A Beautiful Mind 6307 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6305 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6290 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6290 
Abandoning Milq? 6290 
Will see how it goes.... 6290 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6288 
Topology and 2A3? 6288 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6288 
Type Casting 6288 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6288 
6sn7-2a3 6288 
Topology vs parts 6288 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6288 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6288 
Parts Frenzy 6288 
Too many new sounds 6288 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6287 
New tubes 6286 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6286 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6286 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6286 
New 2A3 6286 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6285 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6284 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6284 
Czech tubes 6282 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6282 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6282 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6281 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6281 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6278 
Here she is. 6277 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6273 
New 2A3 tubes 6273 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6273 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6272 
Multistage DHT circuits 6271 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6270 
Emission Labs 2A3 6270 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6270 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6270 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6270 
The YO186 Strip Show 6270 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6269 
It will be interesting…. 6269 
OPT impedence 6269 
More about the Plate Loading 6269 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6264 
2A3 data 6264 
The New 2A3 tubes 6264 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6264 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6263 
Everything about everything. 6263 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6263 
Options, options, options.... 6263 
I think we agree overall 6263 
An IDHT with more gain? 6262 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6262 
2A3 tube impressions 6257 
Interesting analogy 6257 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6257 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6257 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6257 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6257 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6257 
Why NOS tubes? 6256 
The Holly Ignorance 6256 
Tube tasting 6256 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6256 
Make mine thoriated please 6256 
Any Germans out there? 6256 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6256 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6256 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6256 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6255 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6255 
Tube sound and vibration 6255 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6249 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6248 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6248 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6247 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6247 
B4/B5 British made 6246 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6246 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6245 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6245 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6244 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6243 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6240 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6240 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6239 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6239 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6239 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6239 
The identical operation environment? 6239 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6239 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6239 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6238 
How to get max power from 2A3 6238 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6238 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6238 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6238 
Gain is not power. 6238 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6238 
Specialized DSET approach 6238 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6238 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6238 
The 2A3 loading 6238 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6238 
Optimizing the 2A3 6238 
How much to DSET a DSET 6238 
DSET for Titan 6238 
The Best of All Worlds 6238 
Multiamp setup 6237 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6237 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6237 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6237 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6231 
2A3 and 400V supply 6231 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6230 
Another shot at numbers 6230 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6230 
Okay, so this might work.... 6230 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6230 
Looks good, but.... 6229 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6229 
Less is more... usually. 6229 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6228 
Stepping Out 6228 
Said to be good, but 6228 
Gain to lose 6228 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6228 
Another idea for losing gain 6228 
What's best 6228 
Options, options... 6228 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6228 
Other compromises... 6227 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6226 
Is it glowing yet? 6206 
It is comming.... 6206 
The new MF channel. 6200 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6199 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6191 
The intestage loading talk. 6188 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6183 
1 in 50? 6183 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6183 
Die Walküre soldering. 6182 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6181 
Another amp arond YO186 6180 
Gain? 6180 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6180 
Simple is good 6179 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6179 
The Milq DSET is up. 6178 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6176 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6176 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6175 
Ok, what do I want? 6175 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6175 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6175 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6175 
How about the tweeter? 6174 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6174 
Safe and Sound 6174 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6174 
Some clarifications. 6174 
How about that?!!! 6174 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6172 
Head Room 6172 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6171 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6171 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6171 
Again with the PS 6171 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6169 
Parallel Universe 6169 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6167 
Why I let other people build them... 6167 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6167 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6166 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6163 
MF: the pre-final version. 6163 
Loftin-White? 6163 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6163 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6163 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6159 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6159 
Define really quiet 6158 
Another variable of sound 6158 
Backlash? 6158 
Alternative filament supplies 6158 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6158 
Going down the DC path 6157 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6157 
Molecular sound 6157 
AC-DC heater supply 6157 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6157 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6157 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6157 
Hiss or Hum 6157 
AC transformers 6157 
I have seen the Promised Land 6156 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6156 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6155 
Divide and Conquer 6155 
The design phase is over. 6154 
The unexpected insanity! 6153 
Loading 6153 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6153 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6153 
Going the Distance 6153 
Read the f*** manual! 6153 
Agreed. 6153 
I agree 6153 
The filament transformer 6153 
Center-tap and options 6153 
Something like this…. 6153 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6153 
The foreplay is going on. 6153 
Split balance 6152 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6152 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6152 
SHuguang 6152 
Going through…. 6151 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6150 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6150 
Hum vs voltage 6150 
Meow about the tubes… 6150 
To Be a Content Cat 6150 
Completed! 6147 
Tradition 6147 
Absolutely beautiful! 6147 
The 'film' caps in PS 6146 
Science or religion 6146 
Mass Extinction 6146 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6146 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6146 
Capacitor choices 6146 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6145 
The minor day of Quartets. 6145 
Them's the Breaks 6145 
Eventually! 6144 
So Soon? 6144 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6144 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6143 
The wire for DC-coupling 6143 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6143 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6143 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6142 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6141 
The DHT live reserve 6140 
Some interestng models 6140 
Eaten alive. 6140 
The tubey déjà vu? 6139 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6135 
The 4V takes a lead. 6131 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6128 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6128 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6126 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6125 
Exiting the design mode? 6125 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6125 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6121 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6120 
Setting up the new Playback 6119 
And the winner is… so far 6116 
If you like type 45... 6116 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6116 
Favorite Flavor? 6116 
The 45 times Meow... 6116 
The problem that I see is… 6116 
Running the 45 6116 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6115 
The commentaries about everything. 6115 
Driver tube and biasing 6115 
DHT drivers 6115 
The ideas are worth trying? 6115 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6111 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6111 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6110 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6110 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6110 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6110 
Operating points and cathode current 6110 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6110 
Actually it is not so simple. 6110 
Resistors at the front 6109 
A minor alternation of a position 6109 
The era of enlightenment. 6106 
The devil is in the details.... 6106 
Constructing Sound 6106 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6105 
The “strange” YO186 6096 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6051 
2S4S and 2A3 6042 
Ho to use the YO186 6035 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6035 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6035 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6033 
Not anymore! 6022 
The very good YoYonisation! 6021 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6020 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 6007 
DHT, YO186, or??? 6007 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 5954 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 5953 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 5950 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 5940 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5702 
All the Best from Burgundy 5702 
Cheesy tubes 5701 
Me and my DHT references… 5592 
Y0-186 in winter. 5495 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5494 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5463 
In My Dreams 5463 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5463 
Blame? 5462 
When good is not good enough. 5462 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5462 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5461 
How the YO186 was used. 5045 
What is old is new? 5044 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5043 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4592 
That sucks. 4592 
YO186 4590 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4590 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4590 
A hallucination? 4587 
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