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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Planning my DSET
Post Subject: Of course I am putting the cart before the horse...Posted by anthony on: 6/2/2015
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 Romy the Cat wrote:

However, if I did it again then I would not do it in context of multi-channel amplifier but rather I would make a maket amplifier able would test my ideas with it. 


While I do like the idea of experimenting with MF sounds and then building just one DHT into the final Milq, I think that it may take me some time to decide between the YO186 and 45 types of sounds, especially as I tune a foreign to me system to my preferences.  
 
 Romy the Cat wrote:
You see, the problem is that the “best” MF amplifier for you will be NOT the best amplifier but rather the best amp that would feet into the schema of your demands and the capacities of the rest of your channels. It is VERY hard to estimate what would it be, not to mention that your audio expectation might be a moving target and most likely will be recompiled after the first revision of you project will be over. 


Yes I am sure that you are correct about about the MF amplifier having to play properly with the other channels.  I am also quite sure that my audio expectations will be to some extent a moving target when I start to listen and tune the channels and understand what they are capable of contributing.  Hopefully I can make it all work to my satisfaction.
 
 Romy the Cat wrote:
I would not be advising you about the use of 10Y as I do not have proven experience with this tube. My short and environmentally not-kosher experiments with this tube did show great potential but it was a bit wrong direction to me. The 10Y was super clean tube, kind of aka Type 45 only even “cleaner”. I however was not looking for this cleanneness in my MF but rather I was looking for a lot of distortion but very specific type of distortion. The under-voltaged YO186 gave it to me, but I would never accept that same under-voltaged sound for a good full-range amplifier.


I am often drawn to the super-clean sound which is largely why the 10Y interests me, but I have embarked on this Macondo/Melquiades project because I think that overall the system gives me many methods to get the sounds that I want.  Although I do enjoy classical music, I do not limit myself to that genre alone plus I have two quite musical young children that will want to listen to all kinds of music as they grow up.  If the YO186, or some other "distorting" tube manages to strike me as it has you, then I think that a "clean" tube may also still be in order as the kids explore other genres.  So what I think I will do is build your MF channel as shown in the schematic, but leave room in the power supply to add a couple of more voltages so that if I feel the need down the track that I can go with the 10Y, or perhaps even a DHT driver, or both. 

Thanks for your help so far Romy.

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