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Brad, I heard a KR years ago, only remember it was not the typical "no-feedback sound", which I think of as clear but flaccid and no push. I agree that "feedback" can eventually ruin bass, and more, as I mentioned earlier in connectio...
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What speakers are your using? The “4R at about 80 Hz before going back up their average 8 Ohms at 30 Hz” is not good for SETs. I prefer to have 16R and do not let it to drop below 12R. Lamm is quite fixable with loading, probably because ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]If this is the case, then the Morons will effectively have less rather than more power unless they are more careful than usual to match the loads, which seems like the opposite of "what the Market demands". Cranking up the NOS 1...
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Thanks for the rejoinder, including the corrections and tips, Romy.I well remember Lamm saying that we should junk our ML2s now because the parts are "worn out". While that does not cause me to think he does not know what he is doing it natural...
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Reading at my site Paul’s narrative about his fight with ML2’s tube and the ML2’s tube sockets I need to confess that I always was suspecting that he is some kind of odd wacko with bizarre and sick approach to the subject of amplifier tubing. Too muc...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I also wonder about the supposedly simple but ever mysterious procedure for matching 6C33Cs for gain. Presently, my amps are ~ 2 dB apart.[/quote]To do gain matching we need a way to measure gain. To be precise, we need to measu...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]To simplify everything: the Melquiades was at attempt to make two stages, capacitor coupled, no feedback SET, having the cathodes sitting on ground and using the unique 6E5P as a driver. My selection of output tube was beca...
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Hi Romy,I am very interested in what you have found out about the 6C33C tube lifetime because I am using a pair of Silvaweld OTL tube reference (their name for them not mine) amps that use 4 x 6C33C-b tubes per monoblock (so a total of 8). Thes...
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Lamm uses Russian ceramic sockets, at least use to use them 10 yeas back. What he uses not I have no idea. The material of sockets is not as important – the profile of contact is the key. Unfortunately Russian sockets use triangular contact that make...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Are you suggesting : 1) Running the upper bass horn from a second ML2 ? 2) Running the lower bass enclosures (sealed boxes) from a second ML2 ? 3) Running both the upper bass horn and lower bass enclosures (sealed boxes) ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Yesterday a nice fellow drove off with "my" Lamm ML2s. Now it is really sinking in: How will will I find anything else this good, along with more power?These amps were like a PhD in sound, what might be done with hi-fi. Yes, I ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Scrolling down to the images of the Lamm ML2.2, I see something that intrigues me...
Four ML2.2s are used to bi-amp the Verity Audio speakers; I didn't know they could be daisy chained by using both the XLR and RC...
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[quote user="AnonymousUser"] Sorry for the delay but my computer is down! I would like you to tell me squarely why your amp sounds to your ears better than the lamms tenors and the likes! what is if you prefer the impact of yur driver stage compared ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] One did; in reviewing the L2 preamp, John Atkinson (Stereophile) wrote:"...The absolute polarity was preserved from both sets of outputs with the front-panel switch set to "0 degrees," confirming that the XLR jacks ar...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Tax what are you willing to accomplish by DSETing Avantgarde Duo? As far as I can see in any playback action and decisions it shall be a straight line of sight to some kind of objectives. What objective you have in your min...
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I always was kind of afraid of it. Any single zillion years tube I see is “NOS in box”, “measured as new” or “never work”. So, I wonder where those uses up old tubes are gone? Do people trash them or juts sell them “as new”. As many old tubes I ever ...
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This thread is split from the following thread:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=2665
Jessie, I hope you do not mind that I pulled it to the forum explicitly dedicated to the Melquiades Support.
5-channels Melquiades is ...
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Romy and Paul,Thank you for your help and comments. I decided to move the amp on the floor and on its side so as to be able to monitor it during operation. As it had worked for 10 minutes after replacing the fuse, I was confident nothing sh...
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Lots has been written already about tube replacement, but I want to mention my recent experience when replacing the 6C33C output tubes (V2). I had the previous tubes in for only about 1 year; in this case I estimate about 300 hours, althou...
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I never knew that Quicksilver does 6C33C, they never did when I was still monitoring what companies do. Their Triode Amp was, if I remember correctly, a base PP unit with a pair triode strapped 6L6/KT-88 tubes, where people were trying to put-in many...
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[quote user="el`Ol"]Here is the link:http://www.rank-concept.deI have no experience with the Lamm ML-series, I just listened to an M-series hybrid amp combined with the Watt/Puppy 8. This performance was a single fake (though a pleasant one). I can´t...
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I see, what they did – the built a perfect sealed chimney with two fans to suck cold air in and two fans to suck hot air out. Well, it might work, even though I do like this idea. I absolutely do not see why such a hot and large tube as 6C33C sha...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, the problem is not with Ken Chait or Lamm owners but in the totally foolish expectations that 6C33C might be matched. Well, if you do burn the 6C33C for 50-60hours and do match it by gain, by bias and by currant the...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, you would probably know this: I would be interested to know if the ML2's 6AK5 tube is in any way related to feedback in the ML2, because I would guess that it is. If not, then, I'm wrong (again).[/quote]
Paul, ...
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Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3
What is important is to undusted that my view less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire class of amplifiers. When I to...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3
What is important is to undusted that my view less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire cla...
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.. and therefore I do not know how serious to take you.As far as I know as now there are no people who have built Melquiades. I know that up to now about 5 attempts to do it but no one finished it yet up to the point that might report result. Dima is...
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It is interesting: I am running now Zarathustra amp with my woofer towers, line-level crossed at 90Hz with fist order. Everything is very fine bass-wise, with very minute touch of dominating smoothness. To my surprise the typical upper-bass har...
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Only that a higher price may allow the constructor to get away fm the annoyingly ubiquitous "made to meet a price point" and push his design to his limits...Romy notes:[quote]I approach to the subject from a perspective of the OPPORTUNITIES THAT ML3 ...
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I always was kind of afraid of it. Any single zillion years tube I see is “NOS in box”, “measured as new” or “never work”. So, I wonder where those uses up old tubes are gone? Do people trash them or juts sell them “as n...
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