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It is it, I eventual got what I was striving for a while and now my MF DHT channel is done and the most important is that it now sounds exactly how I need it to sound. The new 25:1 loading turned out to be the key. It is “fast” enough and I did not play with distribution of gap – it is good as is.

I call it a “few steps back” solution because it is how I used my S2 driver before I went for single stage. Before I used a half of 6C33C loaded to 1150R, which is very-very light for that tube. I know very well the sound of under-loaded S2 and it was pretty much how I used it since 2002. Then I went for damping S2 with plate, ending with 550R load and with 15:1 on the 6E5P plate. Now with DHT and 25:1 I somewhere near my 1100R on ½ of 6C33C and – boy this driver sings again.

With today configuration the “bright” and “bold” DHT tube are hardly useable – the single-plate Chinese tubes, some version of 2A3 and Valvo LK460 for instance are too brutal and too amusical. However the softer sounding 2A3, the 45 with plate of 1.7K and my 4V tubes are singing like canary – the very direct hit.

Actually my YO186 and Telefunken RE604 and Klangfilm KL71403 do the very best in the new configuration. The Telefunken and Klangfilm need one and a half dB less help from tweeter the YO186 needs 1.5 more but even with no tweeter they do amazingly pleasant and VERY VERY different. I matched a pair of YO186 and when I first time put them with both channels and the full system it was just an amassing gratification. It is not the go things and not the “my playback” complex – with the YO186 my playback do sound differently… I just went over a deep 2 hours listening meditation, thinking about this new sound, listing a few CDs of ….Jimmy Scott. I know, it is not my music but I always liked him and it is very interesting to see how the bottom region of YO186 handles the Jimmy Scott’s unique phrasing. The simplicity of Jimmy Scott is a great help in what I was interested to hear and boy – you need to see what YO186 did with Scott’s inimitable articulation!

Anyhow, it is fan in here and I am planning on this weekend my becoming ritual ceremony of trashing my Weller solder station. Since the 2002 it will be the third one….

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