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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Staxquiades project

Post Subject: 300BleePosted by N-set on: 9/25/2012

Thank you Romy! Actually I've realized that when I wrote it I rather ment dynamical stability then
frying the outputs. But in proper PP the even order harmonics are strongly surpressed, so
there should be no or very little change of the output OP due to the amplified signal.

Romy the Cat wrote:
driving way more expensive and hard to get tube then 300B

I'd actually never consider 300B--I don't like it's "smokey" character (also I've heard only few specimens
with it and long time ago). But I was looking for a triode able to give substancial voltage swing,
comparable with that of El34 triode connected and surprisingly 300B gives it (on paper).
No idea of the quality of this quantity, but just for a comaprison I've included 300B in my list.
I'd actually be much more interested in hearing 842. Although it gives only a bit more than a half of
300B/EL34 swing (800Vpp vs. 1400Vpp), the simulated FFT spectrum (if it has any connection to the Sound...)
looks very clean.

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