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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Planning my DSET

Post Subject: Interesting but….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/31/2015

Generally I like it but I have some concerns, whatever rubber feet and decompiles you will be using you will not defeat the vibration if you have a few transformers and a few 500A input chose sitting at the bottom. You will take a statoscope and you will clearly have the vibration on the tube floor. Well, you will have noise on the tube floor but how will affect sound is very hard to say. A common sense would suggest that you should not have any vibration in there, and in particularly because you use very fast and relatedly microphoneic tubes (when they cold) in driver stage. But in reality it is not so simple and I have seen when vibrated control unit sounding more stage then fully isolated. Still, I would go for fully isolated control unit (tube floor).

The biggest concern that I have if you have a single chasses with PS at the bottom is that your caps at the mid floor is that your caps, like the rest of your components inside will be greatly over heated. The transformer and choke will be getting hot and your entire amp will be a basic chimney with hit-sensitive caps in the middle. I think it is one more argument to put PS to a separate chasses. You still cat stack the PS and control unit one above another, in the way how I did it:

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&postID=2715#2715

…but this way you might have more effective heat and vibration decupling. You will be going over the hell of dealing with connecting cables but you might outsource it and order the connectors and cables to be made for you.

anthony wrote:
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